lifan0127/ai-research-assistant

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Aria is a Zotero plugin that brings GPT-powered AI assistance to reference management, letting researchers chat with their library items, PDFs, and collections. It supports drag-and-drop referencing, autocompletion of Zotero metadata, GPT-4 Vision analysis of PDF areas, and saving chats as notes and annotations.

Use cases

• chat with research papers in my zotero library
• summarize academic pdfs with gpt-4
• ask questions about a collection of references
• analyze figures in papers with vision models
• save ai chat answers as zotero notes and annotations
• get help writing literature reviews from my library

When to choose

• you already use Zotero for reference management and want integrated AI assistance
• you need to query and summarize papers directly from your library
• you want GPT-4 Vision analysis of figures or annotated PDF regions

When to avoid

• you don't use Zotero as your reference manager
• you need a fully local/offline assistant since it requires OpenAI GPT-4 API access
• you need support for non-OpenAI LLM providers

Facets

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