AI - Powered Reference Manager Afforai: Zotero with ChatGPT built in

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Summary

TLDRThe video introduces ApoAI, a tool for annotating and organizing PDFs that combines features of Zotero and ChatGPT. It provides functionalities for creating collections, importing libraries, and automatically searching for PDFs from BibTeX files. ApoAI also offers annotation tools such as highlights and sticky notes along with AI capabilities for summarizing documents. The tool includes an AI research assistant mode that can retrieve documents, provide summaries, answer questions, and offer structured citations. Users can explore three AI modes: document retrieval, semantic scholar integration, and Google search. ApoAI offers options to export files in multiple citation formats, and allows sorting and tagging for better organization. Both free and paid plans are available, with a discount code provided for an upgrade. The tool facilitates research by enabling efficient organization and management of scientific papers.

Takeaways

  • πŸ–ŠοΈ ApoAI combines Zotero and ChatGPT features for PDF annotation and organization.
  • πŸ’² A discount code for 10% off on paid plans is available in the description.
  • πŸ“‚ Create and organize collections to manage different projects.
  • πŸ” Automatically find PDFs using imported BibTeX files.
  • πŸ—‚οΈ Utilize features like text highlights, area highlights, and sticky notes.
  • 🧠 AI integration allows summarization and detailed note-taking.
  • πŸ“ˆ An AI research assistant aids in document retrieval and citation management.
  • βš™οΈ Export citations in various formats like BibTeX and RIS.
  • πŸ”„ Three AI modes: document retrieval, semantic scholar, and Google search.
  • πŸ”Ž Search functionality includes AI-generated content.
  • πŸ”— Easily import materials from external databases like Semantic Scholar.
  • πŸ“œ Free and paid plans available, catering to varying levels of AI use.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The video introduces Apoai, a tool combining Zotero and ChatGPT functionalities, allowing annotation and organization of PDFs with AI capabilities. It offers a free plan and paid plans with AI features available at a discount. The video demonstrates using Apoai to create a new collection, import Zotero libraries, and manage PDFs efficiently. It highlights features like automatic PDF retrieval, annotation tools including highlights and sticky notes, and integration with AI like GPT-4 for summarizing and querying papers.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:14:42

    Further features of Apoai include organizing notes and tags, AI research assistant with modes like document retrieval and semantic scholar mode, and exporting capabilities compatible with Zotero. The AI assistant can pull and summarize information from various sources. The video concludes by emphasizing the utility of Apoai for organizing research, noting its ease of use and various exporting options.

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Video Q&A

  • What is ApoAI?

    ApoAI is a tool that combines features of Zotero and ChatGPT for annotating and organizing PDFs.

  • Is there a discount available for ApoAI?

    Yes, there is a discount code available in the video description for 10% off on paid plans.

  • Does ApoAI have free plans?

    Yes, ApoAI offers a free plan with limited AI features.

  • Can ApoAI automatically find PDFs?

    Yes, ApoAI can automatically search online for PDFs associated with a BibTeX file.

  • What annotation features does ApoAI offer?

    ApoAI offers features like text and area highlights, sticky notes, and AI integration for summarizing texts.

  • Can you organize PDFs in ApoAI?

    Yes, you can create collections and folders to organize PDFs in ApoAI.

  • Does ApoAI support exporting citations?

    Yes, ApoAI allows exporting citations in formats like BibTeX and RIS.

  • What AI assistant modes does ApoAI offer?

    ApoAI offers document retrieval, semantic scholar, and Google search modes.

  • Can ApoAI search through AI-generated content?

    Yes, ApoAI can search through notes made by its AI assistant.

  • How does ApoAI help with research?

    ApoAI assists by summarizing documents, answering questions, and retrieving relevant papers using its AI assistant.

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    in this video I want to introduce you to
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    apoai who is also the sponsor of today's
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    video afai is essentially like having a
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    zoto and a Chachi PT together where you
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    can annotate on PDFs and organize it
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    with a very very similar setup to zota
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    before I jump into showing you f I do
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    want to let you know that there is a
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    link in the description below and there
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    is also a discount code you can use to
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    get 10% off if you're interested in
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    upgrading to one of their paid plans the
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    nice thing is they do have a free plan
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    if you're not wanting to use a lot of
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    the AI features you can definitely use
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    the free plan and get a lot of these
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    benefits if you are going to be more
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    heavy on the AI you can use one of the
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    paid plans and you can get 10% off with
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    the discount code below so you can see
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    here this is my apar and you can see
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    that I've already been working in it to
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    work on different projects that I'm
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    currently on but I'm going to create a
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    new collection specifically for you to
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    see here so I'm going to click up here
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    and then I can click create folder to
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    create a new col collection and then I'm
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    going to call
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    this so I'm naming this caffeine and
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    performance and what I'm going to do is
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    I'm actually going to import one of my
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    zoto libraries to work with so to do
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    that I can click import items and then
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    I'm going to add to click to add my bib
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    text
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    file and so what it's going to do and
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    this is one of the features I really
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    like about it is it's automatically
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    going to look Andy try and find the PDF
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    for you so these didn't have the PDFs in
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    them they're a bid text file they can't
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    hold that data within them but it went
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    and looked online to try and see if they
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    could find the PDFs for them and then
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    you can see there were three that it
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    wasn't able to find the PDF and so what
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    I can do is if I have the PDF I can
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    click this button here and it will allow
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    me to upload the PDF for it so that it
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    can process in if it doesn't if it can't
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    find the PDF then it won't upload it
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    into the system and then I can click
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    upload and so you can see that it's now
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    uploaded in the ones that had a PDF or
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    it was able to find a PDF for them so
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    within here this is a really similar
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    view to zoto if you're familiar with
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    zoto so if I click on one you can see I
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    have the info I have the citation
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    information in here I have the notes for
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    it and then I have the ability to view
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    the file I can also search up here so
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    with this one it won't if you search up
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    here it won't specifically search the
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    PDFs but it will search the title the
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    abstract and the notes that you have as
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    well and one of the things that I really
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    like about this is that you can view the
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    file and they essentially have this nice
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    PDF reader that you can use to annotate
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    and do all of these different things on
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    it so if I click view
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    file it opens up in a new tab the PD PDF
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    for that specific reference and we have
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    a few things up here so we can zoom in
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    and out we can rotate left or right we
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    can go to different pages and then we
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    have a few annotation tools so we have
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    the ability to set the highlight color
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    the ability to toggle on and off
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    highlight one of the things that's
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    really nice about this is it does have
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    those keyboard shortcuts for these so if
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    we hold s and t together we'll get
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    highlight If We Hold s and a together
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    we'll get an area highlight which is
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    basically a box that you can do and if
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    you s and in together you can do a
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    sticky note I can also come over here
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    and I can just write in quick notes as
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    I'm doing it I don't have to add the
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    notes into here I can just write in
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    notes here and this is actually the
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    first place that I'm going to show you
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    that has the AI built in so what you can
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    do is you can actually do at and you can
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    choose the model that you want to work
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    with so for this I'm just going to
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    choose
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    gp40 and then I can type in my question
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    so I can say something like summarize
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    this
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    paper and so what it's going to do is it
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    automatically adds that as a note and
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    then if I click here you can see it
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    actually brings up the comment under it
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    so you have um the information in it the
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    key points that are in it as well and
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    then this paper concludes that while the
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    data available is promising further
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    research is warranted to fully
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    understand the potential benefits and so
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    if we kind of
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    scroll down to the
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    conclusion we can see that basically
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    they are saying what they said is it is
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    effective um and that there are um at
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    least three main gaps to um continue to
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    pursue and then we can analyze um the
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    summary there the other things we can do
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    so we can chat within there but we can
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    also do things like highlighting so I'm
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    going to hold s and t on my keyboard and
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    you see that that highlight changed so
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    I'll do it again but you can see that
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    it's unselected if I hold SNT it
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    automatically selects it this is
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    something I really like because it means
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    I don't have to keep clicking around in
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    order to do all of the different things
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    I need to do and then I can go ahead and
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    highlight part of my
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    text the thing that I really like about
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    this and I like it a lot better than
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    zoto's way of doing this is that it
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    automatically includes that highlight
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    into the notes so you can see that
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    highlight is here and then I can write
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    in
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    here and here a comment so like if I
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    wanted to highlight something and take
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    notes on it I can do that and so now
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    that note appears in here so if I go
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    back into my library and I click on
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    um my creatine and I go to the notes you
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    can see both of those notes now appear
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    in here and I can easily see the
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    information from both the chat and from
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    my highlight highlights and my comments
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    on those highlights I can also do an
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    area highlight so I can click the area
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    highlight and if I just drag and drop
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    and let's say I include all of that you
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    can see it now pulls it in as an image
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    so it's not exactly going to be
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    searchable it takes an image of it and
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    includes it within the note and if I do
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    SN I can create a sticky note so if I
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    come down here maybe I want to create a
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    sticky note on this and let's say I'm
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    going to do let's do another AI chat so
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    we're going to go to the same
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    one and we're going to do can you
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    explain the blood brain
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    barrier and why it is important
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    for
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    creatinin
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    supplementation okay so basically asking
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    it to explain
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    something and so we can see it's
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    included there and it's also included
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    Here and Now get the response as well so
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    it talks about the Transporters for it
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    the endogenous synthesis different
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    things like that that we can easily get
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    that's both stored within this paper but
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    it's also accessible so now if I took
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    something like
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    GAA and I search for it it's going to
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    bring this one up because it has a note
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    that's associated with it even though
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    that note came from an AI bot and this
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    is something that I think a lot of
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    people hav't implemented in is the
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    ability to search AI results um which is
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    included in here and you can see that
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    those two notes aren't showing up here
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    and the reason for that is it just needs
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    a refresh so if I go to my station and
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    go back to my notes you see that they're
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    now showing up the two that I just did
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    there and so that's the way to interact
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    with the AI within a specific PDF you
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    can take notes on it you can write
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    comments on it all of these things are
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    available and I think the way that they
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    have done it is really nice you can also
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    sort these notes and filter them so if I
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    just want to see what my text highlights
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    are that's there if I just want to see
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    what my quick notes are which are the
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    ones that I just type into the bar um
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    it's the ones that I type in down here
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    so they're they're not on the
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    actual page they're just um within the
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    notes section I can specify to those I
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    can specify to my sticky notes I can
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    specify to all of this and I can also
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    organize them as well the other thing
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    very similar to zoto is does have tags
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    and you can always click over here to
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    see all the keyboard shortcuts and you
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    can see that to create a shortcut you
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    can do CT and so if I hold down C and T
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    you can see a tag pops up here and I can
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    just type
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    in
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    creatine and drag and drop it and now
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    this you can see has a DOT here and it
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    also um is now going to have that tag
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    there and so that's essentially ways you
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    can do it you can also add in the tags
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    here the other part of aari that I think
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    is really cool is the fact that they
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    have an AI research assistant and So
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    within here there's basically three
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    different modes that you can use there
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    is the document retrieval mode which
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    means you can hook it up to one of your
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    libraries or multiple libraries and have
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    it pull in to give you results on it
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    there's the semantic scholar mode so
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    this could be like things that you
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    haven't even started developing papers
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    on um but if I just did semantic scholar
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    mode then I'm going to pull in the
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    papers from semantic scholar and then
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    there's Google search mode so if you
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    just want to use Google search you can
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    use that mode as well so the first mode
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    I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead
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    and add in semantic scholar and I'm
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    going to ask it what is the best level
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    of supplementation
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    of creatine
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    for
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    bodybuilders and I can send
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    that so what we get is we get
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    information and what we also get is
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    references so this pulled three
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    different papers um and then it
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    summarized those papers together so it
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    talked about for muscle growth creating
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    supplement supplementation for brain
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    health and then physical exercise and
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    oxidative stress markers then it talks
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    about the dosage that they um those
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    papers discuss and then timing and
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    consistency so if we click on these we
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    can click um visit site and this will
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    take us to the semantic scholar site and
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    we can
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    also click on upload URL and that will
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    actually upload it into our um Library
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    so if we go back to our
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    library you can see that in unsorted
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    it's added this in so now we can drag
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    and drop it into our new Library
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    here and so that's the way to
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    automatically Pull It in I do believe
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    that is a pro feature so that's one of
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    the paid features if you're interested
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    in being able to directly pull in from
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    semantic scholar so if we go back to our
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    research assistant now what I'm going to
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    do is I'm going to switch it to document
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    retrieval and when I do that I'm going
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    to first use connect files so this
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    allows you to control which files it
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    pulls in and reads to give you the
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    results so if I click connect files this
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    is already set to my caffeine and
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    performance which is exactly what I want
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    it to be set to if it wasn't then I
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    would need to um set it obviously click
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    the check mark there to uh set it to
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    that so I'm going to click
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    confirm and now I can say how
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    does creatine
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    supplementation
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    effect muscle
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    growth and hit send so once it reads the
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    different papers you can see up here it
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    was reading the papers it basically
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    gives you a few different things so it
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    talks about the mechanism of action
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    muscle creatine levels muscle mass and
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    function and then dosage strategies and
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    you can see it gives us all of the um
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    citations that it pulled the data from
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    there and so if I click this you can see
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    I can go straight from here to view file
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    and go ahead and confirm that
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    information um and then it gives me the
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    like abstract down there so I can always
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    click here and go ahead and view the
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    file this will bring it up over here and
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    this this allows me to be able to
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    determine if this is actually what it
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    said and read further about whether I
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    want to further investigate this as well
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    and if you open up the bottom you can
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    actually get be able to copy this you
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    can copy with the citations or without
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    the citations and be able to paste it
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    somewhere else or you can regenerate the
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    answer both of those are good options um
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    if you need to use either of that so
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    that's really two different ways that
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    you can use this research assistant you
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    can use it to first start out and pull
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    things in from something like semantic
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    scholar and then you can also use it to
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    summarize or ask questions about the
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    references that are already within your
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    own libraries you can always go back and
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    go into the individual ones to be able
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    to add in those comments or chat with
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    one um PDF
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    specifically now you can also export
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    your items so let's say you added a
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    bunch of items into this and then you
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    want to export it out for citations or
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    something like that with zoto if you
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    want to just export a collection you can
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    rightclick on any collection and you can
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    export those citations and so you can
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    export it as a bib text a bibl text a
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    bib text an RIS or a CF file and so I
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    any of those zoto will take in and so
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    you can do that you can also download
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    the files generate the citations you can
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    come from a specific one and use with AI
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    that'll use the document retrieval
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    function there um and then you can
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    always rename create a subfolder under
  • 00:13:55
    that so if you want to have multiple
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    subfolders like you do in zoto you can
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    also do that
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    um you can move it to a different folder
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    and then obviously delete the folder and
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    delete the folder and the files in it
  • 00:14:05
    you do have a trash as well so whenever
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    you go to delete things by click move to
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    trash I click this one move to trash
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    it'll go into your trash so it won't
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    automatically delete it and then to
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    empty your trash you do have to click
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    and hold if you just click once it won't
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    do anything if you are interested in
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    signing up for arar I will have a link
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    in the description below and there is
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    also a discount code I will leave it on
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    the screen now so that you can use that
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    to also get 10% off if you're interested
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    I hope you enjoyed this video and I look
  • 00:14:40
    forward to seeing you in the next one
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