Emily VanBuren is a PhD student in History at Northwestern University. You can find her on Twitter at @emilydvb or at her blog, dighistorienne. I use this software religiously now. It isn’t perfect, ...

We researchers juggle a lot of information: ongoing experiments, long-term projects, grant and teaching deadlines and more. It can be a real challenge to keep things from slipping through the cracks.

I’m not a programmer. But I’ve been creating my own software tools with help from artificial intelligence. Credit...Photo Illustration by Ben Denzer; Source Photographs by Sue Bernstein and Paul ...