Looks like the Connotea team is on the right track. Instead of trying to bolt something to insert references into word, they are trying to go straight to wave. We have blogged before about what a good integration between references and writing tools should look like, and quite honestly, Igor looks like it’s really getting [...]
In a previous episode, I suggested that productivity is really just an efficiency measure. Since the working currency for academics is arguably prestige, productive researchers are those that can acquire the most prestige for the least effort and this can be formally written as: where each task t is assigned a prestige benefit (pt per [...]
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May, 2007, we had a post on using an autocompleter to improve writing speed/save keystrokes. I recommended intellicomplete, even though it was abandonware even then. Moving to more modern OSs (I’m running windows server 2008 64-bit), it simply didn’t work anymore. Plus it never worked well with Firefox or thunderbird. Anyway, I’ve found a much [...]
Frankly, there are too many reference managers today. This is counterproductive because we all need to spend time checking the newcomers, just in case there’s a new feature that we were missing. Most reference managers graft themselves to word or to openOffice. For example, Mendeley, and zotero both use internal reference functionality in word. In [...]
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