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lloeki · 4 years ago

Continuity has been a wonderful feature that I use only from time to time, but when I use it it's been absolutely glorious in removing mental friction for menial tasks. Copying TOTP codes is one thing that just makes 2FA that much less of an annoyance.

It's infectious. So much so that I'm constantly annoyed that Music supports neither Continuity nor some form of remote control. It feels like the feature was released and then they suddenly stopped adding more apps to support it.

axtonpitt · 4 years ago

Yeah agreed, not having continuity support in Music baffles me

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peytoncasper · 5 years ago

This is really awesome, I love the map for tracking existing papers and exploration for finding relevant ones. Any thoughts of supporting other integrations into something like Notion? Would be awesome to use Litmaps as the central index and attach notes on the papers.

Where are you indexing your articles from? Plenty of ML/CS articles, but wasn't able to find someone by their Orchid ID in the Biology/Chemistry space.

Looking forward to the full release.

axtonpitt · 5 years ago

Hey there, thanks for the feedback! We have just launched notes and ORCID author search, so hopefully that helps you locate the author you are looking for.

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timvdalen · 5 years ago

Looks interesting! Is there a way to get some more 'debug' output from importing? I tried to import a bibliography I had lying around, but it found 0 articles in it (even though it's valid and has 33 entries).

axtonpitt · 5 years ago

Sorry not at the moment, will look into this.

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xaedes · 5 years ago

Pretty amazing! Is there an option to display the articles in "year - title" instead of "author, year" format?

Imho this would give a much better overview over the topics and research itself.

With "author, year" format it feels like a tool to analyse citation networks and how people cite each other; more about the social aspect than about the content of the articles.

axtonpitt · 5 years ago

Just deployed an update to give you an option to change the label to a truncated title. (It's under the top right 'cog' menu on the map).

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teapourer · 5 years ago

Great work! Is there a way to share a map state via a URL?

axtonpitt · 5 years ago

Not currently, this is on our todo list.

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charlesdaniels · 5 years ago

This is a really cool idea! I have wished for something like this for a long time. Glad to see someone built it.

Sadly however, it seems that the .bib file I get from Zotero isn't supported, since it claims to have found 0 articles in it, despite the fact that I have verified those articles show up when searching for them directly.

Edit: TIL that you can also get a .bib file from the "export items" button, as well as from "create bibliography from items". I had been using the latter. It seems that Litmaps only works with .bib files created using "export items".

axtonpitt · 5 years ago

Ah thanks for highlighting this, will fix.

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vogon_laureate · 5 years ago

Just had a quick play around with it and it is really well executed and quite a useful tool. I'm recommending it to my academic and research friends. Hats off to you and the team.

axtonpitt · 5 years ago

Thanks a lot, will pass on the feedback.

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austinjp · 5 years ago

I'm out and about on mobile at the moment, so can't check in detail. But I just wanted to say thank god you're doing this. Academia is desperately in need of (r)evolution in many areas.

axtonpitt · 5 years ago

Thanks for the kind words, we'll hopefully have a mobile version one day soon.

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axtonpitt · 5 years ago

Hi I'm one of the founders of Litmaps. We set out to build this tool after frustration with the state of current academic search software. This was specifically from the painful literature review process of my co-founder during his PhD.

Our first attempt to solve this was with a "map of all science" (from 1400-today, 100M+ articles, 1B citations), which we did build but it didn't end up solving the problem that well. We re-approached the problem by pairing a time-based citation visualization, with helpful search tools, and project (or map) state. Our visualization lets you quickly see how search results relate to each other (optionally with nodes sized by citation count). We currently have keyword search, and a network search (called Explore) that scans for highly connected articles up to two degrees away from your map(s) and/or keyword searches. Lastly the project state is nice because as you build up key articles, network search is more targeted, and you can opt into email updates if there are any newly published works that connect to your map as we update our dataset.

It's currently in early access so it's free to use, and you don't need to create an account to get started. You can dive right in and start finding relevant articles to what you are working on or are interested in. Keen to hear feedback on our work so far. Thanks.

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xaedes · 5 years ago

Pretty amazing! Is there an option to display the articles in "year - title" instead of "author, year" format?

Imho this would give a much better overview over the topics and research itself.

With "author, year" format it feels like a tool to analyse citation networks and how people cite each other; more about the social aspect than about the content of the articles.

axtonpitt · 5 years ago

That's a great suggestion, there isn't an option currently but that is reasonably easy to add. One issue is trying to fit enough labels on nodes to make it useful which we have grappled with.