20.03 Systems for research

System Description
Obsidian - Markdown-based knowledge management tool
- Follows a second brain approach
- Allows linking pieces of information together to draw conclusions
- Helps to structure contents for a comprehensive teaching and writing outline
Marp - Open source Markdown-based presentation tool
- Creating slides with text, images, code blocks, diagrams, …
- Exporting Presentations to many formats (HTML, PDF, …)
- Speaker notes and presenter view during presentations
- CSS styling for customization
- Good integration with Git
- Template is available here
Zotero - IT-support offers help when switching from Citavi to Zotero
- Store and organize various types of research materials
- Generate citations and bibliographies in various citation styles (such as APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.)
- Easy collaboration with other researchers by sharing libraries
- Built-in PDF reader
- Provides advanced search and filtering options to quickly locate specific sources within large collections
- Synchronization between devices
Agent Ransack, Recoll, pdfgrep - Searching content across PDF files
R / RStudio / Tidyverse - Statistical analyses and visualization (ggplot2)
Python - Data science projects
Juypyter notebooks - Interactive analyses in Python or R
Cursor: AI Code Editor - Write code with AI support (ctrl+k / ctrl+l)