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Literature Review Tools, Note-Taking Strategies and AI tutorials for the modern academic. Publish more with less effort and supercharge your career.
Sourcely.net (Sponsor) Your AI-powered academic search assistant, offering access to over 200 million papers. Sourcely finds papers matching an entire manuscript rather than a short query, providing scientific evidence for every sentence and enabling the so-called "reverse literature review": Write first, cite later. Discount Codes:Effortless40 (40% off annual)or Effortless20 (20% off monthly) Which Reference Manager To Choose For AI Dear Scholar, Reference Managers are the workhorses of...
Reverse Literature Review with Sourcely Dear Scholar, A literature review usually starts with finding relevant papers and reading them to write your manuscript. However, sometimes the reverse can be more powerful: Write up ideas first before searching for relevant literature. This week's newsletter shows you how to do this with sourcely and its freshly released deep search capabilities. But why, you might ask? In my own research, I have come up with a few examples when this workflow is handy:...
Google's AI tool for Academics and Students Dear Scholar, NotebookLM is a tool developed by Google and released about a year ago. It can process up to 300 PDFs and create mind maps, records, flashcards, quizzes, and even videos of your content. Ever since it was released in 2024, it has become one of my favourite tools for a literature review. In recent months, I have implemented major updates that I would like to dedicate this week's newsletter to. As a reader of this newsletter, you may...