Using Overleaf for Collaboration, Dissertations,Grants, & Teaching

Arindam Basu

School of Health SciencesUniversity of Canterbury,

Christchurch,New Zealand

October 4, 2016

“The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don’t push it”.-Jamie Zawinski (1968-), Emacs developer and blogger

Three Two One

I Three Principles: fearlessness, freedom of knowledge,unfragment

I Two Enablers: FOSS and The Cloud

I One App: Overleaf (with Pandoc and Jupyter)

Free and Open Source Software

The Cloud As a Framework

Web based Plain Text Productivity

My Different Roles as a University Academic

I Present before Students and Colleagues

I Mark Papers

I Guide Thesis Students

I Apply for Grants and Funding for my research

I Manage References

I Analyse Data

I Publish in Journals

I Write more informal publications (Newspaper articles andblogs)

I Collaborate with colleagues

I Sit on committees and analyse text data

I Read documents

What Overleaf brings together

I A Neat Writing Tool (Plain Text and WYSIWYG)

I Presentation Tool

I Developing Wireframes and Diagrams with TikZ/PGF

I Workable File Manager

I A communication Tool for Team Communication

I Collaborative Writing

I An Idea Sharing Tool

I Publishing tool for Journal Submission

I With Pandoc and Git, a Blogging Tool as well

Separation of Content and Form in Overleaf

One Version, Many Collaborators

Serendipity: Ordered projects helps student supervision

Continuity: Connect Overleaf, Evernote, Zotero

Flexibility: Connect Overleaf with Quip