
Calm productivity for academics
This site is now an archive of my previous work. I have moved all my ongoing writing to https://michael-rowe.github.io/home-michael/
Academic reading in the digital age demands systematic curation, yet most scholars manage incoming information chaotically. Read-it-later apps for academics transform scattered consumption into intentional workflows, offering unified reading experiences, robust annotation systems, and reliable export functionality that supports sustained intellectual engagement across disciplines and research projects.
In this short video I demonstrate a strategy for note-taking with Hypothesis and Zotero while reading on the web. I try to show the early stages of creating links between ideas that I’m interested in, and eventually where I add those ideas into my permanent notes. One of the challenges of being an academic is…