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Product overview

What ScholarThread can do, today and tomorrow.

ScholarThread is under active development and we are working hard to make it the product you deserve. Everything below the fold is already shipped; further down, the roadmap of what we're building next.

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What you get

Everything you can use right now. Available on web, iOS and Android — the same account, same library, everywhere.

Library

  • Import your Zotero collections with a single click
  • Enrich metadata from OpenAlex: abstracts, authors, citations
  • Add local papers or upload PDFs directly
  • Organise into collections, move items between them
  • Search across titles, authors, abstracts and notes

Reader

  • Read PDFs with a proper document viewer
  • Open EPUBs with the same reading surface
  • Deep-link to any page from a note, highlight or citation
  • Resume where you left off across devices

Highlights & notes

  • Highlight passages in five colors, each one convertible to a note
  • Anchor notes to a paper, a passage, or a concept
  • Link notes to each other with typed relationships
  • Templated literature notes and claim notes for structured reading
  • Full-text search across your entire notebook
  • Export any note as Markdown for Obsidian or your own vault

Citations

  • Copy a citation in BibTeX, RIS or any CSL style
  • Bulk-export a collection, a search result, or your whole library

Your notes, your files

  • Export your whole notebook as an Obsidian-compatible Markdown vault
  • Import a Markdown file or a full vault ZIP in one click
  • Round-trip notes through a private Git repository — your history, your host
  • Choose the direction: pull from Git, push to it, or both (last-writer-wins)
  • Every note has a stable YAML frontmatter — plain text, greppable, diffable

Integrations

  • Zotero: the world's most popular reference manager
  • OpenAlex: the largest open index of scholarly works
  • Obsidian: Markdown vault export + import with wikilinks
  • Git: any repo you own (GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, self-hosted)
  • Native apps for iOS + Android with offline reading and note-taking

What's coming next

No dates, because dates on public roadmaps age badly. The order below is the order we're building in.

Building next

The core value ScholarThread was built to deliver.

In progress

Concept graph

Extract concepts from your library and let you edit the graph — cluster papers by the ideas they share, not just by folder.

Planned

Tension links

Surface where two papers in your library disagree, not just where they cite each other. The differentiator against every note app.

Planned

Grounded chat over your library

Ask questions and get answers grounded in your papers, with a citation trail back to the passage that supports each claim.

Planned

Viva coach

Examiner-mode Q&A on your thesis + reading list — practice the questions before the day.

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