PERRLA

[Merlin]

Has anyone here used PERRLA (www.perrla.com)? If so, do you recommend it?

For those unaware, it is an application, available as both an online service and a desktop app that integrates with MS Word, and helps students manage references, citations, and academic styling according to APA 6 or MLA 7/8. The online version also helps with research, outlining, and a bunch of other things.

While I consider myself pretty strong in my understanding of APA and MLA, and don't really find it that hard to manage my references or citations, Perrla is recommended as a "must have" for any grad student or anyone who is expected to write a lot of papers. Supposedly it makes things much easier than using the word tools (or leveraging a third-party citation generator manually).

I just signed up for a 30-day free trial for the online service (since the desktop app apparently doesn't work with Word 365 yet) and I'm going to use it to write my first MBA paper, but I'm curious if anyone else here uses it too? I see people chatting about it all the time on the WGU Facebook and Reddit sites, but I didn't know about it until recently.

Any thoughts?