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Thanks for sharing, Jonas! Relatedly, I liked My current AI toolkit by Thomas Manandhar-Richardson (Richie).
Some tools I think you should know if you don't already
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Thanks for sharing, Jonas! Relatedly, I liked My current AI toolkit by Thomas Manandhar-Richardson (Richie).
Thanks for sharing your list. Several of these are new to me, and look useful.
I want to second the recommendation for Everything. It is much faster and easier than the built-in search function on a Windows computer, and it also allows for a variety of parameters to the search. If I want to quickly list out all the files I have related to a particular topic, Everything is what I use. As a simple example "Documents\Docs to Read\" !pdf market|promo would search for files within the Docs to Read folder that have either market or pomo in the title (which would capture marketing and promotion), excluding and PDFs. You can even use regular expressions.
I also want to second the recommendation for Libby for free, legal access to audiobooks and digital books through public libraries.
Side note: beeper will kill the e2e encryption for any messaging platforms you trust. It looks like a good tool for everything but signal for me personally!
I was not aware - thanks for this!
The utility still outweighs my non-existent privacy concerns but it's good to know
Same, I love it as well. Though my Facebook connection is broken and will likely never be fully repaired. I can remain logged in until I send a picture, then the connection breaks. And I keep forgetting. I've talked with the support team about it and it seems quite hopeless.
Thanks for sharing! Another great tool for group scheduling is https://schej.it/. Best user interface imo :)
Huh, didn't expect my first post to be this, but here we are..
Please share your own favorite tools in the comments and give suggestions - I will update sporadically!
(also let me know if there are versions of the things I suggest which you think are better)
Some are basic. Some are new & neat. Most also have an app. I use many of them on a weekly or even daily basis. Here we go!
Allows people to book a time in your schedule without having to go back and forth suggesting dates. Such a mental energy saver! (but beware of setting your availability well and make sure Calendly checks for conflict with your other events)
super fast (as opposed to my windows search!) and simple to use
I know several EA's who use it.
Very simple, you jump on when it suits you, mark how much time you're working for, and it will match you with someone. You quickly say hi, what you're working on - and get to it. At the end you do a quick check-in with how it went - and boom, you were hopefully less useless!
There's also an EA co-working Discord: https://discord.gg/T5K4kJV8
He runs ICanStudy, which as far as I can tell is the best, most comprehensive and evidence-based learning system there exists.
He also runs a Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@JustinSung Where he shares most of his knowledge. I highly recommend his stuff on mindmaps for notetaking
If you're at uni I highly recommend checking him out on Youtube and making the decision whether to try out his program (30 day money back)
My EA co-organizer just shared this with me, and it's what sparked me to actually start writing this - my very first - post (thanks @Johannes Rothe!)
It's pretty cool. I can see many uses of it already
If you still use Powerpoint - don't. IMO Canva is /way better/ and you should at least try it out
https://wetransfer.com/ - for sending larger files (up to 2GB). Can be both as link or send to someone's mail
Seriously. They are so rich with awesome stuff and so underutilized.
(Also did you know that you can ask librarians to help you do research or find sources/materials? They are trained in these things!)
(especially if you have darker skin) Lots of research on it. look it up yourself; I'm lazy.
I have been through a few productivity apps before (primarily Todoist) and recently came upon Clickup, which just does it better IMO.
I'm only sharing because you can get it for free if you want. I'm not much fan of that style of meditation myself, but much of the content is still good.
https://app.wakingup.com/scholarship
Hope any were helpful, much love!
Thanks for the list! Napkin AI is particularly cool.
Your LibGen link isn't working for me. Its Wikipedia page usually has live (& safe) links in the infobox. Same for Sci-Hub.
One recent service I've found is Readwise. It's similar to Pocket/Instapaper in adding web-pages to read later, but you can also upload your own EPUB and PDFs.