The research panel is live. Open a document, click the panel, type a query — three open academic databases (arXiv, OpenAlex, CrossRef) get queried in parallel and the union shows up in seconds.
What you can do with a result:
- Insert a citation. A clean inline
(Smith et al., 2023)at your cursor; the bibliography accumulates separately. - Pull a snippet. Drop the abstract or a paragraph from the PDF into your draft as a blockquote with attribution. We never strip the source.
- Open the PDF inline. No new tab. We extract text with pdfjs and let you search inside the document for the part that mattered.
We built this because we got tired of three things: tab-switching to Google Scholar, copy-pasting citations into a bibliography file, and having to download a PDF just to find one paragraph. The research panel sits to the right of your draft and removes the round-trip.
It works without an account, by the way. You don't need to be signed in to search. We thought that was important.