Paper triage
Identify the central question, contribution, method, dataset, and limits before deciding whether a paper belongs in your review.
AI Literature Review Workspace
Turn paper reading into organized literature review context
Lens is built for researchers who need more than a one-off PDF summary. It helps you read papers, extract structured notes, compare methods and findings, and keep the evidence behind your review visible while you write.
Literature review
Paper reading
PDF notes
Method comparison
Research context
What Lens helps with
Literature review work usually breaks down across many tabs, files, notes, and drafts. Lens keeps the reading process closer to the writing process, so your paper summaries, follow-up questions, comparison notes, and draft structure stay in the same research workspace.
- Summarize papers with attention to claims, methods, evidence, and limitations.
- Ask follow-up questions against uploaded PDFs instead of relying on memory.
- Compare studies by method, dataset, population, metric, or contribution.
- Convert scattered reading notes into an outline for a review section.
Useful research workflows
Evidence mapping
Turn paper-level notes into comparison tables that make agreements, conflicts, and gaps easier to see.
Review drafting
Move from summaries to a structured narrative without losing the sources behind each point.
Writing refinement
Polish academic English, clarify transitions, and keep terminology consistent across sections.
How to position Lens
Lens should be understood as an AI academic workspace rather than a generic chatbot. Its strongest fit is research-heavy work where files, questions, notes, and writing decisions need to stay connected.
- Use the main app when you want to work with papers, PDFs, or research notes.
- Use focused prompts to ask for claims, evidence, limitations, and comparison points.
- Keep outputs as working notes and verify important claims against the original source.