When writing a scientific paper, I use several tools below to boost and speed up my writing process. Hence, I only need two weeks to a month to complete the first version of my manuscript (after the experiment has been conducted). Two tools are paid: Copilot and Grammarly. Before going down to the list below, you may also be interested in my resources for academic writing - word concordance [1]. For last year's tool (2022), specializing on both research and paper writing instead of paper writing only, you can check it here [2].
- Mendeley (the old desktop version, not the new reference manager, to create a BIB file automatically)
- Grammarly (vscode plugin)
- Latex Workshop (vscode plugin)
- Copilot (vscode plugin)
- ChatGPT (to ask questions)
By using these tools, I DON'T need to:
- Create bibliography manually
- Sometimes, write all sentences in paragraphs since Copilot will do it.
- Check the grammar manually.
- Create Table, Figure, and Equation manually in Latex (thanks to Latex Workshop).
Other tools (unexplored well, in progress for adaptation)
- https://www.explainpaper.com (tool to explain any hard-to-understand terms/sentences in a paper)
- https://elicit.org/ (like ChatGPT, but with reference)
- LTeX – LanguageTool grammar/spell checking (alternative to Grammarly, free)
Reference
[1] http://bagustris.blogspot.com/2020/07/resources-for-academic-writing-word.html
[2] https://bagustris.blogspot.com/2023/01/tools-i-used-for-accelerating-science.html
