What is ScholarlyNotes

A quick tour of ScholarlyNotes — your workspace for organizing papers, taking connected notes, and drafting research writing in one place.

What is ScholarlyNotes?

ScholarlyNotes is a workspace built for one job: making the day-to-day

work of doing research less scattered. Instead of juggling a reference

manager, a notes app, a word processor, and your inbox, everything from

your reading library to your final draft lives in one place — and stays

connected.

Add papers, books, and other sources to your Library by hand, or

pull them straight in from OpenAlex through Discover, complete with

abstracts and an AI-generated plain-language summary. Every source gets

a short citation key (like `[@smith2023]`) you can drop into any note

or draft to cite it instantly.

Write reading notes in Markdown, cite the papers you're drawing on

inline as you go, and attach figures. When you're done, generate a

clean, correctly formatted reference list in APA, MLA, Chicago,

Harvard, IEEE, or Vancouver style — no manual reformatting.

The Drafts editor breaks a paper into sections — Abstract,

Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Results, Discussion,

Conclusion, and any custom sections you add — tracks a target venue

and deadline, and shows your progress against a word-count target per

section, all while pulling citations from the same library.

Search OpenAlex's index of scholarly work, browse an author's other

papers, and surface related work for anything already in your library,

so you're never starting a literature search from zero.

Save a search once, and Digests emails you only the genuinely new

papers that match it — no re-running the same query every week.

> New here? Start by adding a few papers to your Library, then open

> Discover to find what's related.