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Full Feature List

Research & discovery

  • AI Research AssistantExplain your research in plain language; it does the keyword work and returns ranked, relevant papers.
  • Ongoing conversationDig deeper into a question or follow a tangent without starting over — the Research Assistant keeps the thread.
  • Academic database search480M+ papers, searchable without leaving the workspace.
  • Institutional and organizational access checkingShows what your institution or organization unlocks and links straight to the full-text PDF, or the abstract where the full text isn't available.
  • Journal browsingStep from a paper into its journal: other papers in the same issue or volume, and the rest of that title's available content.
  • Open-access retrievalFinds the free full text where it exists.
  • Saved searchesSearches persist against the project; revisit the results later.

Sources

  • Multi-format uploadPDF, DOCX, EPUB, TXT, Markdown and HTML.
  • Batch uploadDrop in a whole folder's worth at once.
  • Add a source manuallyAny reference type, including sources with no file at all: books, videos, websites.
  • AI metadata extractionPulls all the metadata relevant to that source type, automatically.
  • Duplicate detectionThe same source is recognised rather than added twice.
  • Metadata correctionAdjust or complete any field yourself.

Reader & annotation

  • Built-in readerRead inside the workspace, not in another app.
  • PDF View and Text ViewThe original rendering, or the extracted text.
  • Select toolSelect text to copy.
  • Highlight toolMark passages as you read.
  • Comment toolAttach your own thinking to a specific place in the text.
  • Region toolDraw a rectangle to extract a figure or table.

Search

  • Global project searchSearches source content, highlights and comments together, in two modes.
  • AI modeAsk a question or describe what you're after; it interprets the query and returns a summary with a per-result explanation of why each hit matters.
  • Exact phrase modeLiteral phrase matching when you know the words.

Citations

  • Drag-and-drop citation insertionDrag an annotation into your document and the citation is inserted.
  • Parenthetical or narrativePick the form as you insert.
  • Citation validationChecks every citation in the project in one pass and reports each as valid, warning, retracted or unverifiable — with counts across the project, re-runnable on demand.
  • Five citation stylesAPA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE.
  • Global style with per-project overrideSet your default in your profile, change it for any individual project.
  • Automatic bibliographyGenerated and formatted at publish.

Writing & publishing

  • Integrated writing editorWrite beside your sources, not in a separate app.
  • Document typesResearch Draft and Working Notes.
  • Multiple documents per project
  • Live citation flaggingA citation with incomplete metadata is marked in your document as you write, naming which fields are missing so you fix it at source long before publish — same for a citation whose source has been removed.
  • Publish to Word.docx out, citations formatted and bibliography generated.
  • Optional bibliographyInclude or omit the references section.

Projects & organisation

  • Multiple projectsSeparate workspaces per paper, module or thesis.
  • Folder treeOrganise sources into nested folders, drag and drop between them.

Referral programme

  • Personal referral linkShare it anywhere.
  • Free monthsEarned as people you refer sign up.

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