when it comes to research organization is key and Clara captures fantastic tool for helping you capture and organize your research over these three short videos I'm going to show you how to get the best out of its features and in this video I'm gonna focus on the first capture option capture selected text when you start a new project you need to think about giving it a name and this should be the focus for what you want to achieve so for example you could title it the name for a single source such as a book or a journal and we go through that text grabbing some choice quotes or sections that best establish some key themes from that author another example might be that your title you project the name of your essay or a particular topic and this becomes a mix or sclera capture project so here you'd be adding text from different journals scanned books or online articles you could even create an ongoing research project that you keep on adding to over time so there are two ways to open up Clara capture the first is from within Clara Reed found under extras alternatively you can open Clara capture for its own independent icon that can be pinned to the taskbar so here we have a blank project in which we can capture and organize our research under the drop-down menu next to capture button you'll find 3 capture options in this particular video we're looking detail at the first capture option capture selected text will then have a look at capture highlighted text in Word and then capture screen section a klara capture project can consist of a mixture of all three but we'll be looking at each in turn to make sure you get the most out of each capture option let's create a mixer sclera capture project the first place I want to grab some text from is a scanned book which I scanned and converted to word using Clara read scan feature in order to quickly get to the info I need I'm going to use the find feature and search for a keyword you can either click the find button you can use the shortcut ctrl F as you can see this brings up the navigation window on the left I'm going to search for the keyword Picasso we've now got every instance of that word listed so let's find a good section to capture from this looks good well then go and simply select the text we want to capture and then click capture selected text I'm just going to expand sclera capture by clicking the show button and as you can see we've captured our first item notice how it's grabbed the title of the document the date our text and the source so this is where the document can be found on my machine to make referencing easier later on down the line it's worth entering the page number alongside the title so this is row on page 54 let's capture a little more from this book let's scrub this paragraph over on the right to speed things up you can actually just hit the capture button as the default is set to capture selected text again I'm going to add the page number this is from page 59 okay capture selected text works anywhere you can physically select some text that might be from a PDF a web page a PowerPoint or even something like an audio note-taker project next I want to capture from a journal I chose to convert this PDF to word using cloud scan feature this was really to take advantage of full text-to-speech functionality and words more advanced search features so let's now search for the word composition then find a good section select it and press capture again I'm going to add the page number as it makes life so much easier when it comes to referencing now for some online research the find feature is also available here so again ctrl F allows you to pinpoint keywords within the text let's select some text and press capture as you can see it's now grab the title of the article the date we accessed it which is essential for referencing and it's also grabbed the URL I'm just going to briefly touch on another capture option as I want to grab a small section of this painting choosing capture screen section brings up a crosshair use this to draw a rectangle around a part of the screen you want to screenshot to keep organized let's add a tag to this so a bit of terminology each one of these is called an item and these items make up a Clara capture project we can insert a blank item by clicking file there new item this might be useful for capturing your own thoughts in a particular piece of research in this example I'm going to analyze this section of the painting I'll title this image analysis and add some of my own thoughts we can also drag and drop any file to an item so I'm going to create a new one and it might be that I've done enough research for one day and I want to add some documents that I'm yet to look at I'm going to add the title things to look at tomorrow and then I'm going to add a PowerPoint and a PDF simply by dragging and dropping the files onto the item I can now also access them from here let's now maximize Clara capture in order to explore some of the options available to us clicking on the blue arrow brings up a range of options or you can simply right click anywhere and in item to make them appear there's a usual copy paste and delete then we've got indent it's actually possible to export a Clara capture project to Clara ideas to create a mindmap indents play an important part in the process however I'm going to devote a future video to this for organization you might find indents useful for tagging those items you've chosen to use in your essay or those that you've added to your bibliography or maybe just to highlight those items that need exploring in more detail is completely up to you any that you've indented can be out dented at any time you can also move items in order to reorder them this might be in the order you plan to use them or just a group certain items together audionote can be fantastic for reminders or tax often you find a great piece of research but then later forget its intended purpose or how it relates to other research so here we click audio notes and when you're ready hit record this supports my conclusion that Guernica remains a potent symbol of anti-war protest notis and the blue arrow goes red which means you've recorded something we can then simply click audio note to listen back to it this support my conclusion that Guernica remains a potent symbol of anti-war protest view source is hugely important as it allows us to go back to the original document to view the information in context you'll find this feature works in text grabbed from Microsoft Word but not from PDFs that might be another good reason to convert them using Clara Reid we can also jump back to the original web page it's fantastic for keeping you on track with referencing and stops you from having a million tabs open it might be doing some research on one particular book or journal and that might be the title of the project or it might be something more general like a particular topic or the name of your essay I'm going to call this project research on Picasso's Guernica before I send this project to word I'm going to take one feature found in two settings create bibliography in word now this bibliography won't be accurate enough for your academic work however it offers you a great start for referencing and can be a super handy tool used in conjunction with something like cite this for me or refworks so let's now send this project Microsoft Word and in a moment as if by magic all our research together on this one document and we've also got all the Associated data alongside it over on the Left we can use the headings tab to quickly jump to a particular item and down at the bottom of the document we've got the bibliography let's now go back to Clara capture and this time send our project to PowerPoint here each item becomes a slide brilliant for creating a super quick presentation I know a lot of students like to use this to create revision flashcards it's a great way to test yourself before an exam that's all for now and I hope you found that useful in the next video we'll focus on the second capture option to capture highlighted text in Word
