Paperguide Reviews

As a new student, I think it is a great product idea with a lot of potential. I found it helpful in speeding up the process of finding relevant research papers. The site doesn't necessarily have many papers actually downloaded, it can just recommend them. It seldom has them already, but sometimes. As a university student I can add the downloaded resources myself which is fine. But again, will require a fair amount of searching on my end. One of the coolest features is the writing area which allows you to generate writing and writing prompts to your hearts content. You can automatically have titles written as paragraphs. It will often add citations for you as well. The issue I found was, since I haven't added many references to my personal database, it will sometimes insert a reference from my own references that is not related entirely to the text written. It will sometimes mention studies and references you may not have but for the most part you are best making sure you've done and added the relevant reference materials yourself. It is cool they have included a plagiarism checker too. It is very straightforward. I heard they may find ways to improve it further in future. I heard because their customer service was quite impressive. Someone responded to my questions generally under 5 minutes in a considerate, helpful and patient manner. I realise that this software may still be in it's early years and will have several areas of development yet needed. But it is cool nevertheless in perspective of a university student. I mainly used it so far to find reference material/research papers easier for an academic essay. I think it has a lot of potential as it does suggest good points for essays. But you cannot really control the format or length of text generation or generate citations easily. It would be good if it was easier to just have citations/references found easier in the writing area. But like everything I realise this is a beneficial tool and a tool is only as perfect as an individual's ability to use it and the hard work they are willing to put in to get a desired result. AI won't do everything you need for uni perfectly. You'll still have to edit somethings and perhaps strengthen the layout of information etc. But you should give a certain level of thought to your writing tbf. It's cool aswell these features and also a feature to chat with documents. As long as you have uploaded the material (documents less than a 1000 pages as I found out from apparently being ambitious), you can ask questions about the material for better understanding which is a great idea. This is what they call "calls" from what I gathered. You get so many every 3 hours. But other than that you're pretty set. It's not as complicated as I first thought it looked. I think I'll find this really useful in my university learning for the most part. I think mainly I hoped there would be more materials already on the site so it wouldn't need to be downloaded since it feels like that's still going to be a lot of work in a way. At least the search features helps you know what is best to upload. And it would be really cool to be able to generate new citations and references easier on the wiring function. I did see you can ask the ai specific things. That is useful. I kind of wish the humaniser feature was also for the first tier offer. I'll give 5 stars instead of 4 stars anyway just because I like the product. Especially the writing generator and search features and ability to ask ai questions. It would be cool if you could alter the style of writing or have other settings but I suppose its not the biggest deal.

As a person with unseen disabilities and being someone who writes blogs papers and does much research, I’ve been looking for something that encompasses things that will help me be on a level playing Field and do my work constructively, especially since I have ADHD. As a user of various research tools, I bought paper guide and was impressed by its comprehensive offerings. This platform uniquely integrates features like AI, driven paper, summaries, efficient, literature, reviews, and what I find to be the best is a robust reference manager, which has significantly streamlined my research process which in the past has been extremely tedious for me. The ability to interact directly with documents through AI is particularly innovative, which provides me the quick insights. I need to improve my workflow. Additionally, their user friendly interface, and also most importantly their response of Customer support really enhanced my experience, and I think it could be a really great tool for both students season researchers, bloggers parents, and so much more. I can only see it getting better. I highly recommend for anyone looking to optimize every research efficiency and I look forward to using it more and updating my review as I go.

Of course, it doesn't produce research, but Paperguide is a valuable tool to explore, give ideas, propose insights, and also help get rid of the white page syndrome.
Results are really not bad both for paper exploration and for the writer. The writer works like a good non-expert and remains quite relevant within the scope of the question asked, and the syllabus alone may be very useful.
Is it perfect? No, but it's sufficiently powerful to give Paperguide the function of a... guide.

As far as my testing goes, I have not found big mistakes in my field, just some wrong references, but that's the case with all AI literature scanning, so double-checking remains needed, in that case it's very easy to do with a mouse over to check if there's a DOI.
Data extraction is also a pretty cool idea for a fast paper review.
All AI tools available for researchers have different strengths and weaknesses; there is definitely no one tool for every use, so Paperguide is useful in its way (quite different for me from Afforai, for example, or Scispace).

the UI/UX is quite good, nothing amazing but everything is straightforward, obvious and fast, so it fits the use. Link to papers, papers availability, or opensource archives could be improved, it sometimes open nothing (yes like SciSpace if you ask). DOI links seems to work better.

The support has been fast and reliable for me, which is a very good point for such tools that proliferate without being properly maintained and supported.

Use cases:

- For a senior researcher, it helps dig into new subjects and gives ideas for paper writing.
- For a young researcher, well, the writer can be, if properly used, quite powerful ;)

In a near futur, the issue of students home essays will really have to be discussed !

I encountered numerous critical issues over the past few weeks that have not been addressed promptly. The Chrome extension is unreliable. It frequently requires login, yet most of the time it fails to accept login credentials.

You cannot interact with clipped web pages. The tool will indicate that no PDF is available when you attempt to interact with a clipped page.

Uploading URLs often fails.

Paperguide is extremely beneficial for academic researchers. It offers numerous features, including a literature table, data extraction, the ability to chat with individual papers, and one-way integration with Zotero reference management software.