canarytokens VS zotero

Get a free OS in a VMand open any files in there. You should not trust a random batch of potentially backdoored or canarytoken'ed files

Throw some honeytokens/canarytokens on key systems. Thinkst has a free option where you can drop Word docs, PDF, AWS keys, etc. that will send you an email or webhook if they're ever used. https://canarytokens.org

QR code with some pdfs from inside a canarytokens.org folder.

You can generate Canarytokens for free on their website: https://www.canarytokens.org/generate. They're open-source, so if you're technically-inclined, you can run the software yourself: https://github.com/thinkst/canarytokens. All the documentation is here: https://docs.canarytokens.org/guide/.

I do not think a trap or "phishing link" is a good idea if she are getting serious threats! But it is not too hard, you can generate a few with here and if somebody opens the link you will get an email containing the time and IP address of who opened it: https://canarytokens.org (note that, you can not really do much with these information on your own).

Good tip, OP could use this for quick setup. https://canarytokens.org

> a new academic area

Research papers and books then. I use Google Scholar for searching, and libgen / scihub for the stuff I can't get access to easily.

> I inevitably lose track of papers.

A tools I used in graduate school for keeping track of research papers (and books): Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/).

> I'm curious if there are already tools out there to aggegate open access research by your own criteria (i.e. from specific sources only, prioritise by keyword)?

University Libraries seem to do this; And to a lesser extent smaller libraries associated with communities. Some software that I know of that was related to how my library did things is EZproxy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EZproxy). It manages access to journals and databases, which is at least a part of how to address this point. Otherwise, I'm not aware of a service that does this; Though I will keep an eye on the thread just in case someone else has a good recommendation.

FWIW, I've gotten in the habit of using Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/) with a browser extension to do this. If I read something that I think I might want to reference later, I just hit an extension button and it gets slurped into Zotero with a bunch of information indexed for retrieval later.

Maybe try Zotero[1]. There are many addons which can do what you need.

[1]https://www.zotero.org/

And next time, you use a real literature management program like zotero (some university libraries offer classes, there is a r/zotero, etc) or jabref to create a proper bibtex file with the references. It is not that difficult, and keeps you sane (esp. if a paper has to be formatted for a different publisher). See e.g. learnlatex.

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Apparently there are plugins for Logseq and Obsidian as well.

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