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Introduction
Writing papers can be a pain. Luckily, I’ve found some tools that make my life easier when writing papers! They’re all free (or cheap) and available on the internet, so you don’t need any special equipment or software to start using them right away.
1) Google Calendar: A great place to organize your time, both for work and play. You can put in reminders and set up alerts.
The first product to consider is Google Calendar. If you have a lot of different tasks coming up, this is where you want to keep track of them. You can put in reminders and set up alerts for yourself, so that it’s easier for you to remember when something needs to get done. It also has the ability to share your calendar with other people in your lab, which is great if there are people who work on projects alongside each other or attend meetings together regularly.
The next tool I would suggest is Todoist (https://todoist.com/), a task management app that allows users to organize their projects into different lists via “projects” and “categories” on their homepage (Figure 1). Each project has its own subtasks that can be added individually within each project list (Figure 2). For example: if your professor gives out two assignments over an eight-week period during the semester—one due every two weeks—you could create multiple tasks within one project by adding due dates in relation Todoist’s recurring dates feature as well as changing times when necessary; this way it will be easier for students who may forget about deadlines because they were away from school during those weeks!
2) Tiddlywiki: This is a great place to keep all of your research and links to other people’s research, as well as your own notes on what you’ve read. It’s super easy to move information around, and it all lives on your computer, so you don’t have to worry about losing anything if the internet goes down.
Tiddlywiki is a great place to keep all of your research and links to other people’s research, as well as your own notes on what you’ve read. It’s super easy to move information around, and it all lives on your computer, so you don’t have to worry about losing anything if the internet goes down.
3) Zotero: This citation tool makes it easy to organize all the references you might use for your paper. It also quickly generates citations for you in MLA, APA and Chicago format – saving you loads of time!
- Zotero: This citation tool makes it easy to organize all the references you might use for your paper. It also quickly generates citations for you in MLA, APA and Chicago format – saving you loads of time!
- Google Docs: Collaborate with your friends on writing projects and share them with others who need access to your work.
It’s important to cite your sources when doing research papers because it helps other people learn about what you found out about a topic or issue, so they can do their own research too!
Lab Dog loves tools that make his life easier when writing papers. All three of these tools do just that!
If you’re like the majority of college students, you know how difficult it can be to manage your time. With all of the papers, projects, and assignments that are constantly coming at us from all sides, it can be difficult to even remember what we have due when. Luckily, there are several tools that can help make this process easier for you!
- Google Calendar: A calendar is one of the most important things in a student’s arsenal because it allows them to see all their upcoming deadlines in one place. If a deadline isn’t on here then chances are good that they won’t do anything about it until right before the assignment is due which means stress levels go way up around those times. Most importantly though? You don’t have to keep track yourself! It does all the work for you once you decide what needs doing (which brings me nicely onto my next point).
Conclusion
Lab Dog loves tools that make his life easier when writing papers. All three of these tools do just that! They’re great for organizing your time and research, as well as making it easy to cite sources properly.