Helpful utilities and LaTeX tricks for working in Overleaf.
url fields from a .bib file\usepackage{shellesc}
\ShellEscape{grep -v '^[[:space:]]*url[[:space:]]*=' ./references.bib > ./references_no_url.bib}\
.svg figures to .pdfIf your figures are in SVG format, you don’t need to convert them manually.
With shell escape enabled, you can invoke Inkscape directly from LaTeX:
\immediate\write18{inkscape ./imgs/img.svg --export-type=pdf --export-filename=./imgs/img.pdf}
If you’re running over the page limit, you can slightly reduce line spacing:
\linespread{0.975}
Be careful — overdoing this may violate formatting rules. For conferences like ICRA, use only if absolutely necessary, and not in the final camera ready format.