The fact that your video is less than ten minutes and that you added a TL;DW in your description speaks for your sincerity :) Good video. Thank you. :) For me, - Notes using Google Docs, organized on my drive as folders. Its really good for note taking actually. - Reference Management using Mendeley. For my papers I usually have a bib file which I manually accumulate from Google Scholar. Latex does the formatting work. I am considering Zotero after you said so. - Diagrams using Dia (Linux) and Inkscape for graphics when required. Dia is very easy to use for flowcharts and block diagrams. Sometimes I create something on Dia and color it and add color and effects to it on inkscape. Just checked, and it seems its available for windows too. Maybe you can give it a try. :) - Presentations - Latex Beamer for technical ones. Google slides for the rest. - Microsoft To-Do and Google Calendar for task management. I have tried so many over the last three four years. - Google docs again for word processing. Latex for serious work, publications.
A great video! I'm nearing the end of my PhD - also a technophobe but I agree with all your recommendations! I would only suggest overcoming the Latex learning curve when actually compiling your thesis though - it is so worth not having to struggle through Word when compiling such a large document!
Could you please offer more insight on Latex? This is the first I've heard of it and would certainly like to know more considering our common struggles with Word. I'm taking my comprehensive exams soon and will be doing a lot of dissertation-related writing right after. A non-clunky, reliable software would be VERY helpful. What are Latex's main advantages?
hello madam, this is my first year of thesis, i don't know where to start yet. can you recommend only one writing software? (which will be useful, and sufficient for me)
best bit: You can put chapters in different tex documents and import them. saves time on compiling! Also, Overleaf is very nice as you can access your documents from wherever.
Why thank you very much young lady. I always find it amusing to see people talk about apps, but in reality, i will start to use them as you suggested. I just started my PhD and very glad I found your youtube. Thank you for that information.
My favorite apps are Grammarly and Easy Bib. Grammarly catches my mistakes in my 20+ page papers, and Easy Bib organizes, and archives complicated reference pages by subject. Also I like that I can switch from APA to MLA or Harvard on the fly. Thank you for sharing!
But now grammerly is worst than before! Before, when it first came out, they give u alot of checks for being free but now they just give you spell check and if you want to check the rest then you have to pay.
Especially for PhDs with a lot of maths. But only use it if you are just starting, I would not recommend learning it to write your thesis in the last 3 months because you do need to actually know how to use it. But graphics will stay where you put them, it looks neater and doesn't start crashing if you have any remotely high resolution graphics in there!
Also this appeared like I was attacking the video but I'm just being playful, they're really good and very useful and informative. That being said, LaTeX 4 lyf!
The PhDiaries quick question: do u use any kind of project manager app??? I’m asking because with all the stuff I’m having to deal at the same time, I’m loosing track of the different projects. Your advice would be really helpful!!!
As an older PhD, well done on your list. I find, as a Mac User, that Scrivener and iA writer are excellent for authoring, particularly Scrivener thesis length documents, and then export to word for final formatting
So I just started using Evernote after watching this video, it is immensely helpful so far. Way faster than loading a word document and you can still insert snippets of diagrams/tables/figures etc. It has been very helpful in organizing my rather messy brain. :)
PhD student here, one software that I've found very useful is SigmaPlot and Matlab. The first is very useful to graph data and keep it in very clean formats and the second will basically help you program anything for when you need to design tools for your experiments (also very good at analyzing and graphing data).
I'm currently doing a science research project for the end of my bachelors and started using endnote, and it is honestly amazing how easy it makes referencing. i used to struggle to reference and hated updating my bibliography every time i made a change, but endnote did all of that automatically. and if i needed to change the style? that happened automatically, too.
You're very captivating and cool. Suggestion is slow down, especially saying the name of the product. As I tell my students and colleagues when presenting. Realize that this is the very first time the audience (listener) is hearing your presentation. Speak clearly, articulating every word, and emphasizing words that deserve attention.
It's really amazing to see you and your suggested software. They are awesome, I noted the entire mention and going to download for my PhD study. Thanking you....
A few categories of applications that weren't included: Ebook Management: - Calibre ToDo List Application: - Google Keep - SimpleNote (tons of options here) Knowledge Management System - Roam Research ($) - Zettler - Zim-wiki
I've been enjoying your videos since I started working on a doctorate. I finished my masters before you started or I would watched you then as well. Sometimes I just want to reach through the screen and give you a hug because damn, girl, I feel your pain, and doctoral studies are a series of pains and disappointments. We need thick carpets to soak up those tears of broken dreams.
I use Rstudio and Latex. I can get the output in a number of formats (html, Word, pdf ). Also in Rstudio I am able to mix text, R code and Latex code to get the document I want.
Thank you very much for the video, personally I use: - Evernote and "Keep note"/ For notes - LaTeX/ Writing - Dia and PowerPoint/ For vector drawings under LaTeX - Qbserve/ Time monitoring - Zotero/ References manager.
A quick horror story about MS Office from my freshman year: a night before the deadline, I'm adding the final touches to my first academic paper that took me like 3 months of work and then power shuts off and I see sparkles on my laptop's cable. It shuts off too, the cable is burned, AND I DIDN'T COPY MY WORK TO ANYTHING. I spent like 2 hours running from room to room in my dorm (my dormmates were so kind and tried to help me find a cable matching my laptop). The deadline was at 10 am and that grade affected my semester grade and stipend so I asked my roommate to borrow her laptop, sat at our dorm's kitchen at 3 am and rewrote the whole paper from scratch (glad I remembered most of it). That was a wonderful experience, so now I write everything in Google Documents (it saves your doc after every change you make and you can work everywhere just by logging into your google account) and edit it in MS Office after Don't make my mistakes please
You can also put your documents in dropbox. And if you want to learn something new, learn to use latex and/or markdown, zotero, pandoc, and git. Then create remote git repos with projects, commit often, and forget the stress. And keep your references updated in zotero with their browser extension as soon as you decide to use a paper. Extremely worth the time to learn (even for non-programmers!), At the very least for your mental sanity
Don't know if I'm being really obvious here but for handling datasets and generating graphs from them, do not use Excel, there's a program called Origin that makes much nicer images and has peak picking features that Excel doesn't, so it's really useful if your work involves any kind of spectroscopy. Made some quite nice IR, UV/Vis and TGA images during my PhD!
I am completely stunned by the beautiful artwork that you created using Keynote and I have access to Illustrator and Affinity Designer! I have completely underestimated the software. Thank you for the suggestion.
This is the first video from u that I watch. And... I can really say that your personality is awesome. Really. So interesting to listen to. Hahaha, great apps!
Great suggestions. Evernote is good but is not free if you want to use it on more than two devices. I use Joplin which is very similar to Evernote and is free and opensource. I previously used Evernote but have exported my files to Joplin. It allows for more privacy since you can keep your data on an encrypted server. I sometimes use it in conjunction with the Joplin Web Clipper browser add-on that allows me to copy entire properly formatted web pages to Joplin. Instead of Microsoft Word, I use LibreOffice which has similar programs to Microsoft Office and is also free and opensource. You can save files in Word or Excel format etc. It has never let me down. Draw.io can be useful if you have to create flowcharts or other diagrams
I do understand people are comfortable enough surrounded by microsoft or mac developments, but once you take some few seconds to integrate to the open source world your life gets to the level of "everything is possible": - First in the list: Change to TeX inmediately. I guess 10 years ago may seem hard and nerdy to do that. But today there is no excuse to say "it is too hard". Second, if you want to have a great collaborative enviroment, i.e. co-workers, supervisor, co-advisor and you (assuming student), there are online tools like Overleaf and Sharelatex that can help you and your supervisor to comment and make notes (even using the %). So, try LaTeX and don't delay the pain! And a plus to those using LaTeX: Download the app Detexify inmediately! You don't want to google how to writte a specific greek or Roman letter! - I do agree Evernote is amazing! - Try a collaborative projject manager if your institution has: I use projectplace. - A must to have for images: GNU Gimp (if you dont want to pay illustrator) and Inkscape! And if you want to do Posters please download Scribus! With all these tools you dont need that crapy MWord, no need to use any microsoft office tools!
Is it really that hard to learn LaTex? OK maybe it was difficult at first, but after a couple of weeks of googling everything you needed it really is not that difficult. I feel like the whole world should use LaTex. It really is not THAT difficult especially with the loads of message boards and information out there. It is so much cleaner than Word.
LaTeX is certainly not hard to learn, especially when so many people learn html and css for their webpages these days. It's quite comparable. The results you get out of the box are so far ahead of what word can do it's not even funny. If you want to make professional-looking documents, then you have to deal with some idiosyncrasies (I can't wait for LaTeX3), but on the other hand I've never seen a thesis get rejected because it didn't look professional enough, so you only have to go as deep as you want to go.
Yep, I dumped MWord and Windows at all two years ago and I'll never go back. It's not only for tech people, I'm a history major and changed overnight and only broke my computer twice!
i use the sectograph app instead of an assistant. you put ur schedules on google calender and it makes it easier to view your appointments and tasks. really nice.
I also typed every reference from google scholar. It was a chore. Wish I had known about this earlier. In the future, I will use a reference manager app.
Good list of software. Get rid of word from the list. Latex is the way to go. Inkscape is also quite powerful for a free software. I would add notepad ++ to the list
Plz this is my what's app no 03369500315 please re write the the apps name and send me on Whatsapp because i don't understand ur language because you are so fastly speaking
Really helpful, saved me a shit load of time. As a former Ba/MA student I also highly recommend Keynotes, made full animations as well as flat graphics...Yes mac Pages is so much easier and reliable, and I too hate MS word, but I'll take your advice, and get a copy via University
Google docs is actually a great alternative to word. Easier to use, free, syncs with all devices, works on and offline. And can share, sync edits, and comment exactly like word for what lunch showed. No worries about $ or subscription and can save/export as word docs and can also open/import word docs. I use it for all my paper writing and is amazing when you have an idea for a revision and can just open your phone and do it right away. I've actually constructed major arguments in bed and in the bathroom. 👌
Tyler Branston totally agree, and combining it with paperpile for managing/inserting citations it's even better. The only downside I see with Google docs (unless google already fixed it) is the lack of a tool to insert subtitles to your figures/tables and the ability to cross reference them across the entire document, so that the numbering gets automatically updated when you insert a new figure.
sofi fledermaus not sure if I fully know what you mean. But you can add numbered footnotes throughout your document. And if you need to add or remove footnotes they automatically adjust the number based on where you add/remove them.
Google docs for centralized, always-current collaboration is priceless.. and an order of magnitude better than the MS stack. We use it exclusively within our university group.
Google Docs has some good points - its excellent with simple text and for collaboration. But to use it as the main text editor? No! It is slow and bad with graphics and footnotes/endnotes. Also no way to automatically generate an index
I love Paperpile. Integrates in your chrome-browser and with one click it downloads a pdf, saves it in your google drive, puts it in a fully searchable database and has all the bibtex stuff you ever need.
Though LaTeX might have a learning curve you will spend a lot less time in the long run whilst dealing with such editing and formatting issues. Especially if your subject is in the Sciences or Mathematics. The more you learn, the more customised you can make it for yourself.... and its free. As for the bibliography, LaTeX pretty much does all the hard work for you, if you have Mendeley you have import your whole library to a .bib file which will stay with you for as long as you need, and you just keep adding papers as your require.
Yep! You nailed the top few I used in my PhD... Note taking app (google keep), google calendar, word, zotero. However, I would also throw in a recommendation for a convenient, non specialty data analysis tool like graphpad
For me I wish I knew about Google forms. For non complex research I think it simplify the process, eliminates errors and gives you power to scale your coverage.
Google docs is my go-to over word, syncs across all my devices and I have few problems. not to mention how advanced it's collaboration features are. However it does lack a handfull of features than word, but the ones you need you'll not find yourself missing.
i love note taking apps like one-note or evernote, but the problem starts when u are at different places and cant always take notes with your laptop but with different devices occassionally.
Very good video, i would like to add - have a backup of your work just in case. - for science fields, Matlab & Simulink are indispensable tools . - the humble (MS Paint) will save you great time in reducing size, cropping, and simple image edit.
If Matlab is too expensive, there are potential alternatives such as the Python, Octave (which has the same as syntax as Matlab, I believe) Julia programming languages and their corresponding environments and libraries. I recently wrote a Python script using a library called Bokeh for generating dozens of plots. (I preferred Bokeh to Matplotlib in terms of plotting capabilities.)
This is my first time enjoying your RUclips channel. Great work! I’m looking forward to more great content from you. Thank you so much for this informative video! I got so much out of it.
A good project management tool is another suggestion. I use planner which comes natively with Ubuntu but I can only imagine free or low cost alternatives exist for Mac and Windows.
Absolutely. Dumped ALL of my Articles into scrivener and the used a side-by-side screen to notate when I was beginning my literature search for my dissertation. Also, used it for comprehensives. Put all the notes in and then color coded each group of notes as to how well I knew them. Aced comps because of Scrivener.
@@MrMeraby I had no idea Scrivener did this! I've been using it for several years (on and off for various projects) but having just begun a PhD, haven't fully explored the options in the program. Thank you!
Thanks! I use Zotero too and suggest only create the list when you are done or it can get messy. Also give it an eyeball that nothing is missing. :-) Wish they had an iPad app. Tryout out Papership
One item to note, you don't quite have to start from scratch if you get Endnote and then move to something else. You can always save your database in a raw file form and the upload it into whatever else you decide to use. Yes, any papers you currently are writing will no longer be connected to the source (so finish your papers before hand and then remove the fields!), but that's true with most any software (or so it was a few years ago before I chose Endnote).
Hi Lucy, thanks for all your PhD experiences sharing with us - they are honest, and very wise thus helpful tips for all of us in pursuit to PhD degree ... All the best to you :-)
Hii Dr Lucy you exceptionally Cute and the manner in which you are talking and it is truly marvelous to make sense of the things.. Keep it up.. Much Love.
Thanks for reminding me about Evernote. I used EndNote during my masters and it was so helpful - and way better than Word for writing lecture notes. Sad confession time: I enjoy manual referencing. It brings me calm - I don't know anyone else who agrees with me, mind you.
She is the Real Life Hermione!
stop being a simp.
"The best bit is it writes your bibliography for you"
_Laughs in LaTeX_
Haha.. Good one. I am also a big fan of latex. Just hate word
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For the love of god, don't write a thesis in Word. Use LaTeX, it's the right tool for the job
Thank you, Lucy, I think even if you focus on Ph.D. students, many other regular students can benefit from this content I found it to be useful.
The fact that your video is less than ten minutes and that you added a TL;DW in your description speaks for your sincerity :) Good video. Thank you. :)
For me,
- Notes using Google Docs, organized on my drive as folders. Its really good for note taking actually.
- Reference Management using Mendeley. For my papers I usually have a bib file which I manually accumulate from Google Scholar. Latex does the formatting work. I am considering Zotero after you said so.
- Diagrams using Dia (Linux) and Inkscape for graphics when required. Dia is very easy to use for flowcharts and block diagrams. Sometimes I create something on Dia and color it and add color and effects to it on inkscape. Just checked, and it seems its available for windows too. Maybe you can give it a try. :)
- Presentations - Latex Beamer for technical ones. Google slides for the rest.
- Microsoft To-Do and Google Calendar for task management. I have tried so many over the last three four years.
- Google docs again for word processing. Latex for serious work, publications.
I'm a 19-year-old undergrad who is writing his 1st paper. I found this video to be insanely useful. Thank you.
A great video! I'm nearing the end of my PhD - also a technophobe but I agree with all your recommendations! I would only suggest overcoming the Latex learning curve when actually compiling your thesis though - it is so worth not having to struggle through Word when compiling such a large document!
I am not a mathematician or a physicist. I am a theologian and wrote my master's thesis in LaTeX. It was wonderful.
Could you please offer more insight on Latex? This is the first I've heard of it and would certainly like to know more considering our common struggles with Word. I'm taking my comprehensive exams soon and will be doing a lot of dissertation-related writing right after. A non-clunky, reliable software would be VERY helpful. What are Latex's main advantages?
@@apoorvajoshi9216 typesetting is easy. Word is okay for small docs, large docs = latex.
hello madam, this is my first year of thesis, i don't know where to start yet.
can you recommend only one writing software? (which will be useful, and sufficient for me)
best bit: You can put chapters in different tex documents and import them. saves time on compiling! Also, Overleaf is very nice as you can access your documents from wherever.
Why thank you very much young lady. I always find it amusing to see people talk about apps, but in reality, i will start to use them as you suggested. I just started my PhD and very glad I found your youtube. Thank you for that information.
My favorite apps are Grammarly and Easy Bib. Grammarly catches my mistakes in my 20+ page papers, and Easy Bib organizes, and archives complicated reference pages by subject. Also I like that I can switch from APA to MLA or Harvard on the fly.
Thank you for sharing!
Ghost Hack Agreed, I found both tools to be easy to use!
Finally a short and clear video! Super helpful, thank you so much!
Great list! And I'll add Grammarly, for the non-native speakers :)
Or for PhD students from the States!
As a non-native speaker that use Grammarly, I STRONGLY recommend it!
But now grammerly is worst than before! Before, when it first came out, they give u alot of checks for being free but now they just give you spell check and if you want to check the rest then you have to pay.
yeah, it's my saver!
Grammarly is useless for PhD level
Obsidian is hands down the best app that I am using as a Ph.D. student. It syncs to Zotero and can import annotations into Markdown format.
I will start a PhD programme soon and your videos have been really inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
Very best of luck for your project! I'm really glad you find the videos helpful, thank you for telling me :)
Ignore what she had said, LaTeX is the way!
Especially for PhDs with a lot of maths. But only use it if you are just starting, I would not recommend learning it to write your thesis in the last 3 months because you do need to actually know how to use it. But graphics will stay where you put them, it looks neater and doesn't start crashing if you have any remotely high resolution graphics in there!
Also this appeared like I was attacking the video but I'm just being playful, they're really good and very useful and informative. That being said, LaTeX 4 lyf!
The PhDiaries quick question: do u use any kind of project manager app??? I’m asking because with all the stuff I’m having to deal at the same time, I’m loosing track of the different projects. Your advice would be really helpful!!!
Thank you so much! Starting my PhD this month and this video is invaluable :)
I just binge watched a bunch of your videos. I wish I had found your channel a year ago. Thank you for your videos!
(3rd year Physics PhDying student)
As an older PhD, well done on your list. I find, as a Mac User, that Scrivener and iA writer are excellent for authoring, particularly Scrivener thesis length documents, and then export to word for final formatting
Scrivener doesn't do images, a major drawback
So I just started using Evernote after watching this video, it is immensely helpful so far. Way faster than loading a word document and you can still insert snippets of diagrams/tables/figures etc. It has been very helpful in organizing my rather messy brain. :)
PhD student here, one software that I've found very useful is SigmaPlot and Matlab. The first is very useful to graph data and keep it in very clean formats and the second will basically help you program anything for when you need to design tools for your experiments (also very good at analyzing and graphing data).
@Nikk RaiC Is it Mathlab or MatLab? Please let me know.
@@helpinghand123 it is matlab (it was autocorrected)
@@Nikkoloko86 Thank you so much!
for word users, citavi is can be used as well.
I'm currently doing a science research project for the end of my bachelors and started using endnote, and it is honestly amazing how easy it makes referencing. i used to struggle to reference and hated updating my bibliography every time i made a change, but endnote did all of that automatically. and if i needed to change the style? that happened automatically, too.
Brilliant!
You're very captivating and cool. Suggestion is slow down, especially saying the name of the product. As I tell my students and colleagues when presenting. Realize that this is the very first time the audience (listener) is hearing your presentation. Speak clearly, articulating every word, and emphasizing words that deserve attention.
Kicking off my PhD program this month, glad I stumbled across your vid, thanks for the great recommendations!
It's really amazing to see you and your suggested software. They are awesome, I noted the entire mention and going to download for my PhD study. Thanking you....
You have no idea how SOOTHING your voice sounds to me !!
Saw my adviser's citation there! Fellow planetary geologist here! Great video 👍
A few categories of applications that weren't included:
Ebook Management:
- Calibre
ToDo List Application:
- Google Keep
- SimpleNote
(tons of options here)
Knowledge Management System
- Roam Research ($)
- Zettler
- Zim-wiki
Another good thing to do to keep track of To-Dos: Trello
Just started my PhD yesterday. I have a feeling I'm going to binge watch every one of your videos now!! 🤗
Good luck Leanne
Congratulations!!
May i have your email? I started as well
I've been enjoying your videos since I started working on a doctorate. I finished my masters before you started or I would watched you then as well. Sometimes I just want to reach through the screen and give you a hug because damn, girl, I feel your pain, and doctoral studies are a series of pains and disappointments. We need thick carpets to soak up those tears of broken dreams.
I use Rstudio and Latex. I can get the output in a number of formats (html, Word, pdf ). Also in Rstudio I am able to mix text, R code and Latex code to get the document I want.
Thanks for the advice Dr. Lucy!
Your Videos are a story of success, humility and fun. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much for the video, personally I use:
- Evernote and "Keep note"/ For notes
- LaTeX/ Writing
- Dia and PowerPoint/ For vector drawings under LaTeX
- Qbserve/ Time monitoring
- Zotero/ References manager.
Nice to see another person using Dia. :) Really good for flow charts and block diagrams!
if you like latex consider using tikz package for small drawings
A quick horror story about MS Office from my freshman year: a night before the deadline, I'm adding the final touches to my first academic paper that took me like 3 months of work and then power shuts off and I see sparkles on my laptop's cable. It shuts off too, the cable is burned, AND I DIDN'T COPY MY WORK TO ANYTHING. I spent like 2 hours running from room to room in my dorm (my dormmates were so kind and tried to help me find a cable matching my laptop). The deadline was at 10 am and that grade affected my semester grade and stipend so I asked my roommate to borrow her laptop, sat at our dorm's kitchen at 3 am and rewrote the whole paper from scratch (glad I remembered most of it). That was a wonderful experience, so now I write everything in Google Documents (it saves your doc after every change you make and you can work everywhere just by logging into your google account) and edit it in MS Office after
Don't make my mistakes please
You can also put your documents in dropbox.
And if you want to learn something new, learn to use latex and/or markdown, zotero, pandoc, and git. Then create remote git repos with projects, commit often, and forget the stress. And keep your references updated in zotero with their browser extension as soon as you decide to use a paper. Extremely worth the time to learn (even for non-programmers!), At the very least for your mental sanity
I would have just given up at that point
How about using extra USB drive where you can save?
One thing about Inkscape, it's used by Jupyter to export pdfs, so if you code in Julia, R or Python, it will be handy to have for that reason alone.
Don't know if I'm being really obvious here but for handling datasets and generating graphs from them, do not use Excel, there's a program called Origin that makes much nicer images and has peak picking features that Excel doesn't, so it's really useful if your work involves any kind of spectroscopy. Made some quite nice IR, UV/Vis and TGA images during my PhD!
Hi Lucy, I love your presentation. Very animated, you ooz confidence that is contagious! Thank you.
I am completely stunned by the beautiful artwork that you created using Keynote and I have access to Illustrator and Affinity Designer! I have completely underestimated the software. Thank you for the suggestion.
This is the first video from u that I watch.
And... I can really say that your personality is awesome. Really. So interesting to listen to.
Hahaha, great apps!
Great suggestions.
Evernote is good but is not free if you want to use it on more than two devices. I use Joplin which is very similar to Evernote and is free and opensource. I previously used Evernote but have exported my files to Joplin. It allows for more privacy since you can keep your data on an encrypted server. I sometimes use it in conjunction with the Joplin Web Clipper browser add-on that allows me to copy entire properly formatted web pages to Joplin.
Instead of Microsoft Word, I use LibreOffice which has similar programs to Microsoft Office and is also free and opensource. You can save files in Word or Excel format etc. It has never let me down.
Draw.io can be useful if you have to create flowcharts or other diagrams
Hey I followed your suggestion and Joplin is amazing!!
I've searched a lot for an app like this, thank you so much 💖
@@sarajimenez3419 Glad to hear that Joplin is working out well for you.
Thank God its here now, but I needed it yesterday. Thanks Lucy
I do understand people are comfortable enough surrounded by microsoft or mac developments, but once you take some few seconds to integrate to the open source world your life gets to the level of "everything is possible":
- First in the list: Change to TeX inmediately. I guess 10 years ago may seem hard and nerdy to do that. But today there is no excuse to say "it is too hard". Second, if you want to have a great collaborative enviroment, i.e. co-workers, supervisor, co-advisor and you (assuming student), there are online tools like Overleaf and Sharelatex that can help you and your supervisor to comment and make notes (even using the %). So, try LaTeX and don't delay the pain! And a plus to those using LaTeX: Download the app Detexify inmediately! You don't want to google how to writte a specific greek or Roman letter!
- I do agree Evernote is amazing!
- Try a collaborative projject manager if your institution has: I use projectplace.
- A must to have for images: GNU Gimp (if you dont want to pay illustrator) and Inkscape! And if you want to do Posters please download Scribus!
With all these tools you dont need that crapy MWord, no need to use any microsoft office tools!
Is it really that hard to learn LaTex? OK maybe it was difficult at first, but after a couple of weeks of googling everything you needed it really is not that difficult. I feel like the whole world should use LaTex. It really is not THAT difficult especially with the loads of message boards and information out there. It is so much cleaner than Word.
LaTeX is certainly not hard to learn, especially when so many people learn html and css for their webpages these days. It's quite comparable. The results you get out of the box are so far ahead of what word can do it's not even funny. If you want to make professional-looking documents, then you have to deal with some idiosyncrasies (I can't wait for LaTeX3), but on the other hand I've never seen a thesis get rejected because it didn't look professional enough, so you only have to go as deep as you want to go.
Yep, I dumped MWord and Windows at all two years ago and I'll never go back. It's not only for tech people, I'm a history major and changed overnight and only broke my computer twice!
Is LaTex integrated wirh Zotero?
I don't know how much integration you'd like, but Zotero does export bibtex entries.
i use the sectograph app instead of an assistant. you put ur schedules on google calender and it makes it easier to view your appointments and tasks. really nice.
I also typed every reference from google scholar. It was a chore. Wish I had known about this earlier. In the future, I will use a reference manager app.
Good list of software. Get rid of word from the list. Latex is the way to go. Inkscape is also quite powerful for a free software. I would add notepad ++ to the list
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@@waqasahmad1165 TL; DW: Evernote, Zotero, Keynote, Calendar, Microsoft Word. Téléchargements pour les logiciels mentionnés: Evernote: evernote.com
Zotero: www.zotero.org
Mendeley: www.mendeley.com
Endnote: endnote.com
Adobe Illustrator: https: //www.adobe.com/uk/products/ill ...
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Really helpful, saved me a shit load of time. As a former Ba/MA student I also highly recommend Keynotes, made full animations as well as flat graphics...Yes mac Pages is so much easier and reliable, and I too hate MS word, but I'll take your advice, and get a copy via University
Just starting my PhD...this helps a lot...thanks...but your eyes are hypnotic..
This is a really helpful video! Thanks Lucy
Pls do video on any grammar correction checking app and plagarism
Google docs is actually a great alternative to word. Easier to use, free, syncs with all devices, works on and offline. And can share, sync edits, and comment exactly like word for what lunch showed. No worries about $ or subscription and can save/export as word docs and can also open/import word docs.
I use it for all my paper writing and is amazing when you have an idea for a revision and can just open your phone and do it right away. I've actually constructed major arguments in bed and in the bathroom. 👌
Tyler Branston totally agree, and combining it with paperpile for managing/inserting citations it's even better. The only downside I see with Google docs (unless google already fixed it) is the lack of a tool to insert subtitles to your figures/tables and the ability to cross reference them across the entire document, so that the numbering gets automatically updated when you insert a new figure.
sofi fledermaus not sure if I fully know what you mean. But you can add numbered footnotes throughout your document. And if you need to add or remove footnotes they automatically adjust the number based on where you add/remove them.
Google docs for centralized, always-current collaboration is priceless.. and an order of magnitude better than the MS stack. We use it exclusively within our university group.
Google Docs has some good points - its excellent with simple text and for collaboration. But to use it as the main text editor? No! It is slow and bad with graphics and footnotes/endnotes. Also no way to automatically generate an index
Oh I've heard about evernote so many times but didn't know why people use it. I'll download it right now! Thanks
Try a markdown editor such as Typora as an easier alternative to LaTeX
I love Paperpile. Integrates in your chrome-browser and with one click it downloads a pdf, saves it in your google drive, puts it in a fully searchable database and has all the bibtex stuff you ever need.
Please make a video on BEST opensource resources for Ph.D.
I didn’t know about a reference manager. Many thanks
Though LaTeX might have a learning curve you will spend a lot less time in the long run whilst dealing with such editing and formatting issues. Especially if your subject is in the Sciences or Mathematics. The more you learn, the more customised you can make it for yourself.... and its free. As for the bibliography, LaTeX pretty much does all the hard work for you, if you have Mendeley you have import your whole library to a .bib file which will stay with you for as long as you need, and you just keep adding papers as your require.
Yep! You nailed the top few I used in my PhD... Note taking app (google keep), google calendar, word, zotero. However, I would also throw in a recommendation for a convenient, non specialty data analysis tool like graphpad
For me I wish I knew about Google forms. For non complex research I think it simplify the process, eliminates errors and gives you power to scale your coverage.
I have used Evernote for more than 6 years now and I can say I agree with her it is a great app.
Thanks a lot for Zotero!! Nice choice.
eyes so clear can literally see recording camera! damn!
this is such a great video, thank you very very very much !!!
Google docs is my go-to over word, syncs across all my devices and I have few problems. not to mention how advanced it's collaboration features are. However it does lack a handfull of features than word, but the ones you need you'll not find yourself missing.
You introduced things to me that I did not know about before. Thank you.
Evernote may have just saved my MA (and future PhD) life!
i love note taking apps like one-note or evernote, but the problem starts when u are at different places and cant always take notes with your laptop but with different devices occassionally.
Try Forest, Lucy. Its a time organizer.
Great video! Thanks for all the good tips :) The illustration you made is stunning!!
Thank you Lucy! Nice presentation
Nice video - concise and to the point.
The keynote recommendation was brilliant, thanks!
Very good video, i would like to add
- have a backup of your work just in case.
- for science fields, Matlab & Simulink are indispensable tools .
- the humble (MS Paint) will save you great time in reducing size, cropping, and simple image edit.
If Matlab is too expensive, there are potential alternatives such as the Python, Octave (which has the same as syntax as Matlab, I believe) Julia programming languages and their corresponding environments and libraries. I recently wrote a Python script using a library called Bokeh for generating dozens of plots. (I preferred Bokeh to Matplotlib in terms of plotting capabilities.)
João Gueifão Thank you Joäo I used Matlab and Simulink and C language in my work and they were great, i didn’t use Python yet.
Python also uses Matlab plot library, and with Jupyter notebook for traceability, it's my fave
Thanks for your sharing. Very very good choices for doing research.
Try scrivener. It seems very useful in managing larger files and can export to Word when you are ready.
I use Evernote, Mendeley, PowerPoint, outlook and word.
great tips !! I suggest one Statistical package, like Prisma, R,...
Before the start of the video i give you one star, at the end of the video i give you all the stars that i can see in the sky. Stay blessed.
I might be an anomaly in my field (theology), but I wrote my master's thesis in LaTeX. It was wonderful.
Ya very nice it helped me a lot
I too completed my second year in my PhD..thanks for sharing..continue your work all the best
Excellent Lucy
Scrivener is an excellent drafting word processor (in addition to Word).
This is my first time enjoying your RUclips channel. Great work! I’m looking forward to more great content from you. Thank you so much for this informative video! I got so much out of it.
A good project management tool is another suggestion. I use planner which comes natively with Ubuntu but I can only imagine free or low cost alternatives exist for Mac and Windows.
You forgot the most important one: Scrivener
Absolutely. Dumped ALL of my Articles into scrivener and the used a side-by-side screen to notate when I was beginning my literature search for my dissertation. Also, used it for comprehensives. Put all the notes in and then color coded each group of notes as to how well I knew them. Aced comps because of Scrivener.
@@MrMeraby I had no idea Scrivener did this! I've been using it for several years (on and off for various projects) but having just begun a PhD, haven't fully explored the options in the program. Thank you!
Thanks! I use Zotero too and suggest only create the list when you are done or it can get messy. Also give it an eyeball that nothing is missing. :-) Wish they had an iPad app. Tryout out Papership
One item to note, you don't quite have to start from scratch if you get Endnote and then move to something else. You can always save your database in a raw file form and the upload it into whatever else you decide to use. Yes, any papers you currently are writing will no longer be connected to the source (so finish your papers before hand and then remove the fields!), but that's true with most any software (or so it was a few years ago before I chose Endnote).
Can u do a keynote/illustrator video on how you made the animation? 😊
Hi Lucy, thanks for all your PhD experiences sharing with us - they are honest, and very wise thus helpful tips for all of us in pursuit to PhD degree ... All the best to you :-)
Hii Dr Lucy you exceptionally Cute and the manner in which you are talking and it is truly marvelous to make sense of the things.. Keep it up.. Much Love.
Wow, I actually think i've used all of these tools plus the Writefull word add-in, made my masters 10x easier.
It is wowed !! I love your explanation
Thanks Lucy.
Hi dear , can you recommend some apps for graphics...thanks for informative video
If you want a FREE alternative to Adobe Illustrator, consider Inkscape.
Suggestions for some paraphrasing tool if any...
FOR MS WORD IMAGES: *TEXT WRAPPING!!!* LITERALLY THE MOST IMPORTANT THING!!
Thanks for this!!! I’m at the end of my coursework now but still have dissertation so any suggestions are so appreciated!! Thanks Lucy!
Thanks for reminding me about Evernote. I used EndNote during my masters and it was so helpful - and way better than Word for writing lecture notes. Sad confession time: I enjoy manual referencing. It brings me calm - I don't know anyone else who agrees with me, mind you.
I finished medical school using good old text books, paper, and fountain pens. Now I'm addicted to Evernote.
Many thanks for the video. Difficult to understand the first recommandation as the word 'Evertone' was not written. I hope to find more videos of you
Sure, nothing beats Adobe functionalities. But I have a graphic tablet, and I often use it in conjugation with Microsoft Paint and it works just fine.