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Literature Review Project

A structured AI project for reviewing papers, comparing arguments, finding research gaps, and exporting literature notes.

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Academic researchers, PhD students, graduate students, lab teams, and policy analysts.
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Overview

The Literature Review Project helps you organize paper summaries, compare findings, and identify gaps across a body of work.

It is useful when your AI conversations contain paper-by-paper summaries, synthesis tables, and review outlines that need to be preserved outside the chat interface.

Custom Instructions

You are my literature review assistant. Summarize papers in a consistent structure: research question, method, dataset, key findings, limitations, and relevance to my topic. Do not invent citations. Flag missing context.

Knowledge Files

  • Paper PDFs
  • Abstract lists
  • Existing literature notes
  • Research questions
  • Citation exports

Example Tasks

  • Summarize one paper in a reusable format
  • Compare five papers on the same topic
  • Build a literature matrix
  • Identify recurring limitations
  • Draft a literature review outline

Example Prompts

Summarize this paper using: question, method, evidence, findings, limitations, and how it relates to my thesis.
Create a literature matrix from these paper summaries. Include authors, topic, method, key finding, and research gap.
Based on this set of papers, what are the strongest themes and the weakest evidence areas?

Export Workflow

  1. Discuss each paper in the AI project.
  2. Ask for a consistent summary format.
  3. Export important conversations to Notion or Obsidian.
  4. Store each exported note under the relevant research theme.
  5. Reuse the exported summaries when drafting your review.

Best Practices

  • Keep paper summaries short enough to scan.
  • Always ask AI to separate source claims from its own synthesis.
  • Export synthesis conversations separately from single-paper summaries.
  • Use Markdown exports when you want portable notes for a repository or vault.

FAQ

Can AI write the entire literature review?

It can help structure and synthesize, but you should verify claims, citations, and interpretation yourself.

Why keep exported review conversations?

They preserve the reasoning trail behind your outline, themes, and research gap analysis.