Guides
Topic hubs
Everything on this site is organized into five hubs, each covering one part of the AI-assisted research workflow. Start with the hub closest to your current problem.
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Pillar 01
AI Research Assistants
Reviews and head-to-head comparisons of Elicit, Consensus, Scite, SciSpace, Perplexity, and the rest of the literature-search tools — tested on real research questions.
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Pillar 02
Reference Managers & Citation Tools
Setup guides and honest comparisons for Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, and Paperpile — the software that holds your entire bibliography, so you had better choose well.
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Pillar 03
AI Academic Writing & Editing
Reviews of Paperpal, Jenni, QuillBot, and Grammarly, plus straight answers on university AI policies, disclosure, and where the plagiarism line actually sits.
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Pillar 04
Researcher Knowledge Workflows
Zotero-to-Obsidian pipelines, literature notes that survive contact with a thesis, and note-taking systems built for people who read papers for a living.
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Pillar 05
Literature Review & Paper-Reading
How to run a literature review with AI assistance — summarizers, NotebookLM, deep-research modes, synthesis matrices — without letting the machine read for you.