How to Manage Large Amounts of Reading

Whether you're a researcher drowning in PDFs or a student staring down a 10-book syllabus, the problem is never the reading—it's the retention. In an era where AI is dominating the playing field, to keep up you need to learn how to use AI to give yourself a leg up. DeepTutor can provide you with an optimal workspace to store your papers, efficiently read them, and give yourself time for retention and insight.

The first step to any type of optimization is proper organization. How could you possibly be efficiently reading if it takes you hours to find the papers you need? DeepTutor was built off of the Zotero framework, meaning that the AI features designed to give users a more efficient workflow came as an addition to the pre-existing organizational tools from Zotero. Whether you want to sync your present Zotero library, or want to start building a new one, DeepTutor provides a workspace for the reading and collecting of papers.

It's no wonder Zotero became the standard program for researchers, since it provides a singular workspace for the collection and reading of papers. It eliminated the need to have multiple programs up just to cycle through and read papers. DeepTutor adds an additional layer to the organizational features of Zotero, further enhancing the workspace with the power of AI.

When you are a student, you are often told that reading the textbook before a lecture will help you follow along easier. I am sorry to report that saying is in fact true. According to this finding by Tophat, pre-reading positively affected the distribution of grades for students who read the textbook vs. those who didn't. Having a foundational set of information through pre-reading gave students a hard-earned advantage.

In life, you are not always going to be assigned a textbook to pre-read, but something you can do is take advantage of AI-powered summaries that DeepTutor provides so you have a more efficient reading experience. With a summary at your side, you can easily grasp the essence of a paper, giving you a more efficient reading experience. With this approach for all of your papers, you will cut down on the time it takes to read, without giving up any room for retention.

Managing a heavy reading load is not about finding time to read your mountain of documents, it's about using your time efficiently by reading smarter. With the organizational powers and analytical AI that DeepTutor possesses, you can easily turn an overwhelming workload into a manageable workflow.