Knowledge Management
This note is about knowledge-management systems and techniques.
Conceptual Approaches
Blair, Ann. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Paul, Annie Murphy. The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Sunstein, Cass R. Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don’t Want to Know. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020.
Note-Taking systems
PARA A system for organising any information Zettelcasten A system for taking notes by Nichlaus Luhmann Second Brain Notes on building a second brain system
Overviews
How genius are made: Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten and how to be creative and productive in thinking A video about the basic principles of note taking as the foundation of creative thinking.
Why Unread Books Are More Valuable than Read Ones Knowledge systems should support research and discovery, not serve as ornaments to enhance one's status.
Searching and Literature Review
This is a video about Google Scholar and particularly ResearchRabbit - a tool for searching through academic work.
How I use Research Rabbit for academic research - YouTube
Research Rabbit & Zotero Sync - YouTube
Consensus - Evidence-Based Answers, Faster, an engine for academic searches.
Lateral App, searching for content across multiple papers.
Litmaps, searching and mapping literature.
Paper Digest, focuses on technical subjects.
Elicit, search and summarize academic papers.
Searching as well as Integration, Reformatting, Summarization, Writing
ChatGPT as a search and integration tool plus a way to explore connections and directions quickly.
Incremental prompting and ChatGPT
Transcribing and organising using ChatGPT
Jenni AI, researching and writing papers. Can cite, integration with Zotero in plans.
HeyGPT, links ChatGPT to the Internet, files, etc.
Bing Chat can:
- summarize and rewrite disjointed text
- provide critical perspective on a topic or about a particular work
- create outlines for topics
Prompting
- GitHub - yokoffing/ChatGPT-Prompts: ChatGPT and Bing AI prompt curation
- Awesome ChatGPT Prompts
- Ultimate Bing AI Playbook: 15 Genius-Level Prompts REVEALED
AI and Zotero Integration
Zotero GPT ChatGPT plugin for Zotero