Literature Review Tools, Note-Taking Strategies and AI tutorials for the modern academic. Publish more with less effort and supercharge your career.
Tool Review: Nested Knowledge for Systematic Literature Reviews
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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.
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...
New ChatGPT version with reasoning capabilities: o1 Dear Scholar, This week, OpenAI has released a new version of ChatGPT: o1. It is a step up from ChatGPT-4o (Who comes up with these names!?) in reasoning, math and coding, but it also comes at the drawback of being slower and more expensive. In today's post, I compare the two models for academics: The New Chat GPT update: o1 vs GPT-4o (12 min read) This article explains the differences and similarities between the two models and contains a...