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Your Research Workflow
Step 1
- Using pen and paper, tablet, or digital canvas tool, draw a map of your current research workflow. From the beginning of an idea to the final, published paper, what steps do you take?
Step 2
- Open Goblin.Tools to the "Magic ToDo."
- Add "conduct a literature review" and adjust the level of spiciness (more peppers will tell the tool to break the task down into more steps).
- Hit enter.
- Click the blue magic wand button.
Reflect & Consider
- Which steps in your research process are most time consuming? Most frustrating?
- Which components of your process are working? Which could use improvement?
How AI Tools Can Help with Information Discovery
- Spot seminal works and key papers fast
- Find relevant articles you may have missed
- Identify research gaps
- Visualize your current citation collection and find new, relevant citations
- Get a visual overview of a field
- Discover author networks
Time to Try!
- Start with Connected Papers (no account creation necessary), then try Research Rabbit or LitMaps.
- Make sure you have LibKey Nomad downloaded!
- Choose and use a citation manager (Zotero is the most interoperable with AI tools).
- Consider
- Using a new browser (Arc is functional and beautiful)
- Refining your personal knowledge management with a digital notetaking tool.
- Learning to write using mark down language, as well as learning hot keys for the tools you use most.
- Trying an e-Ink tablet for distraction free reading, annotating, and note taking experience.
- Also important!
- A file naming convention (YYYY-MM-DD)
- Regularly backing up your files, notes, PDFs
- Set up your Browzine account and add your favorite journals.
