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Lit Review Tools Comparison & Free Webinar Dear Reader, In this newsletter, you are going to learn about the Consensus MCP, which became the backbone of my academic AI. It allows your ChatGPT/Claude/LLM to reliably search for papers and interpret the results. You can have it search for papers 100s of times within minutes and run fine-tuned literature reviews or critical paper-backed reviews of your paper's claims. A video of one use case is included. I am also experimenting with a new AI...
Lit Review Tools Comparison & Free Webinar Dear Reader, This week I am exploring a slightly different format for this newsletter. My goals are (1) to make it more personal, and (2) to be about more than just EffortlessAcademic. Let me know what you think and which parts you like by replying! In the last few weeks, I have been absorbed in two deep paper revisions and experimenting with how I can use my notes, my code/data and AI to help me design experiments, code, and review the literature to...
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"....