Useful tools for academic work

Last updated Nov 7, 2022 Edit Source

• Github Pro
  • Free for students.
  • Private repositories.

• Angry Reviewer + Gives feedback on formalities when writing for academic publishing.
• Grammarly
  • Grammar checking utility.
  • Supports British and American English.
  • Allows setting the writing style and purpose.
• LanguageTool
  • A good competitor to Grammarly.
• Overleaf
  • Official hosting or self-hosted
  • Remember to use NTNU account to get a premium account
• TeXLive
  • Offline LaTeX compiler and typesetter.
  • Allows for a swift workflow.
  • Requires some setup.
  • Local workflows can be synchronized to Overleaf with ,e.g., a GitHub repository.

• Obsidian
  • Create your own vault and share parts of it with other colleagues that are working on the same topic.
  • Jacob Tørring has a few tips on setup and plugins on his website
  • Syncthing is good to synchronize notes between machines.

• Zotero
  • (incl Firefox plugin)
  • and Overleaf synchronization
  • Obsidian and Zotero integration
    • https://www.marianamontes.me/post/obsidian-and-zotero/
    • https://medium.com/@alexandraphelan/an-academic-workflow-zotero-obsidian-56bf918d51ab

Would be interesting to combine PDF annotation in Okular or something similar from Zotero database and export the notes to Obsidian.