ResearchPal is a new app designed especially for academic writing.
It has a built-in search engine. You can look up papers, save them to your library, and extract key insights.
It can also help you with literature review and drafting your paper.
Here's how to use it:
Go to researchpal(dot)co and sign up for a free account.
Once you have logged in, click on "Projects" and create a new project.
Open the project you just created. ResearchPal will give you a list of tools in the left taskbar.
Click on "Library" and upload papers relevant to your project. At the moment, ResearchPal only lets you upload papers one by one.
It also has Zotero and Mendeley integrations but I didn't find them very helpful. Mendeley integration didn't work for me. And it retrieved only a few articles from my Zotero library.
Maybe folks at ResearchPal will improve these integrations in the future.
ResearchPal has a built-in search function, which is really helpful.
It's like having Google Scholar inside your MS Word.
Click on "Search Papers" and type in keywords related to your project.
While the idea of a built-in search function is great, it needs some work. I looked up "world literature david damrosch" and it included irrelevant papers on neural networks.
That said, having a search function is awesome.
ResearchPal also lets you save relevant articles. Click on the "Save" button to do so.
All your saved articles and those in your library will show up in the "References" tab. This is very convenient.
Another great functionality ResearchPal provides is it lets you extract insights from papers in your library.
Select a few papers in your library and click on "Add to Paper Insights." ResearchPal will give summaries of the articles.
You can add several additional columns too like Conclusions, Results, Literature Survey, etc.
This can help you go through key insights of a lot of papers very quickly. You can use this feature to figure out papers that are most relevant to your project.
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Presentations — every academic has to give them and nobody likes preparing them.
ChatGPT can help you prepare a presentation in minutes. This will save you a lot of time and labor.
Here's how to do it:
1. Open ChatGPT. Click on the paper clip icon in the chat bar and upload the material that you want to present.
Here I am uploading a draft of a paper that I am working on.
Once uploaded, use the following prompt.
This is a draft of my article. I have to give a presentation based on this article. Please summarize this article for a 10-slide presentation with headings and subheadings.
ChatGPT will summarize the draft with headings and subheadings.
2. Next, you will need to enable the Slide Maker plugin.
Click on your profile photo in the bottom-left corner and select "Settings & Beta." Go to Beat Features and enable Plugins.
Click on ChatGPT4 in the top-left corner and select Plugins.
Open the Plugin store and look a plugin called "Slide Maker." Install the plugin.