Have you ever read a paper or two, found a bunch of interesting references, but avoided looking them up because it would be so arduous?
Procrastinate no more — you can use HubMed‘s Citation Finder! Just copy your references directly from the source paper in a PDF reader, and paste them into the big text box. HubMed will then find the citations, allowing you to correct those that it couldn’t find.
Ingenious.
I’ve fixed some bugs related to how the filter checkboxes work and added a cookie-based login system. Now it will remember you for 30 days, or until you log out, whichever comes first.
For those interested in checking out my (alpha) GTD system, I’ve created a Sourceforge project for it. The project page is here. You can check it out and/or browse the source with SVN under the “Code” menu. At some point I’ll make a webpage for it.
You can check it out using Subversion with this command:
svn co https://phpmygtd.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/phpmygtd/
I need to add the database schemas to it at some point.
The database schema set-up and basic installation instructions have been added.
My friend Rob has just written a post about trying to describe his field. He distinguishes between the casual “so what are you studying” and true interest in your research field. The difference between the conversation-halting, “Parallel scalability for algebraic multigrid methods applied to symmetric positive definite systems that arise from computational biological problems,” and the better-thought out
Abstracting further, [the products of] my field can solve differential equations, which means that it can solve most equations produced by physics. The solutions produced by these calculators describe how the world works. When ever you see a weather forecast, you’re seeing the output of these types of these advanced calculators.
is vast. This goes along with something I discussed with Amanda the other day. It doesn’t matter what field you’re writing for – the message should never be hidden behind words. He actually gives several levels of abstraction, a useful set of responses for tailoring your response to your audience.
Sorry I’ve been posting so little. Things were going so well, several posts a day, then silence.
Why?
I’ve been obsessed. Fixated. For the last 6 days, every spare moment I’ve been working on The Perfect System for managing GTD Next Actions. It has (or will soon have) everything I’ve ever wanted in a GTD system. Usable project filtering. Dependent tasks (on an individual basis)! A usable mobile interface. Calendar exporting for items with due dates. Requires only PHP and MySQL. Alas, it doesn’t include any fancy AJAX, only a little javascript.
I moved all of my tasks into it today. I’m still finding quirks. Once I stop finding quirks (and clean up some crufty code — I just learned PHP, MySQL, and the little bit of javascript this weekend, as I went), I’ll set up accounts for a few people to try.
I’ve already got three people interested. Let me know by commenting here if you want to be in on the alpha release.
Here’s a screenshot to tease you with.
