Category Archives: Collaboration

It’s not Macs vs. PCs. It’s people vs. powerpoints

Posted on 2012/12/08 by

A meeting of an academic board. Ten people. Eight Macs. One PC. The PC is projecting PowerPoint bullet lists about academic excellence, technological innovation, and social transformation. The presenter reads to the audience what is displayed on the screen, line … Continue reading →

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Collaboration in academic writing: software and beyond

Posted on 2012/11/24 by

Unfortunately, collaboration in academic writing often causes frustration. Academics are used to think that co-authoring a manuscripts means emailing back and forth Microsoft Word documents with endless “Track Changes” and “Comments” layered on top of each other. Whereas writing is … Continue reading →

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Overcoming OmniFocus’ myopia: OmniOutliner and the yet-to-be-discovered academic planning software

Posted on 2012/10/29 by

One of the five things that should be kept out of OmniFocus are project plans. There are several good reasons for that. OmniFocus is designed to provide an unambiguous list of concrete things that both should and can be done … Continue reading →

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Collaborative writing with Papers

Posted on 2012/10/13 by

Preparing manuscripts with Papers in collaboration with other co-authors can go very well if you observe a couple of simple rules.  When I am the only contributor and use my standard writing workflow (OmniOutliner → Byword → Scrivener → Word) … Continue reading →

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