Product
One workspace for the whole research loop.
Read, ask, connect and write without switching tools. Every answer and every citation points back to the page it came from.
The workspace
Four tools on one quiet desk.
Section 2 · Method
Sensors were mounted at 2 m on lamp posts along 41 blocks, recording every ten minutes from June to September.
Your note
Compare with the 2023 Lisbon readings before citing.
Built for people who read past the abstract.
Highlight in four colours, pin notes to the margin and jump back to any figure. Your reading stays exactly as you left it.
Can you put section 3 in simpler terms?
Oriel
Streets with lots of mature trees stay cooler after dark, because the shade they gave during the day kept the ground from storing heat. Wind made little difference. (p. 6)
Which paper disagrees?
Oriel
The 2024 pavement trial finds reflective paving works as well, but only on streets without trees. (p. 12)
Turn every question into a cited answer.
Ask in plain words. Oriel answers from your own library only, and every sentence points to the page that supports it.
Night-time heat
Street trees · 6 papers
Wind · 3 papers
Paving · 4 papers
Building height · 2
See the shape of a whole field.
Oriel links papers that share methods, places and claims, so gaps and contradictions show up before your reviewer finds them.
Draft · Discussion
Canopy, not wind, explains most of the night-time difference between streets.
Suggested citation
Okafor, Brandt & Varga (2025), Urban Climate Letters, p. 6
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Dismiss
Write with the confidence of your sources.
Pull notes and highlights into a draft. Oriel suggests where a claim needs support and formats references in the style your journal asks for.
How it works
From a pile of PDFs to a draft you can defend.
Three moves, the same place. Nothing to install, nothing to copy between tabs.
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Bring everything in
Drop papers, notes and links into one project. Oriel reads them, tags them and keeps every highlight where you left it.
Drop papers, notes or links
heat-review-sources.zip · 14 files
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Ask while you read
Select a passage and ask for a plain-language summary, a counter-argument or the paper it builds on, without leaving the page.
Explain this in plain words
03
Write with receipts
Draft from your notes. Every claim keeps a link back to the exact page it came from, ready to cite in your style.
Add citation · Okafor et al., 2025
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In every plan
The quiet details that make it calm.
Reads scanned PDFs
Old journal scans become searchable text you can highlight and quote.
Ask in your language
Ask about a paper in Spanish or German and get answers that still cite the original page.
Projects, not folders
Group sources by question, not by file type, and move between them in a click.
Keyboard first
Every action has a shortcut. Press ⌘K to jump to any paper, note or draft.
Your files, exportable
Download your library, notes and drafts at any time, in open formats.
Easy on the eyes
A reading view with real typography, a dark theme and adjustable line length.
Give your reading a quieter room.
Bring your first ten papers in. It takes about two minutes.