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Best Zotero Plugins for 2026 Dear Reader, Today's newsletter is dedicated to Zotero Plugins. Most academics have heard of Zotero or are using it actively. It's free and connects to almost any service out there. I personally use it more as a bridge to import/export papers. But if you have a large collection of Zotero papers, you can benefit a lot from its myriad of plugins for AI integration, automation, improved notes and many more. The top Plugins are: ZotMoov, Beaver, Notero, Better Notes,...
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!...