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hoxha hoxha2022年11月30日

★★★★★5

The best knowledge management tool out there. Please enable the possibility of appending text to database by rightclick. And after that the possibility of including citations first,.

Gabriel Garrett2021年11月26日

★★★★★5

This is a very powerful research tool for compiling thoughts in real-time.

Jonathan Rodriguez Cefalu2021年10月9日

★★★★★5

I've tried several different online writing assistants and this is a unique and pretty cool tool that's a good complement to something like Grammarly. In fact, I recommend to use both Grammarly and Consilience as they do different things and work well together. Once you've installed both extensions, here's how you use them. Go to an online text editor website such as editpad.org and create a new text pad. Start writing and Grammarly will check your spelling, but what about when you don't know what to write next? This is where Consilience is useful. To activate Consilience, press alt-F on windows or option-F on mac. A side panel will appear at the right side of the window. Click the drop-down menu at the top of the side panel. In that drop-down menu, click "Enable Multiselect". Then, click the checkboxes to enable some data sources that are relevant to the topic you are writing about; for example, if you are writing about entrepreneurship, you could enable paulgraham.com and seekingalpha.com. Then close the drop-down. (note: You can enable as many data sources as you like, but the performance will slow down if you enable more.) Now, click in the search bar below the drop-down. Start typing a search phrase, for example you could type in "how to assess the fundamental value of a stock". Search results will appear, like they would if you had a search engine attached to your text editor. But so far this is expected; this isn't the cool part. The really cool part is this: You can select (highlight) a sentence you've written in the text editor pad, and the sentence that you select is automatically searched by Consilience! In other words, you can search for anything you've written simply by selecting it! This makes it really easy to look up what other authors have written about the same topic, and you can quickly see if what you wrote is different than the consensus of other authors (making your writing either contrarian or possibly incorrect), or you can get ideas for new sentences that you might want to add, near the sentence you selected. Basically, it's easy to get inspiration by using Consilience as a built-in research tool integrated directly with selecting anything you write. The current state of the extension has some limitations that I hope they improve, such as not enough built in data sources, and slow performance if you have too many data sources active. But as long as they keep improving it, I'm going to be using it for my writing endeavors as it provides value in a way that other writing assistants don't do.