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Obsidian Update & Lit Review Webinar Dear Reader, Every so often, a topic comes up often enough in your replies that I know it is the next thing I have to make. Literature reviews were that topic, and I spent most of this week recording my second-ever real YouTube Video. It runs just under an hour, start to finish, with nothing left out. I am also preparing a webinar with AI expert Avi Staiman on Nov 22nd. It's free, so I hope to see you there! And lastly, EffortlessAcademic now offers...
Obsidian Update & Lit Review Webinar Dear Reader, Obsidian had a few updates this month that I think will delight anyone already using the tool, especially academics. Here's what else this week's newsletter is about EA Tutorial: Obsidian 1.14 update on coloured highlights and academic bases. Free recording from my Litmaps webinar last week: The detective mindset for literature reviews. Three stories across the world: AI bias, conferences overrun by AI papers and the troubles of synthesising...
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...