Productivity · Web app
Research by UNMS
AI-assisted reference manager and note-taking app for papers and notes
Research is a desktop knowledge management application designed for reading, organising, and understanding academic papers and notes. It combines collection management, dedicated notebooks, visual node canvases, and AI explanations into a unified offline-first workspace.
What it's for
- Organise academic papers and reading materials into topic-based collections
- Synthesise concepts using dedicated notebooks and visual node canvases
- Explain dense paper sections and get plain-language summaries using AI models
Features
- Category-based library organisation with paper metadata and author tags
- Integrated notebooks for topic-specific notes and synthesis
- Infinite visual canvases for mapping concepts into node graphs
- Offline-first desktop experience with optional cloud features
- Bring-your-own-key or credit-based AI assistance for paper comprehension
- Audio summaries and scholarly search discovery feed
Pricing
Freemium. Free for personal use with offline features; Pro plan is $20/month, or buy 500 AI credits for $10
Details
- Type
- Web app
- Category
- Productivity
- Topic
- Reference Management
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- macOS, Windows, Linux
- For
- Researchers, academics, students, and analysts managing scientific literature
- Alternative to
- Zotero, Mendeley, Obsidian, Heptabase
- Tags
- research, reference manager, academic, notes, canvas, ai assistant
Why it was saved
- @TGUPJ: A polished reference manager with categories, notebooks and canvases; useful to try and relevant to the user's own library-building product.
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