Literature Review Tools, Note-Taking Strategies and AI tutorials for the modern academic. Publish more with less effort and supercharge your career.
20 Free Tutorials to Become an Effortless Academic
The Effortless Academic
Literature Review Tools, Note-Taking Strategies and AI tutorials for the modern academic. Publish more with less effort and supercharge your career.
Obsidian Update & Lit Review Webinar Dear Reader, Obsidian had a few updates this month that I think will delight anyone already using the tool, especially academics. Here's what else this week's newsletter is about EA Tutorial: Obsidian 1.14 update on coloured highlights and academic bases. Free recording from my Litmaps webinar last week: The detective mindset for literature reviews. Three stories across the world: AI bias, conferences overrun by AI papers and the troubles of synthesising...
Lit Review Tools Comparison & Free Webinar Dear Reader, In this newsletter, you are going to learn about the Consensus MCP, which became the backbone of my academic AI. It allows your ChatGPT/Claude/LLM to reliably search for papers and interpret the results. You can have it search for papers 100s of times within minutes and run fine-tuned literature reviews or critical paper-backed reviews of your paper's claims. A video of one use case is included. I am also experimenting with a new AI...
Lit Review Tools Comparison & Free Webinar Dear Reader, This week I am exploring a slightly different format for this newsletter. My goals are (1) to make it more personal, and (2) to be about more than just EffortlessAcademic. Let me know what you think and which parts you like by replying! In the last few weeks, I have been absorbed in two deep paper revisions and experimenting with how I can use my notes, my code/data and AI to help me design experiments, code, and review the literature to...