7 insanely useful academic apps you've not heard about!

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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[hilde]

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 :)

[maurilindberg]

I really thought I knew a lot of tools - I was wrong - hadn't heard any of these before. Thanks Andy!

[asishreddy]

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 !

[emilyd]

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!

[angel]

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.

[Peale]

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.

[artscience]

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.

[mrinaliniroy]

Thank you for this, after having absolutely exhausted my good writing, and with deadlines mounting, you are a life saver. Thank you loads!

[spagoettios]

Mr. Stapleton you are the cure for what ails me. I never even got a masters degree and always felt like a failure because of a background filled with poverty. When you're brought up poor, nobody wants to network with you because you only have hard work and honesty to offer. Now, I'm retired from 3 jobs and making more than I ever did working. Thank you for the insight into all I thought I'd missed. I'm more than content with my Journalism undergraduate degree. You Rock. Thank you from a fan in Fairbanks, Alaska.

[mdasifrezwanshishir]

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 :)

[pianoboy]

Just got Writefull! Your channel is excellent! I started my masters degree and have been watching your videos! Thank you!

[MUTiger]

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!!!

[elizajberberian]

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!

[sandi_sandkorn]

I am a first year PhD student and I didn’t know any of those apps. Thank you very much 😍☺️

[edwardpashkov]

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!

[Barleygirl]

I wish litmaps would merge with readcube. The citation management along with what citations you may need to evaluate would be amazing!

[zimmejoc]

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.

[bc]

This is freaking great!!! Almost all of this also applies to people working in government, science, and no doubt other fields - PhD or no :)

[tbennnett]

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 ☺️

[jasonm]

Absolute gold Andy, you're a lifesaver.