An MCP Connector is a tool, which allows an AI to use a specific service or website. The key mindset shift in using them efficiently…
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Move your Microsoft Word or Google Docs notes into Obsidian with Pandoc. This guide shows how to batch-convert documents to Markdown on macOS and Windows,…
Comparing Obsidian vs OneNote for academic note-taking, from organisation and plugins to file ownership and workflows. Plus, learn how to migrate your OneNote notebooks into…
Discover an updated list of the best Zotero plugins for 2026. From AI research assistants and advanced note-taking tools to metadata cleanup, attachment management and…
Three methods to get your Kindle highlights into Obsidian and my workflow to use them for building your knowledge with some help of AI.
Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, posted a workflow that went viral in academic circles: let an LLM build and maintain a personal wiki out of…
Research mind maps are the ultimate tool to understand the complex domain of your research and synthesize large areas of knowledge. They also lend themselves…
Give Claude access to your entire Zotero library, including full-text PDFs to search, annotate, and extract ideas. And this is done through a so-called MCP…
This article presents a workflow for taking notes on physical books, which uses a mobile phone to snap pictures and a few templates and plugins…
PlotStudio AI is an AI-powered data analysis tool built for academics and students who want to explore their data and generate publication-ready figures with less…
This article explores ways how you can make sure that all your notes in a large Obsidian vault have the same properties by using templates,…
Getting things done is the product of two efforts: prioritizing and strategizing. Fail to do one or two, and you are either overwhelmed or procrastinating.…
AI enables a new way of approaching your literature review. Rather than starting by reading papers, you can start by understanding concepts extracted by AI…
Obsidian is the most powerful tool an academic can use but has a steep learning curve. Here’s an absolute beginner tutorial on how you can…
In this tutorial, you’re going to learn what cloud skills are, how to create them, how to download skills from others, and two use cases…
First part of the tutorial series on how to use Claude code for academics. Part 1 is about setting up claude code and understanding how…
Learn how to accelerate key steps of a literature review using Consensus. In this in-depth review, we cover how to find literature, analyse your research…
Using AI as baking bread: small changes to the process can make the difference between top-notch quality and a complete failure. In this article, we…
Which is the best lit review tool for researchers? We review Litmaps vs ResearchRabbit vs Connected Papers and find out.
This article dives into how to best organize meeting notes for your professional life using Obsidian Spaces. Spaces allow you to identify all meetings related…
Notion and Obsidian are popular note-taking tools, but which is better when it comes to managing academic projects, thesis writing and building a research knowledge…
Liner is an AI research tool with a variety of features to help throughout the different stages of a research project: finding papers, exploring their…
The best way to connect Zotero to Obsidian is a plugin called Zotlit. This article explores exactly how to customize it, set it up, and…