BibTex and Word Documents
Via Academic Productivity, I’ve been looking for this forever: BibTex4Word is an add-in for Microsoft Word that allows the citation of references from a BibTex database. BibTex4Word will insert a...
View ArticleTwitter as Courseware
David Silver is using Twitter in his media studies classes (check out the amazing “Eating San Francisco”). Twitter is the class’ main mode of communication, and he writes that Twitter has replaced...
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Citation Searching in Google Scholar
One of my favorite features in Google Scholar is its “cited by” function. Cited by allows you to see all of the items in Google Scholar that cite the pulbication you were searching for. In comparison...
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Managing Literature Alerts with Gmail
If you research an emerging topic, it is likely that you use some form of literature alert. If you’re unfamiliar with literature alerts, they are notifications provided by publishers and digital...
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Use Amazon Wishlists to Manage Your Library Lists
Here’s a simple tip for managing your library lists: try Amazon Wishlists. If you’re a researcher or a heavy reader, you know the problem with your library lists: they grow constantly, they spread out...
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Amazon to Google Booksearch in one click
Google Booksearch is becoming one of my go-to scholarly resources. All of the evilness aside, it is extremely useful to be able to look up a chapter or section from a book (even if that book is on the...
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Announcing Freedom for Windows
I’m very pleased to announce that Freedom, my internet-blocking productivity software, is now available for Windows! Over the past two years, countless people have written to me, asking if there is a...
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Announcing Anti-Social
I’m happy to announce my newest productivity software: Anti-Social. Anti-Social is a neat little productivity application for Macs that turns off the social parts of the internet. When Anti-Social is...
View ArticleSmaller, better, slower
On the O’Reilly Radar Blog, Linda Stone posted an interesting expansion on comments in the recent Economist article featuring Freedom. Stone had been bearish on the general idea of Freedom and its...
View ArticleFreedom for the New Year
The new year is off to a great start with a flurry of press coverage for both Freedom and Anti-Social. The coverage started with Pico Iyer’s wonderful New York Times piece, The Joy of Quiet. Iyer’s...
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