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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...
In-Depth Review of Liner: AI Agents for Every Part of the Academic Workflow Dear Scholar, AI agents are quickly evolving to become the next frontier in AI, as they can solve far more complex use cases than a simple large language model alone, even when supplemented with an academic database. (Check out the infographic below). This week, I am testing Liner, a tool that has been around for many years but just recently switched its focus to academic AI. Currently, Liner offers five AI agents for...
AI Literature Review Workflow in 2025 Dear Scholar, When I published my literature review workflow diagram, it garnered positive and negative reactions. Surprisingly, a lot of academics reject the idea that AI should be used in literature reviews because we as scientists will not be able to maintain our creativity or learn much. Here are some reactions: All of these criticisms come from senior academics with years of experience. For instance, the professor on the top left rejects AI-written...