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