By: Graduate Student Knowledgebase
Literature Management Apps:
Zotero is free citation software that collects, manages, and cites research sources. It automatically updates itself periodically to work with new online sources and new bibliographic styles.
Mendeley is a free reference manager that can help you store, organize, note, share and cite references and research data.
Paperpile is a clean and simple reference manager that makes it easy to collect, organize, share, and cite your research papers.
EndNote is the reference manager that helps you save time formatting citations, so you can focus on your research.
Note: Check to see if your university offers a license for free.
Obsidian is the private and flexible note‑taking app that adapts to the way you think.
Note: Obsidian stores notes on your device so you can access them offline.
PDFexpert allows you to create, edit, and annotate PDFs.
Search Engine Apps:
Connected Papers is a great tool when you start a new research project. Starting from one relevant paper it shows you a graph of all related papers and their citations. This gives you a great overview of the relevant literature and how they are connected via citations.
Consensus is an AI search engine for research. You can ask for specific topics, related papers, etc. Great tool if you need some more citations in your paper or wanna get a better idea of relevant works.
Paper Parrot is a personalized research paper newsletter that sends you summaries of the latest papers based on your interest once a week. Pretty useful to keep up with new papers and not miss stuff that you otherwise might not see.
Research Planning Apps:
Notion is a single space where you can think, write, and plan.
Note: The app is free, but if you want premium features, its for a charge.
Todoist is the world's favorite task manager and to-do list app.
Note: The app is completely free and a good alternative to Notion.
Trello is a project management tool.
Writing Tool Apps:
Overleaf is the go-to web app for writing research papers or notes. You can collaborate with multiple people and everything is web-based version of LaTeX.
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