grad school

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Notion for Thesis Management: Hype and Reality

Notion's linked databases look like the perfect thesis workspace. What goes wrong over four years, and the boring alternatives that hold up…

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Obsidian’s Quiet Influence on Academic Workflows

How Obsidian's plain-text notes and linked thinking quietly became the default for grad students, and the optimization traps that come with the…

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