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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
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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
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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
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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
Plugins for Becoming a Zotero Wizard
Watch now (9 min) | While I am not a huge fan of Zotero, 3 out of 5 academics use it. So I decided to make a deep dive into Zotero and its plugins.
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Ilya Shabanov
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My Visual Thinking Journey
Two years ago I decided to get a PhD in molecular biology – a big leap for a computer engineer. But how we deal with computers is universally…
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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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