Thoughts on making academic collaboration better.
OpenAI is closing Prism on January 1, 2027 and deleting every project after that date. How to export all your Prism projects, what the export leaves out, and how to move them into LetX in one step.
Overleaf can download all your projects as one zip, but imports them back one at a time. LetX takes that whole zip and imports every project in one step. Here is how, and what comes across.
Every theme that ships with Beamer, grouped by layout, with previews you can open and edit: Madrid, Metropolis, Warsaw, Berlin, CambridgeUS and more.
How to search properly, read papers without drowning in them, keep notes you can actually cite from, and work out which kind of literature review your supervisor means.
What actually happens between finishing the work and seeing it in print: choosing a venue, the four documents nobody warns you about, what peer review is really asking, and how to answer it.
Most student pricing checks whether your address ends in .edu. That test fails in most of the world and passes for anyone willing to buy an address. So we check a document instead, and your academic address corroborates it.
Chat window, autocomplete, in-editor agent, or the compiler brought to your assistant. They fail in different ways, and knowing which one you are using explains most of the frustration.
Soft gradients, frosted panels and full-bleed title slides are all achievable in TikZ. Here is the code for each, and the reason most decks should use one of them at most.
A conference slot is shorter than the paper and the audience has read none of it. That combination rules out almost everything you might put on a slide.
A defence is not a summary of your thesis. It is an argument for one claim, with the evidence your committee will push on, and a backup section for the questions you can see coming.
An assistant that writes LaTeX cannot tell you whether it builds. Connecting a real compiler over MCP closes that gap, and in Claude and ChatGPT it is a few clicks in their directories.
One 4,000-line main.tex is a merge conflict waiting for a coauthor. Splitting it is easy; keeping every piece independently compilable is the part people skip.
Feature tables age badly and every vendor writes their own. Here are the five questions that actually change which editor you should use, and how to check each one yourself in a few minutes.
The default Beamer themes date a deck to 2009 in one slide. Here is what to strip, what to keep, and the structure investors actually read.
Most prompts to a LaTeX assistant get an explanation back instead of an edit. The difference is one property of the sentence, and it is not politeness or length.
The mechanical half of making a deck from a paper is real work: finding the figures, copying the assets, keeping captions intact. The judgment half cannot be delegated, and the trick is not to try.
A protocol is a controlled document, not a lab report: it needs a version number, approvals and a revision history. 12 free LaTeX protocol templates.
A German Lebenslauf is not a translated résumé. What the tabellarischer Lebenslauf expects in 2026 (sections, photo, signature), plus free LaTeX templates.
The 10 most common LaTeX errors ranked by search demand, with a one-line fix for each, Missing $ inserted, Undefined control sequence, and more.
Free LaTeX templates for finance and business documents: annual financial statements, balance sheets, equity research, corporate reports, business plans, crypto whitepapers and pro-forma invoices.
Free LaTeX templates for contracts, NDAs, leases, powers of attorney, affidavits, briefs and pleading paper, with clause numbers that update themselves.
Free LaTeX templates for clinical and medical documents: patient intake and history forms, discharge summaries, operative and radiology reports, prescription pads and dental treatment plans.
Free LaTeX templates for engineering documents: software architecture and systems engineering plans, bills of materials, root cause analysis reports, FPGA and PCB design specs and CAD title blocks.
Free LaTeX templates for technical documentation: REST and GraphQL API references, admin runbooks, disaster recovery plans, database schema docs, release notes and UAT test plans.
Free Beamer presentation templates: startup pitch decks, quarterly business reviews, university lecture slides, medical case presentations and code walkthroughs, all modern and pdflatex-safe.
Free LaTeX poster templates for conferences: 36x48 and 48x36 scientific posters, an A2 academic poster and a tri-fold poster, all with clean multi-column layouts and figure blocks.
Free LaTeX templates for astronomy and astrophysics: RevTeX, AASTeX, MNRAS, arXiv preprints, telescope observing proposals, NASA grants and colloquium talks, with previews.
Free LaTeX lab report and lab document templates for 2026: physics, chemistry, biology and geology reports, plus lab notebooks, protocols/SOPs and safety manuals.
Free LaTeX letterhead and formal letter templates for 2026: business, academic, law-firm and creative letterheads, plus cover, recommendation and resignation letters.
Free LaTeX grant proposal templates for 2026: NSF, NIH, ERC, NASA ROSES, NSF GRFP, telescope observing time, and data management plans, with previews.
Free official-style university thesis and dissertation LaTeX templates for 2026: MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, IITs, BUET and more, with previews.
The best free LaTeX research paper templates for 2026: IEEE, Springer LNCS, ACM, Nature, Elsevier, RevTeX and AASTeX, all compile-tested and editable in your browser.
Free, elegant LaTeX marriage biodata templates for 2026: modern, traditional, Hindu, Muslim, Christian and South Indian formats, editable in your browser with previews.
178 free LaTeX resume and CV templates for 2026: ATS-friendly, role-specific, and 37 country formats from Lebenslauf to rirekisho. Filter and edit online.
Why do astrophysicists use LaTeX? Because equations, journal classes (RevTeX, AASTeX, MNRAS) and arXiv demand it. Here is the exact modern setup, and the templates to start from.
Every limit on the Overleaf free plan in 2026, which one a thesis or a group project hits first and why, and how to move a project out of Overleaf.
Typst vs LaTeX in 2026: the same document in both, what each does better, what arXiv and journals accept, how to convert, and which to pick for your next paper.
Convert LaTeX to PDF, Word or Markdown, and back, for free: compile online for the PDF, Pandoc for Word and Markdown, AI to rebuild a PDF. Commands to copy.
What happens when co-authors type in one .tex file at once and one presses Compile: CRDT sync, latexmk on TeX Live 2025, SyncTeX, history and Lexi.
LaTeX editors are built for papers, not courses. Why the invite-link model strains at 150 students, and how to run a class on LetX with free collaborators.
Courses run by the term but software bills by the year. How to pay only for the months you write, and what LetX sells: monthly plans you can cancel.
Grade 150 LaTeX submissions without fixing broken builds: one starting template, projects shared from week one, one build rule, and fast error triage.
Security, single sign-on and cost: what a university department should ask before it buys a LaTeX editor, and where LetX stands on each one.
Seven problems co-authors hit in shared LaTeX projects, from Git merge conflicts and overwritten files to missing figures and clashing macros, with fixes.