Tag: workflow
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BIP AI – AI for organisation and communication
In this workshop for the Blended Intensive Programme on AI in education and research, Antonio Lopes, Hugo Santos and I explore the transformative potential of integrating generative AI into personal and professional workflows for academics. Practical use cases demonstrate how AI can streamline tasks, from constructing lecture outlines to drafting emails. The workshop provides a…
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A trilogy of posts on using AI for academic articles
Earlier today I published a short series of posts on some ideas I had for using language models (e.g. ChatGPT and Claude) to help support academic writing. I didn’t plan to write a series of posts. I initially had the idea to test Claude’s capability as a peer reviewer, and as I was finishing up…
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Thinking in public: From note to publication – A conversation with David Nicholls
Towards the end of 2021 I recorded a conversation with David Nicholls.[1] I wanted to talk to Dave about his process for converting incoming information into the kinds of outputs that so many in the health professions community find valuable. We talked about how we both try to limit the information we’re exposed to, how we…
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Resource: An overview of note-taking workflow and tools from Ton Zijlstra
There are hundreds of resources on note-taking systems so don’t take this post as anything more than a collection that caught my attention. Once you go down the ‘zettelkasten’ or ‘digital garden’ rabbit holes, you may find that it takes a while to get out again. If you already have a sense of what the…
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Knowledge work and academic productivity
This is an introduction to a new project I’m starting where I think about, explore, and discuss ideas around workflow, process, and productivity as a knowledge worker. If being an academic is about using information to create value for others, then I don’t think that we have systematic processes that we can use to manage…
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Moving between consuming and creating: Thinking about workflow
I use Pocket a lot. It’s not unusual for me to have more than 500 articles saved to read later, which to be honest, causes me a bit of anxiety. It’s a list of “things to do” that I know I’ll never finish. But I keep adding stuff to the list because I know that…