You’ve got a couple of students who have the hunger, the drive to learn. What tools can you recommend to help them up their game? Have a listen.


Tools Mentioned

Anki
https://apps.ankiweb.net - free flashcard creation tool

Citation Machine
https://www.citationmachine.net - citation generator and more

Claude AI
https://claude.ai

Duolingo
https://www.duolingo.com

Elicit
https://elicit.com - Summarize research papers

Einblick
https://einblick.ai - chart generation

ExplainPaper
https://www.explainpaper.com - Upload paper, highlight text, and it explains stuff. Can customize explanations

Heuristica
https://heuristi.ca - mind mapping AI. Good for using to start out with topic or field

Litmaps
https://www.litmaps.com - create map/graph to read Lit reviews

NextNet
https://getnextnet.com - drug research

OpenRead
https://www.openread.academy/ - article searching

Perplexity
https://www.perplexity.ai

Perplexity
https://www.perplexity.ai

PikToChart
https://piktochart.com - creates infographics from text prompts

Powerdrill
https://powerdrill.ai - Uses your own data

Scispace
https://typeset.io - summarizing and reading includes conclusions

Stapleton, Andy
https://www.youtube.com/@DrAndyStapleton/videos - Teaching you the insider secrets of academia

Tavily
https://tavily.com - research agent creates research agent for a topic. Includes references and embeds links. Mainly for LLMs

Zavala
https://zavala.vincode.io/ - outlining tool (Mac only)

Zotero
https://www.zotero.org - research and citation tool

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