Noodle Tools

NoodleTools

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NoodleTools is a citation and research organizer available to all Campbell Students. It offers a number of helpful features, including:

• Digital note-taking tools to capture research notes and quotations (and keep up with their sources)

• Research organization tools to sort your research and create outlines for your research projects

• A full-featured citation tool, featuring:

  • Easy citation import from numerous Cobb Digital Library databases

  • Easy citation creation for other databases, web pages, and book sources

  • Support for MLA, APA, and Chicago formats

  • Fully formatted bibliographies, exported to Google Docs, Microsoft Word, HTML, and other formats

Login Instructions

Click the button above or use the link in Cobb Digital Library to open NoodleTools
OR go directly to Noodletools.com, click Log In, then click Microsoft 365

Log in using your Microsoft 365 username and password.

Getting Started

Your friendly Campbell Commons library media specialists are happy to help you with NoodleTools, but here’s a little introduction to get you started:

Making the Most of NoodleTools Features

Manage your work

When you are ready to begin research, create a NoodleTools project. Add collaborators if you’re working with a group. Share your project with your teacher’s assignment inbox to allow them to view and give feedback on your source citations, notecards, outline, and file attachments.

Learn about NoodleTools projects.

Cite your sources

Generate accurate MLA, APA, or Chicago-style citations and format your in-text citations or footnotes. Use an ISBN number or DOI to import citation information for books, articles, and reports, or take advantage of our “Export to NoodleTools” database integrations to produce citations from their article metadata.

Learn about NoodleTools source citations.

Take notes and develop ideas

Make connections, develop original ideas and articulate arguments. Use our intuitive, visual “tabletop” to manipulate, tag and pile notecards, then connect them to topics in your outline to prepare for writing.

Learn about NoodleTools notecards.

(The section above was copied with permission from the NoodleTools Help page.)

Become a NoodleTools Expert:

Projects

• How to create a new project

• Projects Screen Explained (PDF)

Sources

• Sources Screen Explained (PDF)

• How to create and edit a source citation

  • How to copy and paste a preformatted citation

  • How to import a source reference from a Gale database

  • How to import a source citation from an EBSCO database

  • How to import a source citation from JSTOR.

• How to export and print source citations

Collecting Notes & Quotes

• How to create a NoodleTools notecard

  • What should I enter in the “Direct Quotation” field on a notecard?

  • What should I enter in the “Paraphrase/Summary” field on a notecard?

  • What should I enter in the “My Ideas” field on a notecard?

  • How to choose a good title for a notecard

  • How to link a notecard to a source citation

Organizing Notes & Quotes

• Notecard Tabletop View Explained (PDF)

  • How to group and organize notecards (Tabletop location, pages, piles, tags and colors)

  • How to create and merge notecard piles

  • How to pin or unpin a notecard or notecard pile in the Tabletop View

  • Why should I add tags to notecards?

• Notecard Detail View Explained (PDF)

• How to create an outline in Notecards View

Using Your Sources in a Paper

• How to export or print the outline

• How to export and print source citations

• How to generate an in-text citation when I use something from a notecard in my paper

For more information about using NoodleTools, check the Knowledge Base, or ask the Media Center staff.