
ACD ChemSketch, Avogadro are free ChemDoodle (trial) seems good. ChemDraw Alternatives from MacInChem here. * ChemDraw is fine on Win but remains limited on Mac.

Monster sized AI or PDF files created by inserting uncompressed images are not good for sharing - see file compression.

* Both DropBox and LRZ sync to most people’s hard drives, so don’t dump files on there without a reason and clean up your folders when you’re finished with them. If you don’t need everyone to access it, then don’t put it in our share folders. * Use LRZ for larger, project specific files that you need to share / make available to everyone (sum of all folders less than 50 GB). If any paper folder is much larger than 100 MB there better be a really good reason - final manuscripts + Supp Info should not weigh much more than 20 MB. Only put small filesize exports / processed data there, the minimum that your coauthors need to have, to work on manuscripts. * Dropbox folders (sum of all folders must be less than 2GB!) are reserved for preparing papers / grants, not for storing primary data. Once an email's to-do content is handled, archive it if it's worth keeping in a project-specific folder within a folder structure, but delete the others outright (or google Inbox Zero / Eisenhower Inbox to see how it's done elsewhere). * Li’s Rules of Organisation should also clarify that you have to have under 100 emails in your inbox at all times. Here’s a walkthrough to set up Thunderbird (Win or Mac) similar settings for alternative client Mail (Mac only).

* You need to use a mail client program running locally on your computer: checking email through a browser is NOT ok. Mail Client: Mail on Mac, or Thunderbird (Mac/Win)

20190817 (yyyyMMdd) and time format as 24h. Mail Client, DropBox/LRZ, ChemDraw, Zotero, Mac, Word/Powerpoint, Affinity, PyMol, Chimera, Problemsīasics: Set your operating system and all software to run in UK English for language and number format (decimal point not German comma as default) then confirm location as Germany, currency as €, keyboard as German, standard date format as eg. Good Usage Guides for Commonly Abused Software
