The Powerful Way to take Notes as A PhD Student

This video is great! As a new incoming PhD student I have been looking for a great system to use to get a hang of all the reading! Thank you so much for this video, it was very helpful!

Very useful! Thanks Dr. Miles! Three principle of good note taking - take notes in your own words - 'irreducible' notes - connect the idea to other knowledge How to take fleeting notes - the source - the context (digested version)

I like how it's cloud based and how it can be traced to the original pdf source (unlike obsidian). And the interface can display permenant notes more clearly !

This is wonderful! I'm 4 years into my program and this solves so many issues I've had with organizing.

Very helpful to see a specific, real-world example. The PDF integration capabilities of your app make it an attractive choice for people who read a lot of papers!

I absolutely love this system for keeping track of research! Thank you for sharing!

Starting my Masters in Psycholinguistics next year and hopefully PhD not too long after. I have been using Obsidian for quite some time now, but I have really been looking for a program that would let me read PDFs in the same program as I take notes. I love this!

I'm very impressed with the app you've developed. Apparently, my mind doesn't work at all like yours. I have difficulty understanding what are the different types of entities and how they relate in your system. It just looks like a mass of notes and details. More specifically, I couldn't detect any "hierarchical" structure, which I've found as typical in most note-taking systems. - - - I guess what seems to be missing (for me) is come approach to "categorizing" your notes. Also, when you search for something, I would think you would get a long list of "Items" covering a large variety of related matters and it would take you some time to home in on the specific "item" you want. I would think that Evernote or Apple Notes would do a great job for your needs. No response needed - - - just offering a different perspective.

Great point about consistency and creating a work-flow that is effective but not high-maintence. Thanks for the time you invested in sharing this. Just subscribed to your channel for more great advice!

i already use nimbus note. im impressed with your app, i checked it out. I appreciate you can choose any color you wantto color code a text, thats what I never like about most other apps with its limited color pallet. good luck on development on a mobile app

You explained your system so clearly. It gave me ideas on how to improve my process. Thank you! (And great app!)

Thank you for sharing! Amazing thoughts that I needed.

Thanks for putting this together. I'm a seasoned Obsidian user but the examples you give will help me improve my workflows.

I loved this tool. Thank you so much

A word is used several times in this video, and for those like me who want to know the spelling: Zettelkasten.

this explaining is very good thanks

This was great, thanks for the video!

Wow I will save this for future. Your app is great 👍😃

How do you keep track of permanent notes in relation to each other as the system becomes larger?

Thank you so much! I wish I had found this at the beginning of my PhD, but it's still very useful and especially a fellow physicist as there's differences between us and many other fields