Tools

ToText is an iPhone app that turns any recording into a transcript, a summary, tasks and answers to questions you ask about it. It also includes a dictation keyboard, which can help with interviews, lectures, meetings and field notes. Freemium.

PDFAnnotations turns PDF highlights and comments into reusable notes. Extract, clean, convert and organise annotations and export them to Markdown, CSV or plain text, with Pro formats for Obsidian, Notion, Excel and JSON. Processing happens locally in your browser.

LaTeX Autofill is a free, MIT-licensed, offline plugin for Obsidian. Type what you mean inside $...$ (in English or Chinese, e.g. 'integral', 'matrix') and pick a full LaTeX template instead of remembering commands. It is listed in the Obsidian community directory and makes no network or AI calls.

Generate IEEE-style citations from a DOI, URL, ISBN or title. Review source details, copy numbered in-text citations and export a reference list to Word or BibTeX without signing up.

AMA Cite is a free, browser-based AMA 11th edition citation generator for medical and life-science references. Enter a DOI, PMID, ISBN, title, URL or source details to format a reference, review it, manage a local citation list and export to BibTeX, TXT or Word.

Excel to Markdown is a free browser-local converter for turning XLSX, XLS, and CSV files into Markdown tables. It lets users select worksheets, choose header handling and column alignment, preview the output, and copy or download Markdown without creating an account or uploading workbooks to a server.

PageStash is a fast, powerful web capture and research tool designed for analysts, researchers, and anyone who needs to save and organize online information. With one click, it captures full web pages (screenshots, HTML, and text), extracts key content, and organizes everything into a searchable knowledge base. Perfect for investigations, OSINT workflows, and research-heavy tasks.

A LaTeX Based Resume Builder that helps people create beautifully typed resumes in minutes

Perplexity is your AI-powered Swiss Army Knife for information discovery and curiosity. It's not just about answering questions; it's about empowering you to do more—whether you're looking to summarize content, explore new topics, or even get a little creative.

Cosma is a document graph visualization tool. It modelizes interlinked Markdown files and renders them as an interactive network in a web interface. You can use Cosma to create a portable knowledge base, combining rich hypertextual descriptions with the affordances of a graph view, contextualized backlinks, automatically generated citations, metadata filters and more.

Influence flower visualizes citation influences among academic entities, including papers, authors, institutions, and research topics.

The AI-powered article summarizer

Toolbox for academic reading and writing

Search the largest scientific corpus in the world. Discover and study research papers better with SciSpace copilot

Assistant is a conversational tool made by scite that lets you ask questions in simple language and get answers backed by real, up to date references. Think of like ChatGPT with real, up to date references, tailor-made for anyone discovering, understanding, or writing research.

Guides on prompt engineering to get the best out of the Large Language Models.

Bordio is a productivity platform for organizing all your tasks, events, and projects in one single place.

An open source research platform or ELN based on WordPress and the FAIR Data Toolkit that is Sustainable, Affordable, FAIR, and Easy.

With Dimensions, you have free access to a vast collection of curated research outputs and tools that help you source exactly what you need to advance your own discoveries.

Collaborative ELN and Project Management

Free, online mindmapping and flow charts

Web-based tool to converts Excel, URL, HTML, Markdown table and CSV to Markdown table, CSV/TSV, JSON, XML, YAML, insert SQL, HTML, Excel and LaTeX table.

A free and open source electronic lab notebook designed by researchers, for researchers, with usability in mind.

Electronic Lab Notebook done right. Bringing life to life science R&D by transforming your R&D with the industry's most widely adopted Life Sciences R&D Cloud.

MyMind is an idea note, quote, page, and image collector with the usual tag-style support. You add material from the web via a capable browser plugin; but, the standout feature is AI help in your search/retrieval of information, even without tags. It displays your saved material in a card grid—think Pinterest, Pocket, and similar—with selectable density and size. A large search box sits at the top with instant results while you type.

Understand the journals and institutes through publications

Find the best scientific tools for literally any stage of your research on Scolary.