Elicit Surveyed 50 Papers Before My Coffee Got Cold
I dreaded opening forty PDFs. Elicit answered the question by pulling extracts from studies, with the sentences, in one view.
I needed to know what the literature said about a narrow question and dreaded opening forty PDFs. Elicit answered it by pulling extracts from studies, with the sentences, in one view.
The workflow: ask the specific question, skim the returned studies, export the relevant rows. What used to be a day of reading became a morning of orienting, and I started my real reading already pointed.
It's not flawless. Some extracts are out of context, so I click the study when a claim matters. But as a map of the terrain, it's miles ahead of a keyword search that returns ten thousand titles.
I use it to decide what's worth deep reading, not to replace it. The papers Elicit flags as central get opened; the rest inform the framing. Efficiency without pretending to be comprehension.
If a literature review looms, let Elicit do the survey so you can do the thinking. Drowning in PDFs is a solved problem; the analysis is still yours.