Research & Knowledge
Screen research papers against criteria
Codex reads a folder of PDFs to find articles that disagree with an argument, screens about fifty papers for a systematic review, and cleans messy CSV or Excel files.
Codex
Research & Knowledge
Digging through books, papers, and data, and keeping what you learn organized.
89 use cases
Research & Knowledge
Compile recent LLM research papers into a Word doc
Comet found major LLM/agent training papers from six months with links and analysis, then saved them to a Word doc via Outlook.
Perplexity Comet
Research & Knowledge
Research conference speakers and organize tabs
Comet researched 50 HumanX speakers, surfaced themes and podcast guests, built a camera spec table, and cleaned up tabs.
Perplexity Comet
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Find Reddit threads on reader pain points
A newsletter writer had Comet find Reddit threads on reader pain points, finding extra sources in about 15 minutes without intervention.
Perplexity Comet
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Email a daily AI news brief and build slide decks from tabs
Comet searches the day's AI news, picks the top 5 stories and emails a brief, and merges tagged tabs and reports into a cited Google Slides deck.
Perplexity Comet
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Run first-pass topic research, then verify references
A commenter uses Manus for first-pass research, then has Genspark double-check every reference and flag problems.
Manus
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Draft research by gathering many web sources
A G2 reviewer uses Manus to scrape sites, read images and gather many sources into a summary in the background, but says credits run out fast.
Manus
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Extract CRM pricing and ratings into a spreadsheet
A reviewer had Manus visit the top 15 CRM sites and pull pricing tiers, free plan limits and G2 ratings into a spreadsheet; long tasks were unreliable.
Manus
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Monitor public documents for changes affecting teaching materials
An educator's Dot checks public documents for changes, sorts them by impact, and verifies an article's notation against linked pages, offering revision candidates only.
Dots
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Turn voice notes into structured Obsidian notes
Voice notes sent over Telegram become Obsidian thought notes with transcript, cleaned argument, linked context and a draft; Hermes also tracks recipes.
Hermes Agent
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Try Devin on research tasks (mostly failed)
Answer.AI had Devin fetch an author's recent papers and research transcript summarization; it got stuck parsing HTML and returned generic results, rated a failure.
Devin
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Build a personal research wiki from papers and articles
Cursor Agent writes and maintains interlinked markdown pages from user-supplied sources, summarizing and cross-referencing, with Obsidian used to browse.
Cursor
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Let Cursor maintain an Obsidian notes vault
Cursor reviews vault structure, suggests connections, answers questions about notes and writes a daily done note documenting other agent sessions.
Cursor
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Use Cursor for academic paper writing with citations
Forum users write papers in markdown with Zotero citations and a bibtex file for Cursor to pick references from, converting to Word with pandoc.
Cursor
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Grade Cursor on a real data science project
A data scientist tested Cursor on a real project: weak on pandas, data cleansing and scraping, strong at prototyping.
Cursor
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Catalog and summarize papers dropped into Drive
An n8n workflow extracts metadata from new PDFs, finds related papers on Semantic Scholar and PubMed, builds an APA citation, logs to Sheets and creates a Notion summary.
n8n
Research & Knowledge
Turn any URL into a structured Notion note
An n8n workflow fetches a submitted URL, strips it to readable content, has OpenAI summarise it into structured fields, and saves a Notion note.
n8n