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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!...
Connecting Zotero and Claude Dear Reader,After talking to many of my colleagues, I realised that for most academics, AI is near synonymous with using ChatGPT in the browser. But in the last 6-12 months (since Claude Code and Codex were released), things have dramatically changed, to the point where I feel that using ChatGPT wouldn't even cover 10% of what I do with AI today (See the second block in this email, if you're intrigued). This all started a few months ago, when the co-founder of...
Building Complex Research Diagrams with AI Dear Reader,Having read so much content on AI and followed the news closely, I sense a shift in the collective enthusiasm for AI's transformative potential. From one angle, we start realising that the claims of AI's practical usefulness are overblown. An MIT study found that: Despite $30–40 billion in enterprise investment into GenAI, this report uncovers a surprising result in that 95% of organizations are getting zero return. From another angle,...