For PhD Projects
Delivering a successful PhD, on time
Zenreader supports students throughout their PhD to deliver their thesis on time with excellent results and less stress. By having a state of the art knowledge capture engine, designed with productivity in mind, you make swift progress by keeping all your research insights in one place.
Successful PhD projects
Picking the right tools and developing the right skillsets, early on. Read about the key to a successful PhD project.
Starting out a PhD?
Continue reading this page to find out how Zenreader can support you during your project.
Already started a PhD?
Add Zenreader as a tool to your existing workflow to improve your productivity. Contact us for support on integrating with other tools.
For Supervisors & Support Staff
Support your students with state-of-the-art research software & research training. Find out how.
Research faster with deeper understanding & insights
Develop a deep understanding by having quick access to all of your documents, notes and tags. With Zenreader you build a database of all the documents you read, organising all your highlights and notes using a powerful Tagging system.
Tag your snippets and documents, Zenreader organises them for you automatically.
Discover trends
You apply tags to your highlights & notes. By looking at the resulting network of notes and documents you quickly begin to identify themes and trends.
The similarities across papers become highlighted and the gaps become also very obvious, making it easier to discover new areas of research focus or gaps in knowledge.
Pull together your research and deliver it effortlessly.
Research faster
When you look at your notes/highlights grouped by the same tag, you can quickly see how different researchers' interpretations vary, allowing you to rapidly understand the content. This makes it faster for you to learn from and understand the literature you're looking at.
Review all your work and discuss with fellow researchers.
Better supervisions
Zenreader makes it easier for researchers to discuss literature and share knowledge & understanding.
Help your supervisor get up to speed with your research by showing your work from within Zenreader, enabling them to provide clearer and more direct support with your project.
Backtrack
With one click, Zenreader takes you back to the original location of each piece of research that you have extracted and used.
Keyword Extraction
Zenreader extracts keywords out of documents and improves its search results with this information.
Textual analysis
Zenreader helps make your writing more clear, simple and useful by giving you measures of readability, text complexity and identifying certain kinds of vague words.
Less Stress
When working in Zenreader each action has a purpose and moves you closer to your goal.
Each highlight is immediately useful and organised for you.
Continuous progress
Our users report that reviewing a paper and taking notes in Zenreader allows them to produce immediately useful results.
With Zenreader's improved organisation and systematic note-taking approach, you are always making progress and doing something substantial.
Organise your work using built-in productivity tools.
Focus
Within a Zenreader project, you immediately get feedback of your progress, how much work you are doing and how much needs doing.
With its project management features, Zenreader avoids you getting lost and helps you choose what to focus on next, especially when a project grows.
Import Bibliographies
Import your existing work from your favourite reference managers.
Integrated workflow
Use Zenreader as an additional tool that focuses on building your knowledge base.
Coming Soon: Multiple Devices
We are working on making Zenreader available on tablets as well.
Systematic Methodology
Zenreader encourages you to apply a rigorous and systematic methodology when reading papers, making highlights and organising your knowledge.
Compose complex notes simply by dragging and dropping your research.
Deliberate organisation
Zenreader makes you really think about what you're highlighting as you assign a main tag. This helps in creating immediately useful notes.
Use multiple tags to organise your knowledge in varied ways.
Multiple perspectives
When reading the same documents with different "lenses" you can capture many different layers of understanding and quickly review all your knowledge on a topic and across papers.
Less repetition
With Zenreader, each highlight becomes a ready-to-use piece of knowledge, organised by you and ready to be used in your reports and written documents. Because the note taking is so systematic and effective, our users don't need to re-read papers multiple times and they never lose their notes/work and can always go from their notes to the original document with one click.
Export your work in multiple formats.
Powerful exports
Quickly create reports by exporting a subset of your notes (ie exporting by a specific tag, or group of tags).
With Zenreader, you can go from reading and note taking to a coherent narrative up to 9x faster when compared to using other software tools.
Nested Tags
You can nest tags, creating powerful ways of organising your notes.
Export
Export your work in Markdown, HTML, PDF and Word/LibreOffice/OpenOffice. Coming soon: Google Docs, OneNote & Evernote.
Drag & Drop Anything
Pulling your work together is fast. Drag & drop outlines or snippets into your notes, connecting together all of your work.
Professional Productivity
Zenreader is packed with tools and techniques employed by the best teams and professionals. From Getting Things Done, to Agile (thank you Atlassian for the explanations!), to our own productivity hacks, Zenreader takes away time-wasters, letting you focus on what matters most: getting your work done.
Document Kanban Board - keep track of what needs doing.
Kanban boards
Zenreader lets you move your work forwards by helping you focus on what needs doing. Use Kanban columns to define your ideal workflow. Move your documents (and tasks) onto the right lists and get the most important stuff from "To Do" to "Done" first.
Tasks Screen: capture your tasks, thoughts and ideas.
Task lists
Zenreader comes with a rapid way to capture ideas, thoughts and tasks so that you don't get distracted, lose your flow or what is important to you.
Visualise a complete history of your reading and note taking.
History
The activity history will show you everything that you have done. It is often very useful to be able to find out when we read a specific document, especially when we are doing research and we want to recall where we read some piece of information that we didn't find relevant before, but that now is very important to us.
Zenreader tracks citations for you automatically.
Unintentional plagiarism
Most students who don't use Zenreader end up forgetting to carry over the citation when typing their notes in their note taking tools, which leads to A) unintentional plagiarism or B) a lot of time spent trying to locate the original source.
Thousands of citation styles included.
References
Zenreader handles document references. Where possible, it automatically detects citation information. You can export citations in 1900+ academic styles. You can rapidly update document bibliographic information.
Use Zenreader alongside your favourite reference manager and import your from the following formats: BibTex, EndNote Library, RefMan.
Custom Workspaces
You can adapt each workspace of Zenreader to your needs, placing the right tools for the job next to each other.
Shortcuts
Zenreader comes with handy shortcuts to help you jump to the right screen or to rapidly open documents or notes.
Encrypted Data
You have the option to encrypt all the data you produce with Zenreader, when it is stored locally on your machine.
Academic support & training
Our team provides training & support on productivity & personal techniques as well as how to manage time, developing the right skills
Learn moreWhat our users have to say
Zenreader has enabled many happy users to do their best work: overdelivering, in less time, having more fun!