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RSS isn't dead; it's thriving. If you stopped using RSS when Google Reader shut down—or if you have no idea what RSS is—this guide is for you.

For ten years or so I've been putting down my thoughts on design, and technology, and ethics. Essays after essay. Some of those essays get turned into talks, some of them get blown out into books, but the essay has always been the native form for all these. I am, at heart, an essay writer. I love the form. It's long enough to be nuanced, and short enough to get it out immediately. All the essays here have already appeared somewhere. Some might be familiar. But I thought it'd be nice to get them all in one book. Cause man I love holding a book, and flipping through it, and writing notes in t...

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Elgato Stream Deck is very simple to setup and use.This article reproduces the printed Elgato Stream Deck Quick Start Guide.There also are many articles available that describe how the software wor...

A Workflow for the OS X app Alfred2: Search your Raindrop.io bookmarks

Watch the videos to get started. Then use KEY CREATOR to make Stream Deck completely yours.

ZoteroBib is a free service that helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software.

Introduction Zotero is a free, open-source tools for collecting, managing, and sharing research. Its functionality can be used through both an online interface to shared collections between groups and when using a desktop application. When working with certain compatible web browsers, Zotero can also be used to more easily import different resources into a collection…

The iPad is excellent for focused writing. With a little help from Zotero and Shortcuts we can now automate academic referencing on ipad

@Smartie_Pops My goto source for learning more about Zotero are these videos from @ncgoodbody 3/

Using @zotero for a literature review from @jss00c #dissertation

I swear, I live and die by #evernote and #zotero... #wunderlist is pretty great too. Thanks for sharing, @bonni208!

My love for Zotero is great, but even I have to admit that it's not perfect. Thankfully, a third-party plugin called Zotfile makes up for its minor limitations with PDF management. Here are the two features I've found particularly beneficial. 1) Extraction of highlights and annotations from PDFs I warn…

This is a tentative agenda. The workshop is small and interactive and we can shorten or extend modules as corresponds to participants’ interests and needs. Contact me before the workshop with…

Google Docs is a great free writing tool with a ton of great hidden features, including the research tool. You can save yourself some time and use the research sidebar to automatically insert the appropriate citations you need for your paper.

In my previous post, I showed you a simple method of getting Scrivener and Zotero to work together. The method I'll show you now is a lot more complicated, but it's much better suited to documents with a lot of citations, e.g. a thesis or book. You're going to need…