research-lit

To generate a literature review, this skill searches across Zotero, Obsidian, local PDFs, and the web to find papers, extracts metadata and summaries, and synthesizes the findings into a coherent narrative with citations.

The best way to summarize academic papers is using this skill to analyze multiple documents, extract key ideas and gaps, pull metadata, and compile findings with proper citation tagging.

Yes, you can find and synthesize arXiv research papers by searching across multiple sources, analyzing the extracted text for topic relevance and recency, and relating the papers to build a structured literature view.

No external dependencies are required to search for papers and generate literature reviews, as the skill operates independently to pull metadata, extract summaries, and compile findings from your configured sources.

You compile findings and identify research gaps by running this skill to extract summaries from local PDFs, analyze the key ideas and contributions, and synthesize the extracted text into a structured narrative.

You should use this approach to automate multi-source search, extract summaries rapidly, and synthesize academic papers into a coherent literature review, ensuring topic relevance and recency without manual tracking.