What's on my iPad as a PhD Student (Zotero, PDF Expert, OneDrive)

In this video I talk about some of the apps I use on my 2018 iPad Pro. Most of these apps you will be familiar with but there are a few apps I use specifically as a PhD student. Hopefully these apps will be useful for you as well on your academic journey!
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[@stirewaltalex]

Awesome, I’ve been waiting for a video like this. Thanks!!

[@MrFischvogel]

You are such a cool guy, Jonathan : )

[@Ash-ho1kw]

Thanks i didn’t know there is a zoteron on ipad 😅im grateful now it’s easy to sync rather than air drop

[@jonathanyuanyt]

Glad I could help!

[@DJ_BROBOT]

thanks for this...Im a doc student too, and having widfgets and everything on the screen serves as a distraction...and having too many of the productivity apps serves as a distraction too. Were kinda in a different space than those doing computer, web or design work.

[@jonathanyuanyt]

Always cool to meet other phd students! What are you studying?

[@thepoliticalgita6512]

Thanks. Was very helpful.

[@theamarothman]

I started my PhD last November, and I think I'm losing my mind, reading and doing so much on my laptop screen, my back hurts, my butt hurts. I'm getting an iPad just for the sake of reading papers and doing annotations.

[@jonathanyuanyt]

haha it takes a while to get use to the amount of readings in a phd program. What are you studying and what school do you go to?

[@iliyawho5516]

Me too…my neck hurts so much that I bought an iPad today

[@twilight7457]

@@iliyawho5516 Does the iPad solve your hurting problem? Not sure it would.

[@truthseeker1765]

Hello Jonathan, I am your subscriber from India 🇮🇳 , really like your youtube videos , kindly make more PhD videos and study videos . Really like your videos You are doing a great work .

[@jonathanyuanyt]

Thanks for the support :)

[@oknot4368]

Sir, What do you study as a Ph.D. student and how can we become a scientist, what is the need for scientists in this era, how can we contribute to the scientific societies, and how do study some study tips, Online resources to study generally about anything, The best websites you found Some great tools for laptops, Love From Pakistan,

[@blacks5646]

Hi, how do you sync Zotero, pdf reader and one drive together? I have premium storage for Zotero but I do not like Zotero's pdf reader.

[@bananamamajamak]

May I ask why you’re using the PDF app to read and annotate and not directly on Zotero? Is there something Zotero is unable to do? Thank you!

[@psottto]

Hi, i have also made a custom folder on my one drive for Zotero files but it saves pdfs with random codes instead of pdfs names and when I want to access them via pdf expert on my iPad its very difficult to find them, how did u do for Zotero saving ur pdfs with og name?

[@tom22333]

Thanks. Was wondering if I could markup pdfs in the cloud (google drive) and save them directly. Do you pay for the zotero storage?

[@angieamarillo]

do your highlight lines go straight and can you use a keyboard to highlight or does it have to be finger or stylus crooked highlights?

[@bethanymoffatt2107]

Thank you for sharing. So helpful. Can you explain why you would need both Zotero and PDF Expert? Couldn’t Zotero take care of your annotation needs? TIA!

[@jonathanyuanyt]

Unfortunately zotero doesn’t allow you to hand write notes. But if you don’t need that then it’s a totally fine app to use to annotate.

[@quannguyenh2899]

how can i insert reference in word version on ipad? tks

[@sergeykizilov38]

Hi Jonathan, please, in next video add reference from App Store in description.

[@thierryhugh1034]

Hello! Thanks for this nice video! I wonder if you know how to extract the typebox (aka 'text' or 'typewriter') annotations on PDFexpert into Zotero notes? As far as I know, Zotero is limited to extract highlights, annoataions, lines etc., but not typebox. I have been searching it for a while, but can not find a way (a plugin or so) to do this.

[@Petronya]

Have you found a solution to this?

[@alikogani908]

Hi, I am also a PhD student in Canada. I am trying to add oneDrive for PDF expert. I will log in to my university account for adding onedrive in PDF expert, but it says you need approval from your admin! Have you had the same problem when you start using it?

[@melphillips1608]

How do you get rid of icons/widgets on screen?

[@travelthetropics6190]

Can we use Zotero without an account and directly keep Zetero datafiles in onedrive. In PC I used like that but can't figure out in IPad

[@hairuo]

Without Zotero APP in iPad, we can use zotefile with Zotero in PC and Syn through OneDrive, open PDF Expert to read any PDF files. With Zotero APP in iPad: I think without an account you can't syn all the items between your iPad (here I mean Zotero APP instead of PDF Expert) and PC. If you have an account and pay the storage of Zotero, you can both syn all the items and PDFs. My question would be that, if you have an account but just would like to use OneDrive instead of storage of Zotero online, how could we connect PDFs between Zotero APP in iPad and PC ?

[@JosephSalmoiraghi]

How did you declutter your ipad screen, and just have the apps in the dock? Can't seem to google anyone who has done it or any walk throughs on how. thanks.

[@jonathanyuanyt]

You can just drag and drop the app from the main ipad screen to the dock.

[@jehancorre]

Hi, I only have ipad pro at the moment and I found out I could not use Mendeley on ipad so I was thinking if there are other limitations to my device that i would still need to get a laptop eventually. What do you think? I only need this to do my thesis for my masters. Thank you.

[@jonathanyuanyt]

If you need to do any statistical analysis using statistical software I don’t think your iPad would be helpful. You probably need a computer for that.

[@Krishnendulaha]

Is this PDF Expert app better than Adobe Reader?

[@jinamehta7850]

Can you link the keyboard? I’d like to get one that is not the crazy expensive Magic Keyboard for my iPad Air!

[@jonathanyuanyt]

It’s the Smart Keyboard from apple!

[@thepoliticalgita6512]

Hi Jonathan, How much space would you recommend to have in your iPad for a PhD student for reading and annotating? Like 64 or 128 or 256GB? Or more? Thanks in advance

[@Celebriel]

I am wondering about this tooo

[@literarystudies1861]

What size is your ipad?

[@twilight7457]

Hi, Jonathan: Do you use Goodnotes or Notability for note taking? One can also use them as a PDF reading by importing all the papers into Goodnotes, for example. Is PDFExpert much better?

[@jonathanyuanyt]

Currently I dont use either Goodnotes or Notability because it requires you to import everything into their file management system and honestly I was not a fan of that. I preferred PDFExpert cause it just accessed the files sitting in my windows folder directly.

[@melissag.1335]

👋 hi! is your stuff saved on iCloud?? I recently lost a 6 page paper on Microsoft like awful. I’m trying to avoid saving everything on a flash drive as well. What do you recommend?

[@jonathanyuanyt]

yup I save everyone through one drive. I have nothing stored on my physical computer or a flash drive. One drive is perfect cause your work will be safe regardless of what happens to your hardware. highly recommend :)

[@melissag.1335]

@@jonathanyuanyt Thank you for your reply! Do you prefer Google Drive? What do you like and use? Your videos are great by the way when I have time to watch.

[@aristarchuspk3774]

Would an ipad mini still be okay for reading and annotating articles?

[@jonathanyuanyt]

It might be a bit on the small side. I would recommend testing it out at your local Apple store and seeing whether you find the experience comfortable.

[@batoolhijjawi3114]

Hi Jonathan, Thanks a lot for your video. I am using the ipad pro & I want to install Zotero but I can not find it in the store. I can find only "Uploader for Zotero". Is it the same thing and what shall I do?.

[@jonathanyuanyt]

check out this site www.zotero.org/support/mobile. Currently it is still a beta app!

[@randomshorts72]

What pen did you purchase for your iPad for note taking?

[@jonathanyuanyt]

I just have the apple pencil

[@mahfudzahulfa3164]

hi, what is the storage size of your ipad?

[@jonathanyuanyt]

256g

[@TimmieTennis]

Hi, can PDF Expert add a blank page in a PDF doc?

[@malyedik2]

yes

[@jonathanyuanyt]

Yup it can

[@Dreadsage17]

I’m currently a PhD student as well and I find my iPad to be very distracting. It’s so time consuming to annotate an article by hand rather than just skimming it and typing notes on the side.

[@jonathanyuanyt]

What is your PhD in??

[@Almabee123]

How much storage does your iPad have?

[@jonathanyuanyt]

I have 256g and honestly it is way too much. Should’ve went with an option that had less internal storage.

[@angaymg8535]

Is 64 g is enough for phd scholar?