If you're like me, you juggle a lot of research tools.
Even with great integrations and streamlined workflows, it can still feel tedious to jump between apps to find papers, keep track of work, and build out each part of a new research project.
Why do we bother? Because using specialised tools often gets the best results.
However, there's a new option now: we can build out a research project and accomplish several steps from one place:Liner Scholar.
Liner Scholar is an AI-powered research tool that offers a project-centred approach to research. It combines various AI features in one place: searching for papers, understanding subject material, analysing data, writing and editing. In this week's article, we break down how to build a new project using Liner's best features.
Even if you're pretty happy with your current set-up, you may still find some of their latest features pretty handy. Namely, the Research Tracer (pictured above), which is like a mashup of ResearchRabbit + ChatGPT to analyse how papers connect. It's really the only thing like it I've seen so far, and I'm curious to hear what you think of it.
About the Course: The Effortless Literature Review course is one of my most successful courses - it has been joined by 1000s of academics over the different webinars and iterations of it. Today, I am happy to announce an Update.
About the Update: The video is about a brand new Zotero plugin, which is by far the best AI integration I have seen in Zotero - A total game changer and a real gem. Think of combining Zotero, Google Scholar and ChatGPT into one perfectly integrated plugin.
The update is free if you already have the course (link).
Don't have the course yet? Here's what it's about:
A complete step-by-step system for running a literature review using the newest AI tools for discovering, synthesising, and understanding academic literature. The workflows combine the best available AI tools into an efficient workflow that dramatically reduces the time required for a lit review. (Plus free updates, as you see right now)
So, if you're short on time or struggling with lit reviews, check out the course!
I hope to see you there, and let me know in the comments what you think of the new tool.
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