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Category: AI
How to Use Consensus MCP with AI Agents for Academic Research
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...
The Best AI Tools for Literature Review in 2026
- in AI, Literature Review
Compare the best AI literature review tools in 2026, including Litmaps, Consensus, SciSpace, Elicit, Gemini Notebook, Anara, and more. See which tools work best for...
The Best Zotero Plugins for 2026
- in AI, Literature Review
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...
Import and Turn Kindle/ePub Highlights into Knowledge with Obsidian and AI
- in AI, Note Taking
Three methods to get your Kindle highlights into Obsidian and my workflow to use them for building your knowledge with some help of AI....
Synthesis and Research Gaps With Mindmaps and AI
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...
PlotStudio AI for Academic Data Analysis: In-Depth Review
- in AI, Tool Review
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...
Concept-Based Literature Review With Obsidian and AI
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...
Claude Skills for Academics (Beginner Guide, Part 2)
- in AI, Tool Review
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...
Claude Code and CoWork for Academics (Beginner Guide, Part 1)
- in AI, Tool Review
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...
Consensus AI Review 2026: 3 Powerful Uses For Faster Literature Reviews
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...
Top 10 Mistakes of Academic Writing with AI
- in Academic Writing, AI
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...
Litmaps vs ResearchRabbit vs Connected Papers: Best Lit Review Tool 2026
Which is the best lit review tool for researchers? We review Litmaps vs ResearchRabbit vs Connected Papers and find out....
Manage Your Academic Research Project with Liner Scholar
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...
Jenni AI Review for Students and Researchers 2026
Jenni AI is a writing assistant designed to make the writing, editing and citation-hunting steps of research easier and more-integrated. It is a combination of...
Google Scholar Labs AI Review for Academics
Google Scholar Labs is the AI update for the popular Google Scholar search engine. It features a chat interface and provides answers based on source...
How to Use AI for Literature Review in 2026
ChatGPT has a bad reputation when it comes to finding literature. But, that's only if you use it wrong. In this workflow, we'll look at...
Obsidian AI Agent with the Google Gemini Scribe Plugin For Academics
- in AI, Note Taking
Gemini Scribe is one of the most powerful AI plug-ins for Obsidian at the moment. Not only can it search and answer questions regarding your...
Scite AI Review 2026: Literature Review Tool for Researchers
- in AI, Literature Review
Scite_ is an AI-powered tool designed to make finding and navigating literature easier. By breaking down citations based on whether they support, contradict or just...
Improve Your Academic Writing with AI Detectors
- in Academic Writing, AI
As researchers find a new balance with AI-assisted writing in their papers, it becomes important to consider how "AI" your writing sounds. Here we delve...
Capture Any Content to Obsidian with WebClipper + AI
- in AI, Note Taking
Obsidian Web Clipper is the official way to capture any information from the web into Obsidian. It is free, fast, and can replace expensive services...
Adding AI to your Obsidian Notes with SmartConnections and CoPilot
Obsidian is a powerful note-taking tool, but organizing a large collection of notes is difficult. Luckily AI can help through semantic search, AI driven chats...
Paperpal AI: 2026 Review for Researchers
Paperpal is an AI writing assistant trained on academic texts. It is a highly specialized AI built into MS Word to speed up and polish...