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I share an important exercise with my writing students that asks them to stand in another person’s shoes. They’re finding it harder and harder to do.

How to Prevent Studies from Turning You into a Fool

We’ve got a thing for creative problem solvers here at Open Culture. We also love a good community-spirited project.

Google’s experimental NotebookLM lacks many of the features of more established notes apps, but its generative AI core gives it analysis and summarization superpowers.

While we don't recommend it, you can pretty easily use Discord as a Google Drive replacement for storing your files.

All over the world, local libraries offer millions of ebooks and audiobooks. You can borrow them — for free, instantly — with a library card and Libby: the award-winning, much-loved app for libraries.

When Taylor Swift announced at the Grammys that the title of her new album would be “The Tortured Poets Department,”

🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more…

Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows

Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows

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It's easy to use the hyphen, em dash and en dash to make your writing flow better. Let's look at some examples of the en dash...

Every important thought in Scott Belsky’s head immediately goes into his todo list. And every item on Scott Belsky’s todo list starts with a verb: Discuss Follow up Meet Ensure Track That’s because the important things to Scott Belsky are the things he can take action on. Everything else is just noise.

Every important thought in Scott Belsky’s head immediately goes into his todo list. And every item on Scott Belsky’s todo list starts with a verb: Discuss Follow up Meet Ensure Track That’s because the important things to Scott Belsky are the things he can take action on. Everything else is just noise.

Taking smart notes is one of the most efficient ways to increase your productivity and your creativity. But what kind of notes? Once you start considering all the mediums, techniques, strategies, and formats available to you when taking notes, the combinations are almost infinite.  This attempt at a taxonomy of notes was inspired by a ... Read More

Psychology, philosophy, and self-help

I could have happily been a librarian. I spent the glorious summer of 1988 as an intern in my university’s library system, learning what it was like to work in the various departments.

As a follow-up to my prior guide on how to use Sci-hub to download academic papers for free, here's a simple guide to use Library Gensis aka. Libgen. Library Genesis is another guerilla open access project, also run by people from the Russia-sphere. It's relatively easy to use. 1. Go to the Libg

These sneaky filter verbs are making your writing difficult to connect with

I’ve been working in government for four years now. I’ve been lucky enough to work across several roles, getting to experience digital…

How to use this adage to avoid making yourself a victim.