Author Archives: Jeff Pooley

About Jeff Pooley

Jeff Pooley is associate professor of media & communication at Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, PA.

Custom Academic Searches on iOS

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Jeff Pooley

As a follow-up to my earlier post on academic searches on the Mac, here’s an easy way to replicate most of those custom searches on iOS. The key app is Drafts, which recently received a massive update. Among many other … Continue reading →

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Custom Academic Searches on LaunchBar

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Jeff Pooley

Application launchers like Alfred and LaunchBar are Swiss Army knives of software, but to take full advantage of their flexible power you really need to tweak and customize their settings. The apps aren’t designed for academics, but because they’re so … Continue reading →

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Searchable PDF annotations: Automating conversion to Skim notes

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Jeff Pooley

Many academics now read journal articles on screen, as PDF files. Holdouts—and they are everywhere—print out forest-sized stacks of paper that teeter on crowded desks. Freedom from clutter is just one advantage of digital reading. Another is searchability: a large … Continue reading →

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Mind-Mapping on Mac and iOS: MindNode and iCloud

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Jeff Pooley

For a few discrete tasks—short bursts of writing, for example, or annotating PDFs—it makes sense to loop iOS devices into a Mac-based workflow. Finally we can add mind-mapping to the list, now that MindNode syncs through iCloud. MindNode Pro, the … Continue reading →

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