How to get an AI research assistant

I made a video about the awesome tools available today that I wish I had during my PhD.

The link to the video is at the end of this thread, and here's what I cover:
Tool 1: @elicitorg

Elicit is magical.

You get a prompt, you ask it a question in natural language, and you get a list of papers in return.

But more than that: Elicit gives you the takeaway from the abstract AND it parses the paper for which outcomes was measured, which
@elicitorg intervention was used, and more.

You can filter, sort, and export to .bib and .csv – just extremely convenient and powerful.
@elicitorg Tool 2: @ConnectedPapers

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.
@elicitorg @ConnectedPapers Tool 3: @RsrchRabbit

Once you have a couple of papers from Elicit & ConnectedPapers, you put them into a collection in ResearchRabbit.

From there you'll get AI-powered further recommendations based on all the papers in the collection.

It's like having an on-call librarian.
@elicitorg @ConnectedPapers @RsrchRabbit As I said, I WISH all of these tools existed at the start of my PhD.

I'm so happy for everyone starting out now that they have them.

If you want to see them in action, watch the video below!
@elicitorg @ConnectedPapers @RsrchRabbit If you liked this thread, follow me @cortexfutura for more on knowledge management, #PKM, and Tools for Thought!

You can also check out my course Cite to Write, where I show you how to use @RoamResearch for...research! (Updated for RoamDepot soon!)
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Wherein I tell you how to use Twitter productively.

Three cool steps and one you won't like 😁
Step 1: Mute Words

I'm in Europe/Germany and I don't want my timeline to be full of US politics.

So I mute certain words, and in the video I'll show you how to do it for a calmer timeline.
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Twitter lists are awesome.

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I show you how in the video!
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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:
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I want to write a longer piece on luck for the newsletter, but before I do any research on this I want to pre-register my thoughts.

So...what do I think about luck?
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Positively perceived randomness, to a first approximation.

But it has to be more than that as well, because I pretty firmly believe that some people are more lucky than others.
At the same time, "luck" can be influenced:

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You can increase the "surface" on which luck can strike by increasing your exposure to (positive) random events.
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How can you increase the ROI of the work you do?
By capturing your "creative exhaust".

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In doing our jobs, we all create things to support that work – SOPs, templates, but also just expertise in doing that job.

These things are valuable!
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For example:
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The Cycles Protocol

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.
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Easy to scope your work, with a bit of practice.
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A thread on NASA's ADLR Framework for Lessons Learned 🧵👇
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ABSTRACT

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