Tool Review: Using Anara AI for Literature Reviews


Dear Scholar,

When doing innovative research, you need to do a lot of reading, looking for a tiny grain of insight or a gap that fits your research perfectly and allows you to identify new publishable insight. Most of what you read, though, is not strictly relevant. Looking for important, impactful questions can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack.

A new tool we are reviewing this week promises to help you find that needle using AI: Anara.com.

Anara can combine insights from dozens of papers and answer questions on them, just like ChatGPT projects. The key difference is that it is made for academics, always answers using references to your paper, and can combine books, papers, video lectures and other formats. It even helps with note-taking.

Academic Knowledge Management Webinar • May 3rd

The AKM 2.0 webinar will combine effective note-taking strategies and project management skills for academics. Here are the problems I am trying to solve for you:

  • You spend hours writing, but struggle to find your ideas later
  • You're taking notes that pile up, but don’t help you synthesize
  • You feel stuck because you can’t see the “big picture” in your research
  • Your research feels like "going in circles", and you over-iterate
  • You waste time manually organizing or duplicating information
  • You keep forgetting which paper said what

If any of these sound like you, AKM 2.0 will give you a strategy to tackle these problems.

Of course, you will get a recording if the time does not suit you, and you will get access to the effortless academic community for support and follow-up questions.

Free webinar ticket with course bundle

Those who decide to go all-in and get the Essential Course Bundle will, receive a free webinar ticket. This bundle includes the three most popular and important courses on note-taking, lit reviews and academic writing.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend,

Ilya Shabanov, The Effortless Academic

You received this email because you signed up on EffortlessAcademic.com or Substack
Don't want to receive emails:
Unsubscribe only from the weekly newsletter (keeping only new webinar announcements every 3-4 months) or Unsubscribe from everything (You won't hear from me unless you sign up again).

The Effortless Academic

Literature Review Tools, Note-Taking Strategies and AI tutorials for the modern academic. Publish more with less effort and supercharge your career.

Read more from The Effortless Academic

Paperpal.com (Sponsor) Your AI-powered academic writing assistant from first idea to final draft. Use it to write, cite, take notes, and chat across multiple PDFs. Finished writing? Use Paperpal's AI language and plagiarism detection. Everything an academic needs, all in one place. Discount Codes:ILYA30 (30% off Paperpal Prime) Connecting Zotero and Obsidian Dear Scholar, I am currently in the middle of the Note-Taking Mastermind where 20 academics like you are learning everything I know...

Jenni.AI for academic writing Dear Scholar, There are several tools available to support academic writing. This week, we tested Jenni.AI. Jenni is a unique tool because it combines multiple aspects from other tools: MS Word for writing, Zotero for references and ChatGPT for AI assistance. Moreover, Jenni can find references as you write and do some sanity checks on your writing. This article examines three use cases. (1) Writing the outline with Jenni.AI and the various ways how AI is...

Obsidian gets an AI agent Dear Scholar, While I absolutely love AI, I always found that the AI agents underwhelming. They were slow and made many mistakes. However, this week I was diving deep into the Google's Scribe plugin which enables the use of an AI agent within Obsidian. For the first time, I feel that the AI agent was truly useful because it either did something that I wouldn't be capable of or would be too lazy to do. Going forward, I think Gemini Scribe is a must-use plugin for...