Getting Started Video Tutorials

Getting Started Video

Learn how to use Zenreader in less than 15 minutes. In this tutorial, you will:

create an empty project
add documents
make highlights
and export your work in an immediately usable report.

Import documents and references

With Zenreader you rapidly read and annotate documents for your research projects. Importing documents and references is an important step in a project. During this tutorial you will learn how to:

import pdf documents from your file system
import bibliographic reference libraries from Mendeley, Endnote and other reference management software
import citations from Google Scholar
attach PDF documents to references
rapidly update reference information from the PDF documents
change citation styles

Highlighting

You quickly summarise documents by using the highlight & note taking tools in Zenreader. Zenreader allows you to extract text, images, equations, convert images to text and add notes onto your documents, giving you huge flexibility in how you synthesise your documents and build a body of knowledge. Zenreader’s highlighting engine helps you create immediately useful snippets of knowledge that you can export with one click and convert into essays, reports or papers (with all of the citations included so that you don’t plagiarise unintentionally).

In this tutorial we show you how to:
create text, image, equation highlights
extract text from images (ie. using OCR to convert scanned versions of documents to text)
extract equations and convert them to LaTeX formulas
use all of the advanced features of the highlights
export your work

Tagging

Tags allow you to immediately organise your notes with great flexibility. As you take notes on documents, you can choose a colored Tag as the principal tag. On top of this, you can add as many tags as you want on each marking. In this tutorial we show you how to use the Tag engine. You learn how to:

create Tags
change Tag color / name
nest Tags under each other
delete Tags

Outlines

You have summarised several documents for your project whether it is a paper, report essay or just building your own knowledge base about a topic. Your project now contains many markings that are well organised by tags. You can use Zenreader’s Outliner feature to quickly build notes that combine your own thinking and the markings together. You can combine multiple outlines together and export them as draft reports that you then polish in your favourite text editing softwares. In this tutorial we show you how to use Outlines. Learn how to:

create outlines
add content
add markings
link outlines together
export outlines
setup the reader workspace so you can quickly draft your work whilst reading documents and taking notes!

Kanban

Use Zenreader’s built in Kanban boards to keep track of your work and know exactly what to focus on at any one time. With this feature, you can focus your work on what matters the most and deliver your project more efficiently and on time. Kanban boards are used in Agile methodology which is an established productivity methodology. In this tutorial we show you how to:

use the different screens for managing your project documents
setup your own Kanban board
productivity tips for using your Kanban board and tracking your work