7 insanely useful academic apps you've not heard about!
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- In this video, I go through the seven insanely useful academic apps that you've not yet heard about. These can be used for your PhD, research, or other academic activities to make sure that your PhD flows as easily as possible.
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0:00 - introduction
0:24 - paper digest (www.paper-digest.com)
1:43 - writefull (link.andrewstapleton.com.au/w...)
3:10 - Penelope.ai (www.penelope.ai)
4:47 - Litmaps (app.litmaps.co)
6:16 - Biorender (biorender.com)
8:01 - Otlet (otlet.io)
9:31 - Kudos (growkudos.com)
11:17 - Summary
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I'm one of the linguists at Writefull. Thanks Andy, for including our tool! Academic writing can be very challenging indeed, so it's great you're telling people about Writefull :)
Thanks so much for these apps.
Dear, how to get to know your RUclips channel or how to contact you?
thank you so much for this, quick question though....how does one use Writefull outside of the word doc...am struggling to add the add-in in my document...suspect the school might have whitelisted it the app
Share some jobs
Thanks 🙏 Hilde
Ok, I've made it this many years just watching youtube videos and lurking without subscribing, but I'm now officially subscribed to your channel so I never miss another update. Your videos have been so, so informative this past year as someone who returned for a Masters after some time, and is now writing up a PhD proposal. I'm currently working on my MA Dissertation Literature Review and Litmaps is a total game-changer, especially as a visual learner. And as someone with ADHD in a postgraduate programme as well, I'm looking forward to testing out paper digest more thoroughly as a way of helping to recall broader arguments or methodologies, which can sometimes be a bit harder to isolate for me than minutiae, especially with the volume of reading for a Dissertation. These all sound incredibly helpful and really looking forward to exploring them all further. Thank you for sharing these, and your consistently invaluable advice!
Latex can be a good way to take care of formatting issues without ever having to think about it. Overleaf really helpful on that end. Also most journals provide their format in latex nowadays, makes life so much easier.
Are you in the humanities or natural sciences?
Until my brother started his science degree, I had never heard of lateX. I can do nonsense in word, but the setup for lateX scares me a bit.
@@dorcasmalahlela2805 I'm in Engineering. I was really overwhelmed by latex too. Wouldn't have used it if our of my PhD level courses didn't make it a requirement for assignment work. But once I got over the initial discomfort, the availability of easy to implement templets was a major help. I use Overleaf, their interface makes it easier to handle. Also they have a vast collection of document templets to choose from. My university even has its PhD thesis template in latex( as one of the options), made it a breeze to just upload onto overleaf and just focus on the content and not worry about the formatting.
I use LyX, a Latex GUI. Better than overleaf and free, of course.
Wow! What a treasure trove of awesomeness you've provided here. I am starting my PhD journey and Writefull, Paper Digest and Litmaps are being downloaded as I type. Thanks a million Andy... I have subscribed, binge watched and cannot wait for further updates.
Thank you Dr. Stapleton! I was already using Mendeley and writefull for my thesis and I got to know about 2 other very important and helpful apps. Will definitely share among my peers :)
Loved biorender! As a doctor I’m always feeling sad about not having good diagrams to explain complex topics to students/patients. Thanks for that !
Thank you for this, after having absolutely exhausted my good writing, and with deadlines mounting, you are a life saver. Thank you loads!
Andy, thank you so much for making these videos (this one in particular). All of your videos are super informative and lessen the stress of grad school. Thank you a million!
I wish litmaps would merge with readcube. The citation management along with what citations you may need to evaluate would be amazing!
I installed the Writefull app, and it is free to word. It seem great and super helpful for the research paper that I have coming up! Thanks!
Zotero is a really useful app for aggregating all the papers you are interested in, organizing them in folders, and exporting references. I find it invaluable.
I'm thinking of getting Zotero. I used Mendeley back in the day. Have you tried both? Do you have a preference?
@@HWCWTD I like Zotero for its chrome/Firefox extension and its PDF reader. I export highlights out of Zotero into my notes database with the click of a button. Haven't used mendeley, so consider this only a pitch for Zotero.
@@HWCWTD Zotero looks dated but works well. Mendeley was bought up by Elsevier and while still free, its seems like they're constantly fiddling with it so you never know when it's going to work properly or not. When it does work I like it better than Zotero but there is a lot to say about Zotero's stability.
zotero is not helpful on a mac...at all
I've been organizing a pre-existing collection of 25,000+ disorganized files in Zotero. What an endeavour! Trying to get it shared among multiple users (all offline) is a challenge.
Just got Writefull! Your channel is excellent! I started my masters degree and have been watching your videos! Thank you!
I am a first year PhD student and I didn’t know any of those apps. Thank you very much 😍☺️
I am also first year PhD. What is your PhD about Sandra?
You are very helpful in all videos! Hope more people can explore you! Litmap was my favourite! I didn't know the others, thanks :)
I absolutely love all your content! I never came across such helpful insights!
For PhD Candidates in intensive writing periods like me, it's very helpful. Thank you. i appreciate if i hear your recommendation on paraphrasing tools
Great video! Thanks! All of these were new to me. I love how cutting edge your channel is. Thank you so much!
I’m an undergraduate student doing my research and I find all of your videos very useful! Thank you!🥰
Thx Andy, absolutely awesome particular the first four apps you mentioned. Please keep sharing the content.
Thanks, will do!
Thank you so much for your positive, uplifting and inspiring survey. This brings a smile to my face and gives me a little boost as I near the end of writing my musicology dissertation. Cheers!
Absolute gold Andy, you're a lifesaver.
Thank you for sharing these wonderful Apps, Andy.
Thank you Dr. Andy Stapleton . Through this you have enlightened and given me power to open up many knowledge windows. My deep respects to you for your kind sharing.
Andy, thanks so much. Its always great to learn from others and share with others. We need people like you to live for long ........................
Would you be able to do a video on making our scientific writing better?
Andy, I downloaded Litmap and it is a rocketship for my progress! In 4 hours I pulled up an enormous number of research articles that will be vital to my success. This is easily the most productive day I have had in my program. Litmap is rocket fuel!!!
what other tools like it have it tried and rejected? I've tried it and found it very difficult to use compared to simply browsing citations on semantic scholar. I've also fallen in love with semantic scholar's paper feeds feature, which you activate by adding papers to a library folder. I've bugged them asking for integration with other library management tools like zotero. but semanticscholar doesn't let me view an overview of things in a time vs citation-influence graph view the way litmaps does. I guess I'm curious what features you use.
RUclips is terrible for science because you probably won't be notified xD
Nice update, Andy! I second the request about how to make academic writing better, any suggestions for actual academic writing skills and citation apps? Citation is sometimes so hard!
For citation, Mendeley is really good!
Scribbr has actually become really good
Thank you, Andy, your videos are very informative and super helpful!
Love the energy of this video. Really helpful tips. Thanks!
Thank you Andy! This is quite useful.
This is totally amazing. I am in my last year of a Master's and only knew about grammarly... I will definitely be using 1,2&3. Thank you for caring enough to share ☺️
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, Andy. Such great content. keep going
This is gonna be so helpful. Thanks Andy 😁
Awesome stuff! I can't wait to check out Paper Digest!!
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I blew the whistle twice and went back to school and finished degrees after attempts were made on me and it took me four years to see the seedy side of academia.
Now that I know it exists its easier to navigate.
This channel rocks
I used Docear, which had a category map of references and a Word extension to manage in-document citations. It was an open-source project, for which support petered out. It looks like Litmaps, with a citation manager, could replace those functions.
Please what app can help me write a competitive statement of purpose or motivation letters?
What a wonderful content. Thank you for your work and everything you share in your amazing channel.
Thank you Andy. It was great help
Thanks, Andy. I didn't know any of the tools, so I'm looking forward to trying them out.
Thank you very much Dr. Andy for this helpful video at this moment of my Ph.D. journey. I did not know any of these apps. Especially the Litmaps and Paper Digest will be really helpful.
Would it be possible to create more content on the writing process?
Glad it was helpful!
This is freaking great!!! Almost all of this also applies to people working in government, science, and no doubt other fields - PhD or no :)
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Very fantastic information Andy. Thank you so much. I only heard Paper Digest and Kudos. I have used Kudos Add-on for MS Word.
I am new in RUclips. 🙂
Thanks Andy, im just start my PhD this year. Your videos are very helptfull
Only knew biorender from the list! Thank you for putting together these useful apps.
No problem! It's my pleasure!
Really interesting! Definitely will check some of them out
Thank you Mr. Stapleton. I could have used 5 of these apps 12 years ago during my dissertation process! I'll pass this on to my kids.
This is so cool mate!!!! Thanks 4 sharing!
Great job. Provision of extreme value. Well done. Appreciated.
Thank you Andy, this is so helpful!
Thank you Andy for sharing. All these apps are new to me.
Thank you! I'm certainly going to check out Paper Digest, Writefull and Litmaps. I think Paper Digest could save me a world of time!
Thank you very much for these treasures! I have just found your channela nd i'm binging all your videos. it is a sort of haha moment for me right now. please keep making such great content
Hi Andy, All were new to me. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for the great video, Andy! I haven't found a real, good RUclips video in a long time.
This video is so so so helpful. Thank you so much for these. I have never heard of them. I am going to share this video with my entire cohort. Thank you again.
Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks Andy for sharing the info about such useful apps
Your content is just outstanding Andy, really one of the best PhD-content related channels. Keep going. Hope you reach 100K fast.
Thnks, I just started My PhD studies, this is very helpful. Keep up the great work!
Oh way you're amazing! Subscribed
The algorithm just served your channel up to me a few days ago so I know I'm late to the party. When I first saw paper-digest, I was excited, but after about a week of usage, I have grown disenchanted with it. I wanted to use it to help prioritize a bunch of papers I need to read, but after about 3 to 5 papers summarized, I get repeated "500 internal service errors". This happens every time I try to summarize multiple papers. When I review the summaries, they aren't very good. The summarizing algorithm misses too many important details or tosses up some statistical analyses without proper context to really understand the point. In the end, it has not been the time-saver I was hoping it would be.
Litmaps, on the other hand, is FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!! It helped me turn around a revise & resubmit I received very quickly. You know good ol' reviewer 2 (it's always reviewer 2) made the criticism that I needed more up to date references in one of my sections. Litmaps made it a simple process to make sure that section was as current as current could be.
Thank you so much for such useful programs!
This is so helpful. Thanks so much for your help.
Love, Love You Andy... You are my go-to person for all things research!!!
This was so uber helpful! Thank you!!!
This has been helpful. Thank you so much.
Thank you very much again for your way to explain and give us very good advices!
did not know about writefull :D sounds helpful!
what really be great if authors of papers do a video to explain in lay terms and technical terms their paper, like a RUclips for research papers of some sort . thank you Andy
Thanks, Andy, for such helpful video :)
Thanks so much, Andy!
Absolute useful info. Thank you!
These are AMAZING! I think Paper Digest is going to be the most useful for me. I’m a neuroscientist in biopharma and sometimes I just have zero energy to catch up on literature. This is going to help me out a ton! Same with litmaps.
So so grateful, thank you for this!
Thank you for sharing this...I returned to academia late in life and these apps and sites are fantastic!
So thankful to the great effort you put in these videos. I am a head of a graduate program and I have recommended these extenstions to my students 👍
This is insanely helpful!! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and tips. I am doing research in the legal fields and finds that the tools you suggest are very helpful!
It is very helpful info. I appreciate it and keep up sharing your experiences.
My pleasure!
great info! thanks for sharing
Awesome Andy...you are saving my time
Thank you so much for the knowledge shared.
Really great and helpful! thanks so much!!!!
Very helpful video; thanks for sharing.
I have never owned any of those. Congratulations! A lot of research and insight in your videos
Thank you so much for the information
Never heard any of these! Thanks for the tips!
Thank you so much for sharing!!! I can’t wait to use them!!!
I knew none of these! This is such a great video to share with undergrads
Thank you
I'm writing the literature review of my research and Litmaps is being very useful. Thanks a lot.
I'm pleased that it is helping you out! They are a nice bunch of people!
Woah! This LitMap is so amazing!
I am really get it right now!
Thanks for the shoutout Andy!
No worries! Great application for finding and mapping research! Best of luck with it!
hey there is there any way to connect papers by related topic or key word rather than author. And, thanks for great advice Andy!
@@begumkeke8399 Hey, each line between papers are references/citations. In the top right map settings (small gear icon), you can change the label to show the paper titles for more clarity. Does that help?
Very helpful, as usual!
Paper Digest seems like the best tool to integrate into a PRISMA workflow while doing a systematic review...I can see the tool cut down database searching times drastically
Thank you for putting together an extremely useful list. Can you suggest some app for generating Astronomy diagrams.
Haven't used any of these, but they sound absolutely amazing!
Hey Andy, I just got you in my recommendation and thought not to waste time in video as every other rec claim it but watching, I went to comment section and you rock!!!
Bravo(
Thanks for your efforts; we are grateful. Best wishes.
I really thought I knew a lot of tools - I was wrong - hadn't heard any of these before. Thanks Andy!
So helpful. Thanks so much!