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1. A Captivating Title

The opening slide with your title is the first thing people will see.

If your title doesn't stand out and make them excited to listen to you then you've already lost them to whatever might be happening on their phones.

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How do you give a presentation that doesn't bore the audience to death🤔?

Here are 6 ways I've found to keep the audience engaged during your talk.

A thread. 🧵

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You basically need to be Batman to get your paper published these days 😅

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Babies only take 9 month to make .. try writing a thesis😅

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With the holidays nearing you might want to know how other PhDs are spending their time relaxing after the PhD🤔

Are you doing any of these?

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Listen & Enjoy 😊
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0771sZUkSRpxVKOl5YuEXs?si=bfffb465ca344314

It's magical 🙃

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Hurts 😭

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In episode 42, we interviewed science integrity consultant Dr Elisabeth Bik (@MicrobiomDigest ) on Fraud in Scientific Publications.

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Listen & Enjoy 😊
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Wo8cdlEap9jq8s4MvBhiK?si=7edaeec4af9c4f6d

Still makes no damn sense

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I'll start after checking out one more meme

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TL;DR: 8 Must-Have Types of Extensions To Boost Productivity

1. Grammar/Spelling Checker
2. Reference Manager
3. To-do list / Calendar
4. Focus Timer
5. Time Tracker
6. Read Later
7. Tab Manager
8. PDF Editor
Bonus: Screen Recorder

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9. BONUS: Screen Recorder

Ever had to explain to someone how to do something then you might be better off recording the screen while you do it and explain it.

Examples include: Loom, awesome screenshot and screen recorder, and Nimbus

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8. PDF Editor

At some point or another during your PhD you’re gonna need to do some of this because your institute or department needs some files from you and so you might as well start optimizing your PDF handling now.

Examples include: pdf2go, PDFzorro, and AdobeAcrobat

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7. Tab Manager

What if you could place all the tabs specific to work together and all the tabs specific to hobbies or purchases together?

Yes, that technology does exist in the form of a tab manager.

Examples include: Tab manager plus, Workona, Cluster , and Tablerone

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6. Read Later

Read later apps help you convert the bad distractions like scrolling through social media into better distractions like reading about a topic you are interested in.

Examples include: Pocket , Instapaper, Evernote web clipper, and Notion web clipper

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5. Time Tracker

We all get distracted and might open a youtube video while working a on task. What the time tracker extensions do is give you clear information on where your time is going.

Examples include: Clockify Time Tracker, Web activity Time tracker, or Timenotes

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4. Focus Timer

There are a variety of ways to combat a lack of focus but one way that I’ve found that works for me is to use a focus timer.

Fortunately, there is an extension or several for that.

Examples include: Forest, Focus To-Do, and Tide

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3. To-do list / Calendar

One thing is certain and that is that as overworked PhD students we need something to help keep track of everything we have going on and help increase our productivity.

Examples include: Todoist, TickTick , Google Tasks

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2. Reference manager

Reference managers are possibly one of the most important extensions you will need during your PhD program.

Unless you are one of those people who hate having free time and like doing this … by hand.

Examples include: Endnote, Mendeley, and Zotero.

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