|
Literature Review Tools, Note-Taking Strategies and AI tutorials for the modern academic. Publish more with less effort and supercharge your career.
Moving From MS Word Notes to Obsidian Dear Reader, Many academics have been taking digital notes for years, even before spectacular tools like Obsidian existed. From various surveys, I know that many of you have dozens of notes stored as Word documents, Apple Notes, or Microsoft's OneNote. As a subscriber of this newsletter, you might also know that switching from a collection of notes (e.g. MS Word, Apple Notes, OneNote) to a knowledge Network (e.g., Obsidian) unlocks numerous "superpowers"....
Setting up AI Agents in Obsidian Dear Reader, Over the last few days, I showed you what AI agents can do for your research, how the system is built from five simple components, and how it saved my PhD defence. But does that work for you? Before building the AI Agents for Academics Course, I surveyed 73 academics on their hopes for AI and designed the course to meet these goals. First Question: What would you like AI to handle? The "Other" category had more unique answers like "preparing...
Setting up AI Agents in Obsidian Dear Reader, Yesterday I showed you a video demonstrating how powerful AI agents are when you set them up well (click here if you missed it) and give them (restricted) access to your notes and papers. Today, let’s talk about exactly how this system is built. It has five components. Implementing them correctly is like making a wheel round, absolutely essential for its frictionless function. Let me explain in this video from the new AI Agents for Academics...