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Local AI for Academics Workshop

I'm putting together a hands-on workshop on running AI inside Obsidian for research. How to use AI to import papers from Zotero, check them against your notes, and build custom skills to automate information extraction, formatting, organising, etc. Before I lock the format, I want to know what matters most to you and how you'd prefer to run it. It takes about two minutes, and everyone who fills it out gets a discount when the workshop opens.

Your Email to send you the discount

Leave blank if you don't care.

Which tools are you using already?

Obsidian

Zotero or other Ref Manager

ChatGPT in Browser

Consensus (Website) or SciSpace (Website)

Claude Code/CoWork or OpenAI Codex

Git / Github (any desktop client like Tower, GitKraken, etc.)

Do you have a digital system of notes/papers?

Yes, frequently used

Yes, but just starting

Only for papers, I take notes more manually

What's the one research task you'd most want AI to handle for you?

What would make this workshop a success for you?

Where do you lose the most time in your current research setup?

What's your academic role?

Student

Grad Student

Researcher / PostDoc

Faculty

Other (Journalist, Research as a hobby, etc.)

Format of the Workshop

There are three elements to the effective workshop: My demo, your implementation and a Q&A. How should we arrange it ?

Format of the Workshop

One longer live session, with breaks for implementation

A demo session(pre-recorded) + homework (and questions in the forum) + Live Q&A sharing session

Three shorter sessions: Demo (pre-recorded), Implementation Support Session (live), Final Q&A (live)