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Looking for research gaps and open questions?
❌ Old way: Read and summarize literature
✅ New way: Leverage ChatGPT and AI-generated mind maps
This workflow takes only 10 minutes:
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Here is what we are going to do:
1. Present our notes to ChatGPT
2. Ask it for a visual summary
3. Ask it to identify RESEARCH QUESTIONS (green) and GAPS (red) using its vast knowledge base
4. The styled diagram looks like this image and sums up a subset of my research.

1. Let's add our notes to a text file.
For convenience I use the content of 7 notes I modified today and dumped them into a text file.
Remember: ChatGPT 3.5 has a limit of ~3000 words, GPT 4 ~25.000 words.
You can also take your manuscript or any other scientific text.

2. First let's ask ChatGPT for a summary.
I just use the prompt "Summarise:" and copy and paste the notes.
You can see in the video that it is A LOT of text.
Pause in the last second of the video, to see how great and short the summary is.

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2b. Review
Use this summary to REVIEW your own research.
Because this summary is based on YOUR content, you can manually add links to the concept in your notes.
(I use @obsdmd for my notes)

@obsdmd 2c. Visual Summary
We will ask for a MERMAID DIAGRAM. It is a text-based diagram format, that ChatGPT is very good at.
(You can copy and paste the entire prompt in the ALT description of the image)

Create a mermaid diagram out of the core concepts in this context and annotate the connections. Make sure that all relevant concepts are mentioned in the diagram.

Make sure that the mermaid diagram: 1. Uses quotation marks around the connections 2. The node descriptions do not contain any parenthesis or special characters 3. That each line ends in a semicolon

@obsdmd 2d. Result
ChatGPT will give you this cryptic looking code.
Copy it with the button at the top right.

@obsdmd 2e. Using @drawio to display the graphic.
Drawio is a free tool, that you can use to create diagrams.
Click Arrange > Insert > Advanced > Mermaid...
Paste the code into the text box and hit ok.
The result looks a bit messy, but can easily be styled. We'll do this later...

@obsdmd @drawio 3. Research Questions
Now we can use a sequence of prompts to add RESEARCH QUESTIONS to the diagram.
To tell them apart I ask ChatGPT to use all caps.
The result are a few new nodes in the diagram with research questions.

@obsdmd @drawio 3b. Gaps
Ask ChatGPT to identify common problems and GAPS in my knowledge.
Again the diagram will grow by a few nodes.
You can repeat this process for your domain and requirements.

@obsdmd @drawio 4. Insert the final diagram into @drawio (like in step 2e)
Select the QUESTIONS and use the style panel on the top right to quickly color them green.
Do the same with GAPS and color them red

@obsdmd @drawio 4b. Straighten the lines
Select the connecting lines and select "straight" in the line style.
This will make the lines straight and easier to see.

@obsdmd @drawio 4c. Rearrange
For overview rearrange the nodes.
The end result is a single picture that gives you an OVERVIEW of your research.
Plus OPEN QUESTIONS, and GAPS.
It usually only takes a few minutes to create, but will help you stay organised for years to come.

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