Hello~ 😀

Today, I will introduce you to one of the essential software for graduate students. Graduate students have to read a lot of papers, and Zotero is a great help in this. Let’s learn about Zotero together!

1️⃣ Introducing Zotero

Zotero is a very useful reference management software for collecting and managing research materials. Graduate students can easily save various materials such as theses, web pages, books, and articles, and automatically generate citations and reference lists based on them.

Graduate students, in particular, often have to review not one or two papers, but dozens or even hundreds of papers and materials. Zotero helps you organize these vast materials into folders and tag them for quick searches. You can also save PDF files and add notes to systematically manage your research materials, making it very efficient to use during your research.

2️⃣ How to use Zotero

You can download and install the desktop version from the official Zotero website. Zotero is free software and open source, so you can use it without any financial burden. And it is a reliable software that is constantly updated and improved by the Zotero developers.

You can create new folders in Zotero and drag and drop materials into them. You can create and manage folders by topic or project.

You can open PDF files in Zotero and highlight or annotate important or noteworthy sections. There are several highlight colors, and you can leave direct notes through annotations. And you can use Zotero’s search function to quickly find your saved materials. You can search by title, author, tags, and more.

Everyone, Zotero will help you read your papers more efficiently. It will also help you a lot in your research and paper writing process. If you are a freshman in graduate school and don't know about it yet, download it quickly and use it. Zotero may take some time to get used to at first, but once you get used to it, your research work will become much easier!

Have a nice day today~