ResearchRabbit
A literature recommendation feed that grows with a thesis across months, if you prune it.
Evaluation
What to know
Best for
- Theses and long reviews
- People who will prune weekly
- Feeds that should grow with the project
Not ideal for
- One-afternoon maps (Connected Papers is enough)
Key features
- Collections over months
- Recommendation feed from seeds
- Author and paper trails
Pros
- Matches how a real literature project works
- Better than a one-shot graph
Cons
- Hoarding without cadence
- Not an extraction tool
ToolifyNav verdict
ResearchRabbit is the long literature habit. Connected Papers is the first map. Elicit is the table. SciSpace is the PDF tutor. Scite is the argument later. Start one collection for one project. Put a weekly 30-minute prune on the calendar. If you miss three weeks, the recommendations are about a person you no longer are. Confirm export of the collection before you trust it as the only map. Put a thirty-minute prune on the calendar and treat a miss like a missed lab meeting. The feed is only as current as last week’s honesty. Export the collection before it becomes the only map you have.
About
About ResearchRabbit
ResearchRabbit is a long project. Collections evolve. Suggestions track the trail of seeds. Weekly cadence or death: add seeds, prune clusters, schedule deep reads. Without that, you have digital hoarding with prettier graphs.
Hand-offs stay sharp. Extraction tables go to Elicit. Dense PDF tutoring goes to SciSpace. Citation stance goes to Scite. One-off claim checks go to Consensus. Topology snapshots go to Connected Papers. ResearchRabbit is the feed that continues after the first map.
“Done” looks like a pruned collection, a reading calendar, and notes that feed an outline — not a screenshot.
If you start three collections and never open them, uninstall.
Give each thesis or grant its own collection. Mixing two projects is how recommendations become a blur of everyone you cited in graduate school. Labels are not bureaucracy. They are how the feed stays sane. Unfollowed authors are as important as followed ones. The feed should get smaller sometimes. Prune or the graph is a souvenir.
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