I'm keen to see the OWID notes if they let you share them!
Re Overleaf, that is also what I use for academic work. But I think it is probably only worth it if there are a decent number of equations in your work (or you like things to look fancy and don't mind taking longer). For my think tank work I started using Overleaf but the collaborative functionality is sufficiently worse (and many people aren't used to latex) that I switched to just gdocs, which seem great for most use cases. If you do use Overleaf though, the integration with Zotero is nice (auto-syncing your library), and faster than in gdocs which for me the Zotero plug-in is a bit laggy. I also had a bit of trouble with citations becoming 'unlinked' when people without the Zotero extension were editing my gdoc, not sure if there is a good workaround for this.
> What programs do you use for your papers and for writing?
I'm heavily invested in the linux command line ecosystem, and I usually draft stuff in markdown, and then compile it into latex/pdf with pandoc. I'd be tempted to recommend this for first drafts, but it has a high upfront cost.
Fabulous! Thank you so much for the suggestion. I will add this to my list of things to explore in 2025. What would you say the biggest pros are? I see the con as the high upfront cost, which is mitigated for me by the fact that I will set aside time for learning new things in this area next year. Thank you so much.
The pros are that once the upfront cost is paid, the process to go from zero to a draft is much faster. Markdown is also a much nicer syntax for writting simple layouts than latex.
I'm keen to see the OWID notes if they let you share them!
Re Overleaf, that is also what I use for academic work. But I think it is probably only worth it if there are a decent number of equations in your work (or you like things to look fancy and don't mind taking longer). For my think tank work I started using Overleaf but the collaborative functionality is sufficiently worse (and many people aren't used to latex) that I switched to just gdocs, which seem great for most use cases. If you do use Overleaf though, the integration with Zotero is nice (auto-syncing your library), and faster than in gdocs which for me the Zotero plug-in is a bit laggy. I also had a bit of trouble with citations becoming 'unlinked' when people without the Zotero extension were editing my gdoc, not sure if there is a good workaround for this.
you have probably seen this already, but this was a great graphs communication post: https://www.asimov.press/p/charts
> What programs do you use for your papers and for writing?
I'm heavily invested in the linux command line ecosystem, and I usually draft stuff in markdown, and then compile it into latex/pdf with pandoc. I'd be tempted to recommend this for first drafts, but it has a high upfront cost.
Fabulous! Thank you so much for the suggestion. I will add this to my list of things to explore in 2025. What would you say the biggest pros are? I see the con as the high upfront cost, which is mitigated for me by the fact that I will set aside time for learning new things in this area next year. Thank you so much.
The pros are that once the upfront cost is paid, the process to go from zero to a draft is much faster. Markdown is also a much nicer syntax for writting simple layouts than latex.