Research notes lose their relationship to the original paper and supporting passage.
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Public Project plan
PaperTrail
“Can this research assistant cite sources without becoming too complex?”
Working plan
A local workspace that turns saved papers into linked notes with source trails.
Independent researchers, students, and writers working from saved academic sources.
Choose whether citations are generated during capture or only when a note is published.
Stack
Tools named in this Project
Every letter-stamped stack pill is a link to that tool’s corresponding landing page.
Conversation
Feedback on the current plan
AI Project Guide
Suggestion: turn the next decision into one testable rule, then ask a reviewer to challenge the failure case before adding more features.
@community-reviewer
The one-line description is clear. I would keep it and add a single example showing what success looks like for the first user.
I’m looking for the gaps that would become expensive after other people start relying on this Project.