Literature Review Tools, Note-Taking Strategies and AI tutorials for the modern academic. Publish more with less effort and supercharge your career.
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The Effortless Academic
Literature Review Tools, Note-Taking Strategies and AI tutorials for the modern academic. Publish more with less effort and supercharge your career.
Deep Dive: Nested Knowledge for Systematic Literature Reviews Dear Scholar, Systematic Literature Reviews require a lot of organization, patience, and tedious database screening. AI search engines could not help here, as they do not meet the rigorous requirements of a systematic literature review. Nested Knowledge saw this problem and found a solution that automates tedium and uses AI smart This tool covers all the needs of systematic reviews: systematically finding papers, downloading them,...
Don't start your lit review with a question Dear Scholar, Whenever you look for advice on literature reviews, it always starts with defining either a question or a topic. But this is backwards since good questions can only come once you are substantially familiar with something. Instead, I suggest starting your literature review with an overview, drilling down to your niche, learning it intimately and then, as your last step, defining the question. This article explores one of the many topics...
Research Maps are the key to making new discoveries. Dear Scholar, The most frequent question people ask me during my literature review webinars is, "Have you tried tool X"? The answer is yes; I have tried almost every tool, but most of them are not mature enough and have not stood the test of time. While the tool is not as important as your ability to use it and your knowledge, a good tool can greatly speed up your literature review. This is what this week's email is about. In other news, I...