Research & KnowledgeDone with custom-built or unnamed agent Aug 1, 2025
Run systematic literature reviews with a research agent
Poster recommends a research-focused tool that does systematic review (slow but strong), adds notes to papers, and builds a research project over time.
- What They Did
- In the Reddit thread, the concrete recommendation for this use case is Elicit’s paid systematic review mode. One commenter says it is “one of the best” but slow; another later suggests pmchat.app because its assistants search PubMed, add finding notes to papers, save papers to a library, and organize them in folders so a research project persists instead of resetting with each chat.
- How It Went
- The thread gives no benchmark numbers or study results. The main tradeoff stated is that Elicit’s free report is only so-so, while the paid systematic review workflow is stronger but slow.
- Worth Knowing
- The clearest catch is speed: the commenter says the paid systematic review mode is among the best, but slow.
Try it yourself with custom-built or unnamed agent
I need a systematic literature review on [research question]. Search academic sources, define inclusion and exclusion criteria with me first, then screen papers and build a table of each study's authors, year, method, sample and findings. Finish with a short synthesis and a list of full citations with links, and flag any paper you could not verify.