gwern comments on Share Your Checklists!

[gwern]

My current checklist for finishing an essay:

• spellcheck (ispell)

• balanced brackets & quotes check

• linkchecker for

  1. dead links

  2. inserting into archive queue

• for academic hyperlinks, include a tooltip with the title & author metadata

• for any papers cited: either link full text, provide a local full text, or submit a request

• check readability level (eg. Flesch-Kincaid)

• probability word checklist

• do a Pandoc/​Firefox preview for visible major formatting problems

• Markdown lint-checker (shell script checking for common syntax fragments indicating error)

• arrange for notifications of future results (when relevant, eg. for following dual n-back research):

  1. Google Alerts

  2. Google Scholar Alerts

  3. PubMed alerts