Had 5 days to read 17 papers. Built this to survive. Feedback?
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Got slammed with a deadline - had to review 17 research papers on a topic I knew nothing about in 5 days.
My usual approach completely fell apart:
- Read paper 1, forgot it by paper 7
- Kept re-reading the same sections
- Couldn't remember which paper talked about what
So I threw together a tool to help myself:
What it does:
- Upload all your papers at once
- Shows visual structure (see how the paper is organized without reading)
- Search across all of them ("find methodology" pulls from all 17)
- Tells you which sections are gonna be rough before you read them
Cut my time way down - maybe 4 hours instead of the usual marathon.
Built it mainly for myself but figured other grad students/researchers might have this problem too.
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