in latex you need to have some sort of latex editor now there's a lot of latex editors out there but the one that i've really enjoyed for the last several years is overleaf and actually i'm really proud that they have become the sponsor of today's video because overleaf is one that you don't have to install anything it's all based in your web browser everything's stored inside of the cloud and it just makes it so much easier to learn and to create in latex and it's up to you as a completely free version which i actually appreciate is really good like you can write your entire thesis in latex you don't need to upgrade but it also has some really nice quality of life upgrades like keeping track of a whole bunch of different versions and sharing with all of your collaborators like for example your thesis advisors and so for me at least upgrading to the paid versions is totally worth it but but i'll leave that choice up to you okay with those preliminaries said and done let's get into the video before i even create a new project i'm actually just going to create a new folder here i'll call this youtube and this allows me to put everything related to a thesis which might be many many different files all in one nice folder come up here and we are going to start a brand new project and there's a couple options we're actually in this video going to use a blank project like we're going to start from the beginning and i'm going to show you how to do everything but it's often nice if you scroll down here you can see some of the templates that are available on the latex website so for example for thesis if i show the gallery of all items your university may well have a template already so for example i did my phd at the university of toronto and i can just click this here to import the university of toronto standard thesis with all the requirements for formatting already in there so definitely check out the gallery to see if your university is here or if there's just a template you really like so for the purpose of this video we're gonna go and just click on a blank project and let's call it youtube thesis all right this is a wonderful uh phd thesis that we're going to have i'm going to hide the left-hand menu for now and what i want to notice is that there's two sides to this on the left-hand side we get our code and then when we click the compile button it spits out well what it's going to look like and right now you have almost nothing so there's a few things i'm going to do right off the bat the document class is currently default set to be article and i'm going to change this to report and when i compile that already it changes the look and feel there's a title page here and then we have this beginning section which is called introduction it appears on a new page basically reports are designed for longer documents than just an article was there's other classes like book which is reasonable as well but i'm going to use report now the first thing i want to do is i'm going to change this title which i have as youtube thesis that was the name of the document and that's totally fine but i
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN and actually i'm really proud that they have become the sponsor of today's video because overleaf is one that you don't have to install anything it's all based in your web browser everything's stored inside of the cloud and it just makes it so much easier to learn and to create in latex and it's up to you as a completely free version which i actually appreciate is really good like you can write your entire thesis in latex you don't need to upgrade but it also has some really nice quality of life upgrades like keeping track of a whole bunch of different versions and sharing with all of your collaborators like for example your thesis advisors and so for me at least upgrading to the paid versions is totally worth it but but i'll leave that choice up to you okay with END_SPONSOR_TOKEN