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.
Using Kindle/eBook highlights in Obsidian Dear Reader, Do you use e-books rather than PDFs in your academic or personal work? I do, and if I don't take notes, the memory of books lasts only about 6 months. That's a waste! A better way I developed over the last couple of years, is to import the book highlights into Obsidian. But stored highlights are just information. To go from information → knowledge, you need to connect the passages from the book with your own thinking. To help with this, I...
My First YouTube Video: PhD Story & System Dear Reader,Last week I recorded, animated and edited my first real YouTube video, which sums up everything you need to know to start using Obsidian efficiently for your research. Part 1: Obsidian for Academics in 15 minutes Part 2: Organising Ideas using the Source Topic Argument System Part 3: A live demo of how it works, which was the highlight of the last information management course. Despite my best efforts, it turned out to be 55 minutes long!...
Connecting Zotero and Claude Dear Reader,After talking to many of my colleagues, I realised that for most academics, AI is near synonymous with using ChatGPT in the browser. But in the last 6-12 months (since Claude Code and Codex were released), things have dramatically changed, to the point where I feel that using ChatGPT wouldn't even cover 10% of what I do with AI today (See the second block in this email, if you're intrigued). This all started a few months ago, when the co-founder of...