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Workshop: AI-powered Literature Review
Let's combine AI, conceptual notes and a "detective" approach into the most effortless literature review workflow yet. Here's how it works. Demo in…
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Ilya Shabanov
5 Indispensable AI Tools for Academics
AI has exploded this year and its hard to keep up with 1000s of projects going on. In this newsletter we are going to look at the top tested tools for…
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Ilya Shabanov
Adding AI to your Academic Workflow
ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, but it has issues. Let's learn how it works to avoid them and integrate it with our notes for the AI ready…
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Ilya Shabanov
The Effortless Academic's Manual
For most, academic success is a matter of talent. I don't think it's true. Good research skill can be learned, but universities focus on WHAT, not HOW…
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Ilya Shabanov
Spotting the Gap in the Literature
In the olden days you'd read through everything to find the gap. Today we can use a tool to find it by using just references and similarity. Apply this…
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Ilya Shabanov
The Effortless Literature Review
Literature review does not need to be time consuming or confusing. Effortlessly find literature, use AI to screen for relevance and "3-step-filtering…
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Ilya Shabanov
Creativity on autopilot
While structure is entirely predictable, multiple structured notes gain an emergent property: Creativity. Let's look into how to setup our notes so we…
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Ilya Shabanov
The Effortless Academic
The Effortless Academic
Learn to leverage modern information tools and systems to excel as a researcher or student. In-depth long format tutorials on how to do things better in academia: note taking, reference management, writing, publishing and visual thinking.
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