Time
Read across fifty papers at once.
Ask across the whole project, and compare studies side by side in a Study Comparison Matrix.
For researchers and academics
Bring your papers and articles (PDF, Word documents or scanned). Pull findings onto a research board, map the evidence and the gaps, and draft a literature review where every claim points back to the page it came from.
Reading, markup, the board and search are free. Pro is โน499 a month, AI included.
Time
Ask across the whole project, and compare studies side by side in a Study Comparison Matrix.
Confidence
Answers come from your papers and show the page. What cannot be checked against them is marked.
Outcome
A literature review template drafts the structure; every line keeps its citation as you edit.
What you can make
Choose your papers, choose a tool, go. Everything it makes points back to the page.
Literature review
Pick the template, choose the papers, go. Themes, agreements and disagreements, each line cited to its page. One of 23 report templates.
Evidence and gap maps
Findings on a research board, linked by what supports, contradicts or extends them. Map a whole paper in one tap.
Study Comparison Matrix
Design, sample, outcome and limitations for each paper in one table, every cell with its page.
Ask your papers
Ask in your own words; the answer comes from your papers and shows the page.
Research Gap Analysis
A report of gaps and open questions across your papers, each one pointing to the evidence around it.
Explain Material
A short lesson on a paper or a method you have not met before, every point cited.
Audio Explainer
Turn a paper into an audio explainer: one narrator or two voices, as an MP3.
How researchers use it
Collect
Highlight a result and extract it as a finding. It keeps the paper and the page it came from.
Connect
Link findings by what supports, contradicts or extends them. The gaps show up as the places with no links.
Write
The literature review template turns the map into prose. Every claim keeps its page as you edit and export.
Audio Explainer
Turn a paper into an Audio Explainer: one narrator or a two-voice discussion, as an MP3. Three a month free, 60 a month on Pro.
Specialisations
Pick your field; the explanations, the examples and the report templates follow it.
What's free
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PlasmaText helps you read and organise your own sources. Check every citation against the original before you publish.