AI reading assistant?

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I used paperpile for paper reading a lot. It’ll be really really really wonderful if there can be some AI reading assistant/copilot to help in summarizing and interactive content searching when reading the pdf.
either a de novo paperpile one or some plugin/integration of some existing service (there are plenty now, like chatpdf etc) would be great

I wonder if there is any plan for such feature?

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Welcome to our forum, @jksr. We’ve received requests for AI integration of different kinds and are keeping track of all; we do have plans we hope to execute by next year.

I don’t have details to share at the moment but there will be more clarity once we complete the transition to the new interface over the course of the next couple months. In any case, I’ve added your feedback to the topic for the team to consider.

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I was going to create a new thread but I’ll jump on this.

I’ve been using ChatGPT with the “AI PDF Drive” as well as NotebookLM. I think either should fairly easily be able to be plugged into paperpile… In my experience, Notebook LM handles the information within the sources better. But ChatGPT is better at creating a synthesis of the material that I can use to check my own writing.

The biggest hinderance of both is having to pre-select the PDFs that I want to work with. It makes it hard to add/remove sources as my writing develops.

The biggest use for paperpile would be in managing the sources that get fed into the AI model. Both ChatGPT and NotebookLM require require uploading PDF’s to interact.

My current workflow allows me to find an article online that I’d like to cite, add it to my library and folders via the Chrome plug in, and then add a citation within the Word plugin. In order to include it with my AI assistant, I also need to download the PDF locally and add it to the AI conversation. It would be great if I could integrate paperpile with my AI assistant.

Some specific feature requests:

  • At it’s simplest, it would be great if it could answer questions like “where did I read about X?” or “which paper argued for increasing Y?” and then provide the citation/highlight where it found that

It would be even more powerful if it could use folders and metadata:

  • Work with the sources in folders. I want to be able to select a folder and restrict my AI assistant to those documents.
  • be able to restrict the documents by metadata. For example, performing queries on documents published before and after a specific date or time period.

Thank you!

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thanks for the update