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.

www.piedocs.com

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