Research
Find the gaps in your project and gather sources into a reference library.
Research works at the project level and helps you fill in what the piece needs to know. It keeps a reference library you can build up and annotate as you go.
How research handles what you submit
Research is the one place where text you submit leaves for a third party, so it is worth being plain about it. When you use research, what you submit is sent to a third-party search provider whose terms let it use, retain, and train on what it receives. This applies only to the research and search surface, and only to what you submit there — it does not change the training or data-use position for your manuscript, your coaching, or anything else, all of which stay covered by the promise that nothing you write is ever used to train any model. Research is off until you turn it on. Searching with queries drawn from your own documents needs a separate, additional consent on top of that; until you give it, only the text you type fresh for a search is ever sent.
Gap analysis
Gap analysis reads your brief and your voice and points out the knowledge gaps worth filling before you write — the things a reader would expect you to have covered.
Research sessions
A research session plans search queries from your brief, runs them against the web, and gathers the results into findings you can review. You can also search the web yourself and save what you find. Saved references collect in the library, where you can open one and annotate it alongside the source.
Folders
Organize the library into folders and nested subfolders, and move references between them. A folder has to be empty before you can delete it. Deleting a folder asks you to confirm first; if you tick "Don't ask again" the prompt stops appearing. You can turn that confirmation back on any time from Settings → Profile.
Snapshots
Open a saved reference and use "Archive current page" to keep a copy of the page as it looks right now. Each archive is added to the reference's snapshot history with a timestamp, so you can still read a source that later changes or disappears. Archiving an unchanged page is skipped, so the history only grows when the page actually changes.
Importing a library
Bring an existing library over from Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote with "Import library". Export from your manager as BibTeX (.bib), RIS (.ris), or CSL-JSON (.json) and choose the file. Nothing is saved right away: you first see everything that was found, with each entry marked as new, a duplicate of something already in your library, repeated within the file, worth a second look, or unreadable. Deselect anything you do not want, then import the rest.
Duplicates are matched by DOI or ISBN and left unchecked by default so you do not create a second copy; a close author, year, and title match is flagged for review rather than merged automatically. A single malformed entry never stops the rest of the file — it is listed with the reason so you can fix it in your manager and re-export. Nothing in the import is run through an AI; entries are read exactly as written.
Bibliographic details
A source with citation details shows its author, year, and where it was published under the title, with a label for its type — journal article, book, web page, and so on. Filter the library by type and sort it by year, author, or title to find your way around a large reading list.
Add a source by DOI
Use "Add by DOI" and paste a DOI (or a doi.org link). The author, year, title, and journal are fetched for you from Crossref, so a citable source is one paste away. If the lookup is unavailable, add the details by hand instead.
Citation details by hand
Use "Add citation manually" to type a source in yourself: pick the type and the form asks for what that type needs — a journal article asks for volume, issue, and pages; a book asks for the publisher. Already saved a page as a clipped link? Open it and choose "Add citation details" to turn it into a citable source without saving it twice.
Export your library
Export the library as a BibTeX .bib file to take your bibliography into LaTeX, Zotero, or any reference manager. Each source that carries citation details is written as one entry, keyed by its citation key (edit a source to set your own). Keys stay stable across exports, so a re-export never renumbers the citations in a paper you have already written.
What it costs
Gap analysis and research sessions spend credits. Saving, importing, exporting, looking a source up by DOI, and annotating references you already have does not.