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Find the workflow that fits how you actually work.

A computational biologist and a historian share almost no workflow. Choose your track below and you get a curated path through the library — the tools that matter for your discipline, in the order worth learning them.

69tool reviews
60step-by-step guides
4discipline tracks

Every entry states what a tool costs, where your data lives, and when not to use it. Real numbers only.

Which describes your work?

Pick one. You can always change track later — the library is tagged, not siloed.

Computational & Quantitative

CS · Physics · Bioinformatics · Economics

The full pipeline: reproducible Python environments, Git, containers, workflow managers, and agent-assisted analysis you can still defend.

56 matching entries

Wet Lab & Experimental

Biology · Chemistry · Materials

Data capture that satisfies ethics, protocol automation, and figure pipelines that survive reviewer two without being redrawn.

48 matching entries

Humanities & Qualitative

History · Literature · Anthropology

Zotero and Obsidian in depth, plain-text writing that outlives its software, and AI used on sources with real verification discipline.

39 matching entries

Social & Mixed Methods

Psychology · Sociology · Education

Preregistration, survey pipelines, statistics without a licence fee, and qualitative coding that stands up to a methods reviewer.

50 matching entries

Not sure yet? Do these three things first.

They apply to every discipline, and each one pays for itself within a week.

Fix your references first
Every other workflow downstream depends on it, and the fix takes one evening. Zotero plus Better BibTeX gives you a bibliography that maintains itself.
Read the Zotero review
Put your work under version control
Not because you write software — because "which version produced this figure" should be answerable in seconds rather than by opening four folders.
Git & GitHub for researchers
Write in plain text, export to anything
One source file becomes the PDF for submission, the Word file for your supervisor, and the HTML supplement. No reformatting, ever again.
Master Markdown for research