Protolyst

Academics regularly read and annotate papers On Protolyst you can search and connect all your annotations! And you're always only 1 click away from the original PDF #academicchatter #phdchat

Summaries make ideas hard to find Try saving each idea in it's own note

You don't think in Documents & Folders, you think at a finer level facts ideas quotes So why are we all still using Documents & Folders?

Synthesis > Summarisation

Knowledge mastery is an expert grasp and deep understanding of a topic It's not - fact recall, - memorisation - summarisation, it's how all these ideas, facts and concepts assemble together

References added by Default #academictwitter #academicwriting

Your brilliant ideas sparked while reading Are lost as soon as you close the page Get them out of the page!

Projects are interdisciplinary Information is needed in multiple places But Folders and Files make that hard You need a system that allows you to organise your information everywhere it's needed

To spot new ideas, you need to work with a lot of ideas

Content is a series of connected ideas, Some of those ideas are interesting to you So try saving JUST those ideas Not the entire piece with ALL the ideas

if ideas are the building blocks of your opinions, understanding and decisions Why are you still working with long documents?

Help your writing when you're reading Note down ideas Extract valuable information Connect the knowledge to your project When it's time to write, you'll have a collection of information ready to add to your page #academia

Embrace your inner child and play the 'why?' game to level up your learning If a statement stands out to you, ask 'why?' Make note of it You're starting to connect and absorb the material

Documents contain a lot of ideas But you can only navigate them up and down Tables let you cluster related ideas together Swap between Docs and Tables in a few clicks

You won't remember just by saving information Annotate and add your thoughts Build a connection to what you're saving

⚗ Distil important ideas ⚛ Save them as Atoms 👁 See them outside the Paper! #academictwitter

Ideas and knowledge accrue over time Springing up inside different projects But keeping related ones together is a challenge when they're all saved in different places! Try using Tags to start saving your ideas in multiple places

Capture and organise your highlights faster with Atom Filters and Drag and Drop #tooltip

Knowledge is power, but only if you can use it

Highlights needed updating So they now lift out of your page

As you discover information of value, Do you underline, add a star or highlight?