2025.
Top 7 software for Knowledge workers (researchers, scientists, developers)
Knowledge workers collect, analyze and process information to create new knowledge or insights. They work in a variety of industries, including technology, finance, healthcare and education. Every day they need to think critically, solve complex problems and innovate in their fields. But they have the same brain as other people and the brain has limitations in processing and storing information. To enhance the intelligence, you can use knowledge management software, that allows to automate data storage and organization and save mental resources for more important tasks. Here are our top of such useful apps.
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Top 5 Productivity Software for Teachers
Of course, today's teachers spend most of their time in Zoom, Google Classroom, Moodle or other e-learning systems used in their schools. But we don't want to take on the role of Captain Obvious - we wanted to find the tools that enhance teacher's personal productivity outside this digital learning environment. We will also exclude Microsoft Office from our list, since it is really not a program for productivity but for fomatting educational content - documents and presentations. We will focus on personal programs and services that help teachers manage their time, create lesson plans, manage tasks, organize learning materials and track attendance. By using these software tools, teachers can save time, solve routine tasks more efficiently/quickly and ultimately spend more time and energy thinking about how to engage and transfer knowledge to specific students.
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Smashing - AI-powered app for reading articles
Smashing, a new application curating the finest of the web from Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, is now accessible to the public. Like Goodreads, the app aims to build a community around content. But this time, instead of books, the emphasis is on web content — such as news articles, blog posts, social media updates, podcasts and more. Additionally, Smashing is unveiling an AI Questions feature that enables you to interact with the content being shared in various ways, including by viewing a news story from alternate perspectives or asking the AI to critique the story, among other things. By exploring different facets of a story, you can see how both the political left and right perceive the topic. Or, in the case of a company’s stock, you might be shown both the optimistic and pessimistic viewpoints.
2024.
Memorizer - app for tracking books that you read
In a universe of infinite complexity and the occasional bout of cosmic indifference, there exists a digital contrivance known as
Memorizer, a delightful little app with an almost charming ambition to track not only movies and books but a positively staggering array of human pursuits. With an interface so friendly it might as well offer you a cup of tea, Memorizer allows its 70,000-ish monthly adventurers to log, ponder, and revisit their literary and cinematic escapades, while slyly nudging them toward new inspirations. But wait! This clever gadget doesn’t stop there—it eagerly extends its cataloging prowess to museums, restaurants, cities, and exhibitions, leaving no corner of cultural dabbling untracked. As if that weren’t enough, it fosters a bit of human connection via an “inspiration” tab where users can swap memories and musings with the public—or not, depending on one’s affinity for privacy. One might say it’s the Swiss Army knife of apps, but that would be underselling it terribly.
2023.
Pocket updates support for Kobo e-readers
News and article reading service Pocket has announced that Kobo e-readers will no longer be supported. The reason is that in order to improve security all Pocket accounts are migrated to Firefox accounts. This news caused great indignation among Kobo users and the developers of Pocket decided to solve the problem anyway. Sarah Vasquez, the Senior Manager, Communication at Mozilla, told Good e-Reader in an exclusive statement, “Kobo is aiming to update the Pocket login on their e-readers to support Firefox accounts. The exact timing is to be determined. However, Pocket’s existing Kobo users will not be affected nor lose access to their accounts.
2022.
Alfareader adds highlited annotations and notes
Alfa.NetSoft has released the new version of their reading app for Windows -
Alfareader. The software was fully revamped and redesigned. It's home page now provides Google-like search with attractive bookshelf of recently read books. You can now adjust not only reading template, but also the theme of the main interface. The new timeline tool allows quickly navigate inside book. Moreover, Alfareader now provides tools to save and manage knowledge-blocks. You can easily annotate/highlight text and save the citate to Highlights panel. You can also add own notes/comments to these citates. Besides, Alfareader has a separate section where you can read and manage highlighted notes from all your books.
2021.
LivingWriter has introduced the Research Board
LivingWriter has introduced a new feature Research Board, which serves as a tool for researching historical events. For example, it could be used to explore the cultural characteristics of a specific region or the political and economic structure of a feudal society for a medieval fantasy novel. The Research Board provides authors with a dedicated space to work on their research, eliminating the need for universal features like "History Notes" or "Global Notes" or even a separate notebook or app. Now, whenever you find a good source, such as an article or document or simply have a thought or idea you want to develop further, you can click "Add New" in the Research Board and select the type of entry you want to add.
2019.
Mendeley has added note-taking feature
Mendeley has recently introduced a new feature called Mendeley Notebook, which serves as a note-taking tool. This tool provides a working space where users can keep their thoughts in one place, making it easy to collect highlights from multiple PDFs and add their own comments. You can add highlights from as many PDFs as you want to your Notebook. Researchers have expressed their desire to have highlights and annotations associated with the PDF, but since they often read multiple PDFs simultaneously, they wanted a way to consolidate their notes in one place. With Mendeley Notebook, users can now achieve this goal.
