Scholarcy

Scholarcy is an AI tool that summarizes research papers, articles, textbooks and videos into interactive flashcards that highlight key findings.

Scholarcy summarizes academic papers, articles, book chapters and even videos, turning long texts into interactive flashcards that highlight key information, findings and contributions. Files can be imported from anywhere, including PDFs, Word documents and online articles, and the Enhance feature adjusts a summary from a single sentence to a researcher-level overview. Spotlight jumps to the important points and concepts, smart highlighting guides readers to key sections, and users can annotate, take notes and organize flashcards into collections. Subscribers can export up to 100 flashcards at once, build a literature matrix and create one-click bibliographies. Scholarcy says more than 600,000 people use it, with a free summarizer limited to one summary a day.

Scholarcy at a glance

Best for: Researcher, Student
Runs on: Web, Chrome extension
Pricing: Free summarizer with 1 summary/day; paid monthly or yearly subscription
Released: June 2018
Category: AI research tool
Website: scholarcy.com

Key features

Summary flashcards for papers, chapters and videos
Adjustable summary length with Enhance
Spotlight on key findings and contributions
Highlights, notes and annotations
Collections for organizing reading
Literature matrix and bulk export
One-click bibliographies

Use it for

Screen many articles quickly for a literature review
Revise from textbook chapters with flashcards
Build a comparison matrix of studies

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