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Learn
| 💻 | ArXiv | Free distribution service of articles. Mailinglists by area. Also: you can download the source file (.tex) from an article submitted there. |
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| 🌐 | MathOverflow & Math StackExchange | Question and answer sites for professional mathematicians and people studying math, respectively. |
| 🌐 | Connected Papers | It shows you related papers to one specific one in a visual form. |
| 🌐 | MathSciNet | To find papers that cite the paper you're reading. |
| 🎞️ | Coursera, Youtube | To find Math talks and courses in video format. There are many websites for this. |
| ✍️ | Terence Tao’s blog | Discussion on many topics of Math around his research, but there is also a section called “Career Advice”. |
Type
| 💻 | Latex | Find the way you like it. Texstudio, Overleaf, etc. |
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| 💻 | Mathpix | The inverse function of Latex. You upload a pdf or image and returns the tex script. |
| 💻 | deTexiFy | Draw a symbol in Detexify and it will tell you how to write it in Latex. |
| 🖥️ | Lyx | Alternative to Latex with a graphical interface. |
| 📔 | Mathematical Writing | Style of Math writing. It’s overkill, but the first 8 pages are very useful. **** |
| 👩💻 | Grammarly | It helps with writing in English, great for emails. |
| 💻 | iLovePDF | Website to convert pdf to whatever and whatever to pdf. Also reorganize pages, etc. |
Communicating Math
| 📉 | How to give a good maths talk | Fun slides by Euan Spence. |
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| 📄 | How to write Mathematics by Almos | A reflection (22 pages). |
| 🎞️ | How to write mathematics badly | Recorded talk by Jean Pierre Serre. |
| 👥 | People | Strategies: watching talks, practicing talks with others |
Time and tasks
| 📅 | Calendars | “Sometimes it also helped me to put "time to work on my project" explicitly in my calendar not to get overwhelmed by seminars and stuff”. |
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| 🗓️ | Planners | Paper or digital. ** |
| 🍎 | Forest /Pomodoro | Apps to help stay focused. |
| ☑️ | Task/project manager | To-do list, Google tasks, Trello, Notion (overkill), etc. |
Material
| 📁 | For paper: folder, tags, indexing | Think about how or if you want to organize your printed papers or notes/thoughts (by topic, chronologically, etc). |
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| 📁 | For digital material: folder, tags, names | Same. Regarding your choice, try to make advantage of your decision. |
| 🎞️ | Apps for taking notes | Typed: OneNote, Evernote, Obsidian (overkill). Digital handwriting: GoodNotes for iPad, etc. |
| ✍️ | blog, 📄 pdf, 📉 | |
| 💻 | Reference manager | Mendeley/Zotero/etc are very useful for many people probably not in Math. Having one tex file with all the references. |
| 📄 | Report of our Round table on organization |
General information