Tools for academic writing

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Philosophy for choosing tools

• Appropriate tools for different "working modes"
• All-in-one vs single-purpose (+workflow)
• Simple to learn vs learning curve + accrued benefits

http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/sustainable-authorship-in-plain-text-using-pandoc-and-markdown

http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/writing-power-tools-text-editors/38940

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Tools

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Related lit

• Reference management: Zotero, Plugins for firefox, chrome, safari

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PDF management and notes

• Zotfile

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Writing

• Outlining: Workflowy

• Writing (+Markdown): Plain text (Typora)

http://verifyandrepair.com/04-11-2016/writing-workflow-2016-markdown-environment/

http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/markdown-the-syntax-you-probably-already-know/35295

Math with Latex!

• Version control: github

Github private repos for education: https://github.com/blog/1840-improving-github-for-science

• Review: Google Docs

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Typesetting and publishing

• Citations: pandoc + bibtex

better bibtex for zotero: https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex

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Presentations

• Markdown + Marp (or Remark)

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