This video would be more useful for those PhD students who are
just starting their PhD, or they're in the early period of
their PhD. But anyone is welcome to watch this video. In this
video, I will be showing you three things which in my opinion
can organize your PhD. And I normally don't create suspense
in my PhD videos, I do this in my other videos. So therefore, I
have listed the topics here, because I know how important is
time for a PhD student. Unfortunately, most of the PhD
students, they don't realize this. And when they start their
PhD, they get some free time, they start to enjoy their life,
they start some new hobbies or new entertainment activities.
And these kind of students suffer later in their PhD. But
let's get started. And these three things are listed here. So
if you already know about latech, what is the importance
of a diary? And why do you use Evernote application, then you
are welcome to skip. But if not, we are starting just after this
short break.
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talked about some of these in my previous videos as well. So the
first point is latech. No, literally the typesetting
software, which we use for writing our thesis or our
research papers. So when we say it's free software, most
students, they tend to think that it's free, it might not
have any value. And the second problem is that it has a
learning curve, you need to spend some time to learn later.
So now here is the point, latex is not just free, it is the best
software for typesetting. Your document, the professional
quality you get in latex documents, you cannot achieve
this quality in any other software, including word or
OpenOffice or any other software. So you should realize
this, that latech is not just free latech is the best. The
only problem is the learning curve. So in this video, I'm
going to show you a strategy which you can use. And this will
not be a problem at all for you. Because the key point here is
that you don't have to learn all the latech latech is a very big
software, you don't have to learn everything. And this is
the strategy, which I'm going to show you. So this strategy has
three components. So the first part of this strategy is get the
latech installations on your laptop, or on your computer. I
normally use PC, I don't like laptops, but you can install it
on your laptop as well. No, I have a video on how to get the
latech working on your computer. And I will put that in the
description of this video. So you can watch that video. And
this part will be done and dusted within maybe two or three
hours. So before I explain the second part, the important thing
to understand for you is that you only need one template which
you can use to write your thesis. And then you need
templates for the organization such as IEEE, where you want to
publish your papers. The way we work on data is we prepare our
template. And then we use it again and again. I am still
using my lecture templates, which I created in 2008 after 11
years, and if you create some template in, for example word or
in OpenOffice, your templates will not work after maybe three
months. And they will definitely not work after three years, but
later templates there works for years. So this is the important
thing you should understand. You don't have to learn all the
latech you just have to create a template for you. So the second
part of the strategy is on your computer, make three folders in
folder number one, you will create a template called
Learning template, my learning template in folder number two,
you will create a second template called my thesis
template. And in folder number three, you will create
subfolders I Tripoli and other organizations folder where you
want to publish your papers the organizations which you are
targeting for your papers publications. So in the third
folder you will create templates for those organizations and that
I am not talking in this video. I have one video for I Tripoli,
which you can watch I will put the link in the description
installations and then making the templates for your learning
and thesis. So what is learning template learning template will
be your template which will be growing over time. So for
example today you learned how to insert a images in latex. So you
got some code, and that code is working. And you put that code
into your learning template. Next day you learn how to put
references in later how to make bibliography, you bought some
code, the code is working, you put that code into your learning
template. Then the third day you learn how to write equations in
later mathematical equations, you put that code into your
learning template. Now this code once working, is it for you.
That's it. If once you got this code, once you know how to make
this work, this will work forever for you. So this is how
you work in latech. So how to grow this learning template you
have to learn by watching other videos. For example, on YouTube,
there are hundreds of videos available on YouTube free, which
you can learn from on my channel, you will find many
videos how to use latech. And you don't have to buy any
courses. But if you do, I have two courses. And one is a short
course focused on PhD only how to write thesis and one is a
long, later course. So I will offer you a free coupon for the
short course which is for PhD. So that you can see in the link
of this video Udemy offers only three days, after three days,
this coupon will will expire. Unfortunately, they have changed
their policy. But I will put a link here and you can enroll in
my thesis course, which is a short course, for long course
you have to purchase if you want but you don't have to purchase,
you can watch free videos on my channel and you can still learn.
Now the third part of this latech strategy is that you
dedicate at least 30 minutes until you have finished making
these two templates, your learning template and your
thesis template. So this is your strategy about latech that learn
a little bit put into your template and then use it again
and again. Now on your thesis template, what you will do when
you start writing your thesis, now your focus will be to
towards your final document. And all you have to put only
specific things into your thesis template, for example,
Bibliography dedication page, abstract acronyms, glossaries.
So these are the things which are specialized for PhD thesis.
And all of this you will learn in this free course which I'm
offering to my YouTube subscribers, so you can enroll
in this course and you can learn. So this is it for your
latest strategy. Now let's talk about the second point digit
idea. diary one. What is this? Because I make a lot of videos
about PhD students and I have a lot of following on YouTube. So
students ask questions, what I realized is that if I could make
a diary for the students, because I have talked about the
importance of diary in my other videos, so why not create a
diary for these students. So now Luckily, with Amazon, on demand
publishing, we can do this. So therefore I decided to make this
diary. I just made the template of the diary and put it on the
Amazon website now from where you can purchase and Amazon will
publish it and send it to you. Let me give you a brief
introduction to this diary in this is a normal diary as any
other diary on which you can take notes. But in addition to
that, I have put some prompts for you. And those prompts will
encourage you to put some information on that diary. This
diary encourages you to do something to take some action to
record some information. What this diary has, will organize
your PhD for you this diary contents few pages where you can
record the meetings with your PhD supervisor. When this
meeting happened, what was the key point? Then this diary
contains two pages where you can write your target conferences,
your target journals, what experiments Do you want to do?
What surveys you want to conduct? What are the hardest
for your PhD? What are the top researchers in your field? What
are the possible paper titles you are thinking about? So one
day you got some idea about a topic of your research paper,
you can write that into that area of this diary because I
have provided these columns and everything where you can write
this information. So this will organize your PhD so that during
your your course a PhD you might need one or two diaries but you
will only consult these diaries and we will focus on your
studies. So this was a brief introduction to this diary. I
will put a link in the description of this video and
also there is a my Amazon in influencer page at the bottom of
this description where you can also purchase this diary if you
want, because there is some cost involved in publishing. So I
cannot offer you this free to you. But you don't have to
purchase this I have shown you how I made these columns, I have
shown you on the screen what is inside the diary, you can make
these columns on your own diary and then you can use that as
your PhD diary. Now the third thing I have mentioned here is
an application called Evernote for PhD, I want to use this
application only for one purpose. So therefore I'm not
explaining this Evernote application. In this video, I
have made another video in which I have explained a little bit
about Evernote, which is titled something like three best apps
or something like that you can watch that video. But the
purpose of mentioning Evernote here is very important that when
you are doing your PhD, sometimes diary is not with you
but your mobile phone is with you. So what you can do with
this Evernote is that you can quickly take the picture of
something and you can store it and this picture will be
permanently stored on the cloud. Because Evernote, even the free
version provides you some free storage. So you can take a
picture of something very important for your PhD and that
will be stored forever. Similarly, if you saw a
particular portion of a book very important for you. So
instead of writing that whole part of that paragraph into your
diary, you can take a picture of that. And then that picture you
can consider later on while writing a paper for example.
This is why I think is that Evernote is very important for
any PhD student to install and use it on a regular basis. So
you have to make this as your habit, otherwise you won't be
able to get the full benefit of this application. So these were
my three picks for you today that if you use these three
things, if you start learning later. Now if you start using a
diary now and if you start using this Evernote application, your
PST will be 100% organized and under your complete control. So
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next time.