research-lit

To automate a literature review, you can use this skill to search, rank, and summarize scholarly works across Zotero, Obsidian vaults, local PDFs, and web sources. It extracts metadata and annotations to build a structured literature landscape with themes and citations.

Yes, you can synthesize research papers by providing a specific topic. The skill identifies relevant scholarly works, summarizes core contributions, and generates a literature synthesis highlighting gaps, trends, and actionable ideas linked back to original sources.

The tool works directly with your existing Obsidian vault and Zotero library. It aggregates papers from these sources alongside local PDFs and web searches, extracting key metadata like title, authors, venue, and year to compile structured summaries suitable for injection into research notes.

The best way to build a literature baseline is to provide a topic and let the skill aggregate sources. It searches Zotero, Obsidian, PDFs, and the web, then annotates and ranks results to produce structured summaries, thematic groupings, and citations for your research notes.

To generate structured summaries and thematic groupings, the skill extracts key metadata and user annotations from your aggregated papers. It uses this data to compile a comprehensive landscape, ranking results to highlight research gaps and trends for synthesis.

While the skill handles complex topics by searching and ranking sources, the quality of the literature synthesis depends on the available papers in your Zotero, Obsidian, local PDFs, and web sources. It compiles structured summaries based on extracted metadata and user annotations.