To me the OG of graph-exploration tools for research.
Hunting up and down the citation tree is incredibly tedious work if you do it with lists – Connected Papers makes this much, much easier.
It is really wild to see that ~2500 people have now taken my @RoamResearch courses.
About 1000 people have taken my completely free course "Roam in Context", and about 1500 people have taken my academia-focused course "Cite to Write".
@RoamResearch You can get Roam in Context, where I take you through the basics of Roam from six different perspectives (Note-taking, Research & Academia, Task Management, Project Management, Journaling, Decision Making) completely free here: learn.cortexfutura.com/p/roam-in-cont…
@RoamResearch If you're interested in a full, feature-packed course that takes you through the complete academic process using @RoamResearch, you might want to check out Cite to Write.
Also great for anyone generally into doing rigorous reading and learning.
Time management based on our usual units of time is broken.
Here's a new system that I have developed that has changed how I work forever.
It's cycles all the way down.
🧵👇
The Nano Cycle (30 min)
The smallest useful unit of time.
Easy to scope your work, with a bit of practice.
Easy to evaluate whether you got that work actually done.
If you get derailed, you lose 30min max before the next check-in point and chance to reset.
The Micro Cycle (2h)
Fits four Nano Cycles in theory, in practice three turn out to be better:
10 minutes at the start to plan, two 5-minute breaks between Nano Cycles, 10 minutes at the end to debrief what worked and what didn't.