How I Take Notes As A PhD Student | Is the new Zotero app for iPad better than Goodnotes?

→ How I Take Notes In Grad School

→ The new Zotero app for iPad

→ My PhD Note-Taking Work Flow in Zotero and Notion

→ Bye bye Goodnotes?

In this video, I explore the ways in which the new Zotero app for iPad has changed how I take notes in grad school. I've been a staunch user of GoodNotes, but now that I can take notes within the Zotero app, and then sync them neatly into my Notion, I've stopped using Goodnotes completely.

That being said, the two apps - Zotero and GoodNotes - have traditionally served two different functions. Zotero is a reference manager, and GoodNotes is not. Goodnotes is a note-taking app, while Zotero - up until now - has not. While I am LOVING the new annotation features in Zotero, it will be a while before the iPad app for Zotero is as sophisticated as Goodnotes when it comes to annotation features. For now though, I am happy to transfer my note-taking for my PhD over to Zotero, and leave Goodnotes for some personal journalling activities.

What do you think? Have you been using the new Zotero app for iPad? Do you like it? What tips should also be included in a video like this? Let me - and others in our PhD community - know!

Thanks, as always for watching, and see you again soon!

Holly x

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00:00 - 00:20 → Introduction
00:20 - 01:32 → My current PhD Work Flow
01:33 - 03:28 → Downloading references into Zotero for both Desktop AND iPad
03:28 - 07:05 → Annotating PDFS on my iPad using Zotero
05:38 - 08:02 → Syncing my annotations to Notion

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What type of content do you make on this channel?
I started off making Study With Me videos, then the channel evolved with some PhD Vlogs and Advice Videos, and then I started to document a little bit of my cancer journey... So now I make an unequal amount of all three :)

How old are you?
I'm 31 in theory, but thanks to cancer/the pandemic putting life on hold for a couple of years, I genuinely only feel about... 26?!

Where are you based?
I'm Irish, and a PhD student at an Irish university but I am currently in MANHATTAN, BABY!!!!!

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What type of PhD research are you carrying out?
Historical research into records of children's musical culture in Ireland

Which university are you carrying out your PhD research at?
All Hallows, College, Dublin City University