Handy Tools

Tools to make life easier

Note Writing

Obsidian | Zettlr | Sublime Text | Hypothesis |

Dictation & Transcription

MacWhisper | Whisper AI for Transcription, Colab Notebook by Eric Hobson

Bibliography Management

Zotero | JabRef

Literature Search

Google Scholar | OpenAlex | …there’s also a place that rhymes with sky-hub…

Local LLM

Simon Willison’s LLM | Ollama Jan

Computing Power

Colab

Algorithms Are Thoughts, Chainsaws Are Tools

And… yes, we’ll be looking at code from time to time. Here’s a video by Stephen Ramsay to demonstrate to you just how rich it can be to read someone’s code, even when you don’t fully understand what you’re looking at:

Algorithms Are Thoughts, Chainsaws Are Tools from Stephen Ramsay on Vimeo.

Image is a detail from a photo by Hunter Haley on Unsplash