reading academic papers is a massive pain in the ass there are so many AI tools now but the problem is they all want your money check out this open reads wants $5 a month for whatever they offer here chat PDF wants uh $30.99 a month that's too much mate humata wants anywhere from $199 to $99 a month for a team lateral wants €999 a month paper brain wants $20 a month for 50 credits and each credit is worth one paper viewed one credit used as one paper upload and 0.5 credits are using a p question to ask a paper what does this even mean it's so complicated why have you made it so complicated Unriddle want $16 a month for everything in plus blah blah blah all of that stuff Charlie I don't even know who you are you w $25 a month but don't worry guys I am here to help you here are the two free tools that you need to read academic papers using Ai and it won't force you into a subscription this is what I use so the first tool is size space if you go into size space and sort of like login um you get this dashboard and you can do loads of things you can go to do a literature review you can extract data from PDFs you can read with AI co-pilot and you can do paraphrasing stuff now there are limits in size space but I'll show you why I like using this because they've got this new thing which is extract data from PDFs and all you have to do is upload a PDF so let's go and do that now so I've uploaded my previous studies and you can see them here I've got the too long didn't read and this is just a three dot Point like easy summary from the whole paper and I love it um you can also have a look at conclusions and I think this is the first place everyone should go if they're reading uh loads of peer-reviewed Articles now you also have the other tools and this isn't sponsored content by the way you've also got read with AI co-pilot so you can upload a paper if that other one doesn't work let's hope this one works and so it uploads it and you can see that if we scroll down you can uh ask it questions so you can highlight some stuff um and you can also ask for contributions then once you've highlighted it says summarize explain text or related papers so I'm going to say explain text um and then it will go away and actually sort of like uh try to give you some uh really simple explanations to the stuff you've highlighted that's really really great um for that extra little delve into a paper always always start with an abstract and then uh one thing I like to do is skim and then as I'm skimming the paper then I just highlight it if I don't not sure of something and use this so the co- pilot is a great way here it is advocacy for incorporating pleasure into sexuality curricula um and there's all these things that yeah it just really helps with and you can ask follow-up questions um you can take notes as well so that's why I really like this but this function has got limitations you can only use it so much whereas in my uh experience at the moment I've never sort of had to worry about my library um becoming too full so all of this is really really important for uh that quick kind of summary of a paper and if you want to delve deeper go into read with AI co-pilot and then if you run out there another thing I think you should really use is explain paper now this is one of my papers here explain paper and it does a similar thing to the co-pilot and it's just completely free so if we go to upgrade you can see that you can ask unlimited highlight explanations you can ask follow-up questions but you don't get all of the other stuff and to be honest with you I've never actually needed the other stuff so uh I'm going to go back this is the paper and so as I'm sort of like skimming it you know let's zoom in a little bit cuz my old eyes um as I'm skimming it you know I start here at the at the abstract and I say do I understand this well maybe I want a little bit more help so I can highlight it like this and then you can see it pops up over here and so then you can say well I actually want middle schooler I want uh a really sort of 5-year-old explanation all the way up to an expert so I like somewhere between a high schooler and an undergraduate let's say high schooler and then you can click explain and it does a really good job of breaking it down into a very simp to understand paragraph high schooler the structure blah blah blah and so that's very easy to understand so if you want an explanation of another part you know you're going through and you're like I'm not quite sure what this means so I'm going to go in and say okay let's highlight this and then it pops up here I want it actually to be middle schooler and I want to explain in the context of the text the alignment of the component called P3 HD is observed using a technique called that the observation shows that these molecules arranged in a certain way with their ththe Rings perpendicular to the surface they are on so all of that is just a really great way of sort of slowly going through and reading a paper you don't have to worry about get do reading it from start to finish because it's all there so if you go back to SI space here are all of the different uh things in your library and uh yeah really easy to get an overview this is great for overviews you can get summarized abstract results uh methods used all of this is just sort of like a great way which means you don't have to read the entire paper if you want to delve deeper it's really really simple all you have to do here is ask a question on this paper um the co-pilot will pop up if you're in this view or you can get to it by going back to home and reading with co-pilot super easy to do if you don't uh want to use that or you run out of credits for the month another way is to use this which is an unlimited amount of um explanation go up here you can upload a new paper so this is the components of great sex sexuality education for people who desire to scale the heights of optimal sexuality yes that's me that's definitely me so first thing I want to do always is look at the abstract so I highlight the full abstract it pops up here I want to say high schooler and explain this to a high schooler and then it's about doing this over and over again until you get that kind of sixth sense of what a field or a certain specific area in research is telling you um and it's really simple it's really easy to use it's completely free at the moment um but these always change cuz people always want the money you me the money so these two tools will save you hours of reading Time by simply summarizing the text you give it you can interact with it by highlighting text asking questions asking follow-up questions like here and it's all completely free at the moment I love it go check out these two tools because I think this is my favorite workflow for doing this for free at the moment take the guesswork out of knowing exactly where the most important information is it's got 10 downloadable resources I've got book recommendations and you get lifetime access so I will update this in the future with the best videos from each year so I think it's uh quite the bargain so go check it out that is my effus Academia course I'll put a link in the description so there we have it there's everything you need to know about how to read academic articles using AI completely for free and if you've liked this video go check out this one where I talk about whether or not it's the end of traditional academic papers with the tools that I found and that are being developed it's a really good watch go check it out