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Setting up Notion for Academic collaboration
We’ve recently introduced Notion for collaboration within our research group. Notion is knowledge management system where you can develop and store content in pages, organized in a series of relational databases. To leverage Notion’s full capacity, it’s crucial to set … Continue reading
Notion for academic collaboration
Notion is a new knowledge management platform that can potentially revolutionise academic collaboration. It allows collaborating editing and organising the content into shared ‘databases’ such as publications, projects, classes, etc. Continue reading
Asana for academic collaboration
All my projects are in collaboration with other researchers. In the last year, I’ve been working with a tool that has revolutionised this collaboration: Asana. By now we’ve completed 3 publications and 3 research funding applications using Asana and currently working … Continue reading
Color-coding scrivenings in Scrivener
One of things that makes Scrivener such a joy to work with is being able to color code scrivenings. At a glance, you can immediately see the state of different parts of text and, if you’re using Scrivener for collaboration, … Continue reading
Sending files which are too large for e-mail
I have recently asked a colleague to share one of her publications with me. I did not hear from her, but after a week or so, while cleaning my @SaneLater box, I discovered an email sent by her from an unfamiliar address and … Continue reading
Responding to reviewer’s comments with Ulysses and TaskPaper
There is plenty of serious and humorous advice on how to deal with reviewers’ comments to your manuscripts submitted to peer review journals. This post is about two apps: Ulysses and TaskPaper that make this job less tedious and frustrating … Continue reading
It’s not Macs vs. PCs. It’s people vs. powerpoints
A meeting of an academic board. Ten people. Eight Macs. One PC. The PC is projecting PowerPoint bullet lists about academic excellence, technological innovation, and social transformation. The presenter reads to the audience what is displayed on the screen, line … Continue reading
Collaboration in academic writing: software and beyond
Unfortunately, collaboration in academic writing often causes frustration. Academics are used to think that co-authoring a manuscripts means emailing back and forth Microsoft Word documents with endless “Track Changes” and “Comments” layered on top of each other. Whereas writing is … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliographies, Collaboration, Writing
Tagged Byword, Dropbox, Microsoft Word, OmniOutliner, Papers, Scrivener
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Overcoming OmniFocus’ myopia: OmniOutliner and the yet-to-be-discovered academic planning software
One of the five things that should be kept out of OmniFocus are project plans. There are several good reasons for that. OmniFocus is designed to provide an unambiguous list of concrete things that both should and can be done … Continue reading
Academic workflows on a Mac 