How I organize my research notes to write my PhD thesis quicker (& why OneNote is still the best)

Very useful tips. Thank you for sharing. Can you clarify the difference advice from Tip 1 vs Tip 4. In Tip 1 you say that you write in your own words as your read. However, on Tip 4 you say that you copy and paste the content without writing in your own words. Can you clarify when your work process focuses more on Tip 1 (eg, write as you read) vs Tip 4 where you emphasize cutting and pasting (without writing in your own words). Thanks again.

I noticed your audio is only in the right channel or mostly panned to the right. May I help you with audio engineering?

What was that plug-in you used to insert citations? Thanks!

incredible stuff @hira. thanks for the wonderful tips.

Immersive Translate is a fantastic tool for managing the literature review process. This web plugin translates documents accurately, broadening your research resources.

I just met you (30 sec ago) and I can safely say that I LOVE you. Thanks so much for taking the time to help other poor souls.

Thank you for your generous sharing. I am interested in the excel spreadsheet in Tip 2. Would you get the information of all paper you have read? Will it take a lot of time? If not, what kind of articles will you note down in your excel sheet? Will the brief thing of paper in Note column be the abstract of the paper?

Extremely helpful tips princess Hira. "Forgive me your highness, for I am but a monkey, and it is in my nature to climb. I did not mean to gaze upon you as you comb your hair." - Sheldon

Wonderful tips - thank you so much!

Life saving queen, thank you so much!!!

I wish I watched this at the beginning of my ph.d program.

You have given me HOPE for my dissertation… Thank you. ❤

Amazing! I'm obsessed by this way of organization, thank you so much!

This is FREE GAME

you're so smart, thanks for video. very sweet voice, was pleasant to listen the whole video ^^

Hi First Time utilizing this format for a research paper - Not staying organized has cost me a lot thanks for the format / video

this is gold!

I need a spreadsheet like that! would you share a blank copy?

In what order would you do these tips? I'm a bit confused between the Excel sheet organisation and the one-note organisation. Would you store everything on one note and then make an Excel sheet based on what you are going to use. Great video by the way ! :)

Great video!

Thank you for this amazing video! Helped me so much! ❤🎉

I wish I did this when I was starting out. 😭 Instead, I watched this really useful video now that I'm in the final months left in my candidature.

Hira, your short video on how you use OneNote has helped me immensly with writing difficult articles. I have ADHD-like symptoms that makes learning - and eventually, writing - difficult subjects. I've been working on an article on the Vagus nerve, trying to take notes from white papers, medical journals, reports ... and can't focus or organize anything. Your video really helped me. Unfortunately I didn't know what program you were using ... you never mentioned it. I eventually figured it out. Thanks so much for posting this. You ARE saving lives. - Roger

this is great advice. thanks!

watched this months ago and today again. thank you so much!

Hello Hira, thank you for the video. I do not quite get the differenc ebetween point 1 and 3 in your video. First you say that you rewrite the useful paragraphs straight away. In the third section you say that you just copy paste and rewrite it later only if it is useful your the thesis. Can you please clarify on that?

MashaAllah sister it is very informative.

Thank you so much dear, I am taking all the advice and now I am watching more and more videos how to organize on OneNote :)

Thanks for this video!

Hi dear Hira, its very interesting & informative. Pl let me know ur field of study.

Great ...

Do you ever print your docs or just go through them digitally? I'm debating whether to get a printer or just get an ipad for my phd.

Could you please tell us how do you create whose section in word ?

"I don't have anger" :)

"Please, we need more video explanations on your methods for reading and taking notes."

Thank you so much..could kindly tell what is the laptop you are using?

Why just using margin note 3 instead?

Don't forget to use a citation manager like Zotero.

Nicely presented! I use the copy/paste technique and was hoping for a faster way 🙃 I think I try to take notes on everything that even looks slightly possibly useful, and it slows me down

Thank you for such valuable information

Hi! Thanks you so much for create this video.
I'm a physics student and I'm going to begin my thesis but I was scared about how I will remeber all the information that I read. And your video helped me so much.

Useful video - thank you. But why ddid you say in the first part to write as you read then in the end say to copy paste notes and dont waste time rewriting? did i get something confused?

Thank you so much! I was actually looking for a source organising table, just starting my master thesis :)

A lot of videos promote using Notions and similar apps for note taking. Is that approach good or time wasting?
Also, I like the idea of using Excel to write down the name & url of the referencing source, but is there a way to group related reference sources together to make this achieving process more efficient?

Thanks, for sharing these tips Hira. Could you please also teach us how to use all the facilities/ options of Word for writing our dissertation from scratch? That would be very helpful for many people. Thanks, again!

I'm by no means a PhD student but as a writer this is an invaluable resource to help with organising research!

Very useful tips for Ph.D. starters and a very underrated video. It should have at least 1 M.

great, so practical and helpful.

Hi Hira.. Great resource for someone who is starting his PhD. Can you tell me, how are you talking notes in two pages side by side in OneNote? Thanks

Love it Hira, thanks for sharing!