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Reading Papers with Me on My iPad for PhD Studies

In this video, the speaker shares how she reads papers on her iPad for her PhD studies. She provides information about the tools she uses and offers tips for organizing notes and plans.

Tools Used

• The speaker uses a standard 10.2 inch iPad and an Apple Pencil.

• She has a screen protector from Paperlike that makes writing on the iPad feel like paper.

• The speaker also has an Otterbox cover to protect her iPad.

Tips for Organizing Notes

• The speaker walks around with her iPad at all times to plan and get thoughts out onto something.

• She suggests doing a separate video about how she organizes all of her notes, plans, etc. using GoodNotes.

Reading a Paper

• The speaker reads a paper suggested by her supervisor that is similar to the type of work she is doing.

• She plans to read the paper in full and look deeply at the methods because it could potentially be used as part of a repeatability study with a larger data set than what was used in the paper.

Tips for Reading Papers on an iPad

In this video, the speaker shares tips and tricks for reading papers on an iPad. The speaker demonstrates how to use GoodNotes app to highlight important sections of a paper, take notes in the margins, and keep track of references.

Highlighting Important Sections

• Use the highlighter tool to mark important sections of the paper.

• Highlighting by hand feels more natural than highlighting digitally.

• Write brief notes in the margin using the pen function.

Reading Introduction and Related Work Section

• Read through the introduction and related work section.

• Group together references that go together and put a little note for what the reference was for them.

• Add relevant papers to your list of papers that you would like to read.

Conclusion

The video ends with music playing from 9:20 until 9:54.

Reading a Research Paper

The speaker discusses their approach to reading a research paper and how they plan to read the paper in full.

Approach to Reading the Paper

• The speaker plans to read the entire paper since they are interested in it.

• There is a pause in the video with no content.

• There is another pause in the video with no content.

• There is yet another pause in the video with no content.

Understanding Methods and Results

• The speaker decides to go back and read the discussion section's methods part because they were not sure how to implement what was given in the results section.

• After reading, they realize that there is potential for a project based on this paper, as some of its limitations do not apply to their data.

• They take a quick look at the code associated with this paper but find it challenging due to rusty skills.

Reflection on Reading Experience

• The speaker goes back over the results after reading through methods and writes notes on points that need addressing before continuing.

• They reflect that this paper will require multiple readings, particularly for calculating performance prediction time.

• This research paper will be used for replication study purposes, so understanding it deeply is essential.

Using an iPad for Reading Papers

In this section, the speaker talks about how she uses her iPad to read papers and take notes. She explains why she prefers using an iPad over a laptop and how it helps her stay comfortable while reading.

Benefits of Using an iPad for Reading Papers

• Having notes in PDFs makes it easy to remind oneself what was going on when reading through the paper.

• The speaker can chill more while reading papers on the iPad compared to being on a laptop close to the screen.

• Reading papers on the iPad allows for more movement and breaks up sitting at a desk all day.

Conclusion and Thanks

In this section, the speaker concludes her video by thanking her viewers and patrons for their support.

Conclusion and Thanks

• The speaker hopes that the video was interesting and helpful.

• The speaker thanks her patrons for making it possible for her to keep making these videos.

• The video ends with a simple "thank you" from the speaker.