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general writing tips, vimrcs for writers and so on; from the NaNoWriMo:

https://www.naperwrimo.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vim_for_Writers

an example academic workflow for a book/paper/dissertation including bibtex references, notes, ... using Pandoc:

http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/plain-text-citations.html

more general thoughts about plaintext academia:

http://wcaleb.org/blog/my-academic-book-in-plain-text

a discussion on vim for novel writing:

https://old.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/byuuu3/vim_for_novel_writing/

and some latex templates:

https://writingjourney.org/blog/2017/08/16/using-latex-for-typesetting-short-story-anthologies-and-novels/

Reference manager for the cli

The best open source licence license for academic purposes

Research on Online Moderation and Discourse practices and effects, implements a lot of A/B testing to find patterns in online moderation

Create 'powerpoint' presentations directly from a markdown file in git-(lab/hub/gitea/gogs)

Crowd-Annotation for any website through js bookmarklets

From previous experience, I found that I was making too many knowledge items while reading, which made it hard to identify the really important ones. So now, I read through the entire document (article PDF or chapter of a monograph) and mark down possible knowledge items (yellow highlight in citavi PDFs, pencil or 3M flags in printed materials). Then when I've finished, I write a summary knowledge item in 2 paragraphs—the first outlines the argument, the second (in italics) gives my evaluation and thoughts about possible uses. (I don't use the evaluation field in the contents tab as I want to be able to see this quickly in the knowledge view.) Now I'll go back through the marks I've made and work out which ones I want to input as knowledge items. As part of the input, I will assign to as specific category as possible. Every few days, I will have a look through my outline to see where the holes are (not a lot of knowledge items), and to see if anything in the NOT SURE YET category sparks any new thoughts on organization.

I bailed and ended up getting a good job in marketing. I'm now managing all of the written marketing content at a very large company and making good money.

Making the jump is hard, but it's certainly possible. For me, I had trouble seeing value in myself outside of academia because teaching/research was what I was trained for. Teaching tons of classes for little pay and getting nowhere with the job search certainly didn't help my morale either.

The best thing I did was see a resume coach. She worked for the uni where I was teaching, so I was lucky to see her for free. She specialized in helping grad students and adjuncts find jobs outside of academia.

I learned that many companies are interested in hiring PhDs. The key was learning how to translate my skills into language that businesses would understand. The resume coach and I talked about my skills and which field made the most sense. As an anthropologist, marketing was a good fit.

After learning how to translate my skills and writing them all down in an exhaustive list, I could quickly assemble custom resumes (picking and choosing skills) for specific jobs. Then I started applying to everything. Make sure you have a good answer for the inevitable "why are you leaving academia" questions (not just that you're sick of being broke).

Not every company will give you a chance, but the ones who will are probably the ones you'll feel most comfortable working in anyway. It took about 3 months of applying before I got a job. They're a big company, and they actively look to hire PhDs. I feel very comfortable there, enjoy the work, am valued, and don't miss academia very much.

I hope things work out for you. Good luck!

Mindmaps, Outlining, Drafting, Rewriting