Collect sources, pull out quotes and keep citations straight in one place while you write a research paper.
The paper you cannot re-find is the one you end up citing badly. Save the link, the claim you took from it, and the page — at the moment you read it, not at the end when you are reconstructing where things came from.
A note that records what you thought about a source is worth more later than a highlight. Highlights tell you a sentence mattered; the note tells you why, which is the part you will have forgotten.
Abstract, then figures, then conclusion, and only then the method. Most papers can be ruled in or out in three minutes that way, and the ones that survive deserve the full read.
Write the one-line summary before you move on. If you cannot state what the paper found in a sentence, you have not finished reading it — and that sentence is what your literature review is made of.
A pile of relevant papers is not an argument. The turn happens when you can say what they collectively support, and where they disagree — the disagreement is usually where your contribution sits.
When the reading contradicts the claim you started with, revise the claim. A working thesis that never moved is usually a sign the reading stopped early: see the research paper thesis guide.
Yes. It organises sources and notes in the browser and needs no account.
Record the claim you took, the page it came from, and what you thought about it. The link and the highlight are easy to recover later; your reasoning is not.
Abstract, figures, conclusion, then method. That rules most papers in or out in a few minutes and reserves the full read for the ones that matter.
When you can state what they collectively support and where they disagree. If a source contradicts your working thesis, revise the thesis rather than dropping the source.
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