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 :)

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.

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 !

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.

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!

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

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.

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!!!

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 :)

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

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

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.

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 ☺️

Would you be able to do a video on making our scientific writing better?

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

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!

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.

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 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.

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

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

I'm writing the literature review of my research and Litmaps is being very useful. Thanks a lot.

Your content is just outstanding Andy, really one of the best PhD-content related channels. Keep going. Hope you reach 100K fast.

Only knew biorender from the list! Thank you for putting together these useful apps.

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!

Thank you. I hope you can make a video about academic writing.and useful free apps. My master supervisor always said that my writing is not good..

I’m an undergraduate student doing my research and I find all of your videos very useful! Thank you!🥰

did not know about writefull :D sounds helpful!

Thanks for the shoutout Andy!

Hey Andy, I recently got admission in PhD in finance. I am binge watching your youtube videos for past three days and it's been really helpful. I just wanted to ask you that as a PhD student in the field of finance, what else I can do that would ease my way for the next 3-4 years. Most of your videos are related to PhD in science and I just wanted to know that if you can help students like me get to know more about tools and techniques that will help me for my research in finance. Thank you, Lots of love from India

I'm not a PhD but involved in writing technical documents for certifications and production manuals/instructions describing every component in the electronics industry and struggled with "putting the card before the horse" many times. Very frustrating to a point where in one day I managed to only write one page and it still wasn't good. Along the way I found some way to improve this. 1. Don't start to write. Writing is your enemy. Forget about paragraphs and tittles. 2. Take a pencil, papers and an eraser and draw maps to get the concepts which need explaining in the right order. (can take hours or days for large documents with many interrelated details.) 3. Create the complete "story" without thinking to much about the right words in your head following the map. Sit back and think some more about the details. You might find places where the map is not complete or just wrong. Pretty bad because the map must be modified. But you didn't waste any time writing something and looking for words. After this very hard and at times difficult labor, writing has been reduced to a lexical exercise because the required structure onto which you can lean to write meaningful compact sentences and paragraphs is readily available.

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

Thx Andy, absolutely awesome particular the first four apps you mentioned. Please keep sharing the content.

Absolute gold Andy, you're a lifesaver.

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.

Thanks Andy, im just start my PhD this year. Your videos are very helptfull

The best video I got in my recommendations in a while! Thank you so much for this helpful video! My recommendations : Elicit - it is an AI research assistant that will help you find similar types of papers. It’s a great tool for initial research summary when you don’t know which paper is important or impactful!

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 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.

Great video! Thanks! All of these were new to me. I love how cutting edge your channel is. Thank you so much!

Wisio and sourcely have change my writing process … Thank you !!!

I'm just waiting for the date of my dissertation defense and I will be done with my PhD in physics. Unfortunately, my supervisor has not been at all supportive about me writing and publishing journal articles. I have a dissertation I am proud of, but all the many details seem so interconnected I don't know how to break it up into articles. I think I should have been taught that skill, but I wasn't. What can I do now? I writing itself is less of a problem than how to identify the smallest subset of the work that can reasonably be published and how to separate that bit out.

what really be great if authors of papers do a video to explain in lay terms and technical terms their paper, like a KZfaq for research papers of some sort . thank you Andy

Thank you for sharing these wonderful Apps, Andy.

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?

Can you do a video on bachelors vs masters degree.

How do you take care of your beard, dr. Andy?

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!

Thank you Mr. Andy Stapleton. Appreciations for your simple and easily understandable English for non-English speaking persons. God bless you friend

Thanks, Andy. I didn't know any of the tools, so I'm looking forward to trying them out.

I knew none of these! This is such a great video to share with undergrads

I have never owned any of those. Congratulations! A lot of research and insight in your videos

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

Love the energy of this video. Really helpful tips. Thanks!

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.

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.

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!

Andy, thanks so much. Its always great to learn from others and share with others. We need people like you to live for long ........................

Thank you Andy for sharing. All these apps are new to me.

You are very helpful in all videos! Hope more people can explore you! Litmap was my favourite! I didn't know the others, thanks :)

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 👍

All these tools are amazing and adding great tools to my toolbox right at the start of my PhD jouney

You need to make an app to help people grow that class A academic beard like the one you’ve got going there. Instant intellectual credibility. It’d be a hit.

Didn’t know any of these. I only ever really use Medeley and Chemdraw

Thank you so much for such useful programs!

Thanks Andy for sharing the info about such useful apps

Thank you Andy! This is quite useful.

Woah! This LitMap is so amazing! I am really get it right now!

I really liked the concept of vernalization app

What a wonderful content. Thank you for your work and everything you share in your amazing channel.

Really interesting! Definitely will check some of them out

Obsidian, hands down. Easy, beautiful note taking, can be used as a electronic lab notebook, links notes together, has plugins etc that allow Gantt and Kanban... The list is endless

Thank you, Andy. Such great content. keep going

Great job. Provision of extreme value. Well done. Appreciated.

Love, Love You Andy... You are my go-to person for all things research!!!

Thnks, I just started My PhD studies, this is very helpful. Keep up the great work!

Idolo!! Gracias por la info! Saludos desde Argentina!

This is gonna be so helpful. Thanks Andy 😁

Inkscape is a great freeware to draw your custom diagrams for scientific publications. I personally use it for my publications.

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 KZfaq. 🙂

I love them all.. didn't know about any of those

Thank you so much for the great video, Andy! I haven't found a real, good KZfaq video in a long time.

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(

Dear @DrAndyStapleton, could you think an examination video about PopAI tool? Thanks a lot. Regards, Arif

Thank you, Andy, your videos are very informative and super helpful!

I was not aware of Mendelay reference manager and Writefull which I will check out. I edited my bib files manually for my thesis!

Thank you very much again for your way to explain and give us very good advices!

Hi Andy, All were new to me. Thank you for sharing.

I absolutely love all your content! I never came across such helpful insights!

Oh way you're amazing! Subscribed

very useful video..Thanks for giving this video..

Oh my giddy aunt, you had me at Paper Digest!

Apart from biorender all new and boi will I use them - Thanks a lot!! One site I found helpful is connected papers as well similiar to litmaps.

Great tools ! Except for papier digest and litmap, i am very sceptical about going towards an aseptic and standardized understanding of papers... Then it depends on the algorithm but if litmap is based on citations there might be good papers that go forgotten. There is also a problem with papers being cited but the author don't really understand the paper and are just using it for a handy purpose...

Thank you Andy. It was great help

Thank you Andy, this is so helpful!

Never heard any of these! Thanks for the tips!

Thank you so much for the knowledge shared.

This is so cool mate!!!! Thanks 4 sharing!

Thank you so much for sharing!!! I can’t wait to use them!!!