A practical workflow for discovering research papers with natural-language queries, reading the original sources, and keeping every finding traceable.
How I Built a Source-Backed Research Paper Search Workflow
Searching for research papers sounds straightforward when you already know the title, author, DOI, or exact academic terminology.
The harder cases begin with incomplete information.
You may only remember:
A research question
Discovering, triaging and skimming papers before engaging deeply with the right ones has helped Shea Andrews to stay on top of…
Tracking what you read and annotate across dozens of research papers is hard. Here's how I solved it with a personal paper engine.
Every researcher knows the pain. You type "attention mechanism survey" into Google Scholar. 50 pages...
Disclosure: I work on Paper List, a project on the OpenNomos ecosystem. Every Sunday, I'd sit down...
On March 12, 2025 I hit a wall. I was knee‑deep in a side project that scrapes academic PDFs to...
A practical look at how structured paper summaries can transform your research workflow
