Show Notes
SciSpace has become much more than a tool for chatting with PDFs. In this episode of the PhD Toolkit, we put it through a real research workflow to find out whether it actually deserves a place in your research toolkit.
We test how well it helps with literature discovery, understanding papers, note-taking, writing and overall workflow before scoring it on our PhD Toolkit leaderboard.
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00:00 Introduction
01:10 Setting up the test
01:51 Finding papers
04:56 Understanding papers
05:38 Saving ideas
10:23 Writing
14:32 Research Impact
15:37 Ease of Use
16:31 Value for Money
17:30 Workflow Integration
18:35 Would we recommend it?
19:09 Leaderboard update
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