Research
11 ways to Evernote your medical research
Evernote is a respository for notes, PDFs, images and even handwritten scribbles. It takes your dross and makes it accessible and searchable. EfficientMD recently shared how medicos can take advantage of it, and I reckon researchers should not be ignored. So here are my suggestions for “Evernote-ing” your research.
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Medical software I couldn’t do without
After a discussion on the Twitter, I got thinking about core medical apps and hardware. We all need an email client and we all need a browser. But what applications are vital to my medical practice? Maybe I wouldn’t even use them if I wasn’t a doctor?
The list is suprisingly short:
Papers
Papers is [...]
Weekly medical productivity Shout outs!
I have been reading some interesting stuff over the last couple of weeks, and have a couple of things to share.
Merlin Mann on 43folders recently wrote about a neat technique of clarifying his next action and project. Think of a task like this:
I need to $FOO because I want to $BAR
$FOO becomes the next [...]
PubSearch offers desktop access to PubMed searches
Pubsearch is a desktop link to PubMed. If you are searching PubMed a lot, it can be a pain to have your browser open. This software has a great interface. It is so simple to use that the user documentation is a soundless screencast on the download page, and that is sufficient.
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Search journal impact factors easily on the Mac
Journal impact factor and websites are pivotal when deciding where to submit a new article. I have always found internet searches for this information tedious - it feels like there should be a simpler solution.
Enter Scientific Journal Informations (sic). This is a small database which includes impact factor, website, and ISO title abbreviation. [...]