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Obsidian vs OneNote for Academic Work
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...
PlotStudio AI for Academic Data Analysis: In-Depth Review
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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...
Claude Skills for Academics (Beginner Guide, Part 2)
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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)
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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...
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....
Notion vs Obsidian: What’s the Best Note-Taking Tool for Research?
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...
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...
ResearchRabbit: 2026 Review for Researchers
ResearchRabbit is a literature discovery and review tool that helps you find papers based on the citation network. With a huge update in 2025, here's...
Paperpal AI: 2025 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...
SciSpace: 2026 Review for Researchers
SciSpace is among the most versatile tools for a literature review. It searches over 200 million articles and analyses each of them according to your...
Anara AI Review 2026: Literature Review Tool for Researchers
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Anara AI speeds up literature review by letting you analyse and cross-reference papers. In this review, we evaluate Anara and compare it to other tools...
Consensus AI: 2026 Review for Researchers
In-depth review of Consensus AI, a powerful research tool for searching scientific literature and extracting insights. Here's what sets Consensus apart from other AI tools...
Zotero vs Mendeley vs EndNote: Which reference manager is better in 2026?
With many popular reference managers, which one is for you, especially if you want the AI integration?...
Reversed Literature Review with Sourcely’s AI Semantic Search
While in a regular literature review you first search for papers, then read them, and finally create your manuscript, the reverse literature review does the...
NotebookLM Review: Best Features 2025 For Researchers
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Google's Notebook LM is a very valuable literature review companion with a generous set of features even in the free version. It can greatly help...
Using Liner’s AI Agents for Literature Review And Finding Research Gaps
Liner is a new type of AI tool that focuses on AI agents that solve specific issues in the academic workflow, such as generating hypotheses,...
Paperpal vs ChatGPT vs Grammarly: Which is Better for Academic Writing?
Three tools you have likely heard of for academic writing: PaperPal, ChatGPT, and Grammarly. This post explores which one is the best AI tool for...
GPT-5 and Academic Research: Automating Writing, Synthesizing, Peer Reviewing and Data Analysis with AI
GPT-5 is a major milestone for academics, because it excels at coding, writing, synthesizing, and even critically reviewing your manuscript. In this post, I test...
Sourcely – Find References with AI
Sourcely is an AI-powered Academic Assistant desgined to find academic sources relevant to your paper in seconds. In this post we will test it's features...
SciSpace Deep Review AI for Literature Reviews
- in AI, Tool Review
SciSpace Deep Review AI is one of the newest tools for literature reviews that autonomously analyzes 1000s of papers to answer your research question. In...
Julius AI Review: Academic Tool for Researchers
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Julius AI makes data analysis with visualisation easier for researchers. Here's how it works, a review of its accuracy and how it compares to ChatGPT....