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JotBot is an AI-powered note-taking assistant that will supercharge your writing.

It'll help you beat the writer's block, brainstorm ideas, take audio notes, and summarize videos lectures.

Here's how to use it:
Go to myjotbot(dot)com and click on "Start writing" to create an account.
JotBot gives you three options: New Document, New Generation, and Auto Note Taking.

Click on "New Document." This will open an word editor and a writing assistant for you.

If you are getting started on a writing project, ask the writing assistant to create an outline for you.

Once an outline is created, click on "Insert at cursor" and it will insert in the outline in your document.
Now that you have an outline, start writing.

As you write, the writing assistant will give you helpful suggestion to expand and further develop your ideas.

These suggestion will ensure you don't face the writer's block.
If you get stuck at some point, type ++ and JotBot will give you a suggestion to get you unstuck.

You may not find the suggestion to always accurate but they will get you unstuck.
My favorite feature of JotBot is the audio notes.

Click on "Auto Note Taking" and select "Live Notes."

Click on the "Start Listening" button and start talking about your project as if you are thinking out loud.

JotBot will transcribe what you are saying. It will also give you a neat summary of whatever rambling thoughts you had.

Now you can develop these ideas further.
If you have a video lecture or a YouTube video, JotBot can prepare notes for you.

Click on "Auto Note Taking" and select "Video Notes."

Upload your video or paste a YouTube link and click on "Generate Notes."

And JotBot will compile the notes for you along with timestamps.
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Apr 5
Finding relevant papers for literature review takes a lot of time and labor.

You can run visual searches from within Zotero to supercharge your literature — for free.

You can also do it with Mendeley and EndNote.

Here's how:
1. Go to github(dot)com/inciteful-xyz/inciteful-zotero-plugin

Scroll down a little and click on "Version 7 - latest release."

This will download an xpi file on your computer.
2. Open your Zotero desktop app.

Click on "Tools" and select "Plugins."

In the Plugins Manager, click on the Settings icon and select "Install Plugin From File."

Navigate to the xpi file you just download and add it.

Close the Plugin Manager.
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Apr 4
Biggest flaw of AI apps: hallucinations — fake references to papers that don't even exist.

Research Flow is a new app that solves this problem. It uses full text of papers to answer your questions.

Here's an overview of its features:
1. Go to rflow(dot)ai

Click on "Try for free" to sign up for a free account.
2. In the bottom-left of the search bar, you will three options: academic, web search, and text generation.

RFlow offers three models: Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek's latest version V3.

RFlow supports English, Chinese, and Korean.
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Mar 28
Google Scholar is useful, but it's stuck in the past.

Ai2 is building a new AI-powered search engine for researchers.

It looks for papers, follows citations, evaluates relevance, runs follow-up queries, and shows you only relevant papers — and it's free:
1. Go to paperfinder.allen(dot)ai/chat and sign up for a free account.

Type in your question and hit Enter/Return.

Ai2 will start a search. It will mimic a human researcher in looking up papers, and then evaluating/ranking them for relevance.
2. Once it's done, Ai2 will give you a list of papers.

Under every paper, it will show you if it's perfectly relevant, relevant, or somewhat relevant to your query.

It will also show you evidence of what makes a paper perferctly or somewhat relevant.
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Mar 28
NotebookLM is (probably) the best reading assistant for research papers.

It's free and you can use it to:

• Summarize papers
• Ask question about papers
• Prepare study guides
• Create mind maps
• Generate podcasts based on papers

And it's very easy to use:
1. Go to

Click on "Create new" and upload a paper.

NotebookLM will give you a summary of the paper. notebooklm.google.com
2. You can ask questions about the paper.

It will answer your question with reference to the contents of the paper.
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Mar 24
AI generates fake references to research papers that don't even exist.

Google is on course to solve this problem.

Gemini Deep Research generates well-researched articles with references to published sources.

And it's free!

Here's how to use it:
1. Open your Google Gemini and click on "Deep Research."

Type in your question. Gemini will understand your question and create a research plan based on the question.
2. You can edit the research plan.

Click on "Edit plan" and give Gemini additional instructions.

Gemini will revise the research plan.
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Mar 23
How to make mind maps for any research paper:

This will take you 5 minutes and you can do it for free. A mind map based on Mushtaq Bilal's paper, "Genre Communities."
1. Go to ChatGPT and upload the paper you want to make a mind map of.

Paste the prompt below and hit Enter/Return. ChatGPT will give you a code block. Copy it.

Prompt:
Act as an expert academic and go through this document very carefully and understand it as best as you can. Based on your understanding, build a mind map in which you organize the document hierarchically into main topics and subtopics.

Once you are done, write markmap.js code for the mind map with nodes organized hierarchically. The mind map should be visually appealing, easy to follow, and should make the document digestible. Don't give me anything other than the markmap.js code.
2. Go to markmap.js[.]org/repl

You will see two columns.

Delete whatever is in the left column and paste the code you copied from ChatGPT.

It will give you mind map. Download it.
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