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Studies
that cite
their sources.
A workshop for the long-form question
Branch a thread. Version a draft. Merge two lines of inquiry. Keep every claim attached to the page it came from. The Research workspace is the place to do work you have to defend later.
Today · what you can do

Four moves the workshop already makes.

i.
Branched investigation
Open a side question without losing the parent thread. Pin a snapshot when the line of inquiry matters.
ii.
Version-controlled notebooks
Named snapshots, 3-way merge, restore. Every draft is reachable; nothing is silently overwritten.
iii.
Source citation
Citations are part of the structure of the answer, not a footnote glued on at the end.
iv.
Multi-source synthesis
Cluster the day's reading across feeds and your own corpus. Find the agreement, surface the disagreement.
Today · shipping

The five workspaces in your library.

  • Research
    Studies that cite their sources.
    Available
  • Search
    A search engine for humans, agents and LLMs.
    Available
  • News
    Today, in one briefing.
    Available
  • Chat
    One conversation, every model.
    Available
  • Storage
    Your files, organised.
    Available
Soon

One workspace still in build.

Data
Coming soon

Drop a file, ask a question, get a chart. No formulas required.

Native dataset-driven analysis with the Data workspace — pull a file into the question, ask in plain English, get a chart that points back at its source.

Example workflows

Four shapes of work the desk hands to the workshop.

Flow 01

Literature synthesis

Pull twenty papers on a question, cluster them by claim, surface where the field agrees and where it disagrees. The Researcher reads, the Summariser distils, the Writer threads — every claim back to the page it came from.

Flow 02

Methodology drafting

Draft the methods section for a study from prior protocols and the question at hand. Comparable methods get pinned next to yours; the workshop drafts the rationale for each design choice; you keep the editorial call on what survives the review.

Flow 03

Data analysis pipelines

Hand the workshop a dataset and a question. The Analyst writes the cleaning step, runs the model, drops the chart. Code, output and rationale live next to each other in a notebook a peer can re-run.

Flow 04

Citation graph navigation

Start from a paper that matters. Follow what cites it, what it cites, what it argues against. The workshop holds the graph in your head — surfacing the lineage of an idea across years of literature without losing the thread.

One workflow, end-to-end

Branching an investigation on conflicting findings.

The shape of the work when two papers point in opposite directions and the answer has to defend itself.

i.
Research
Available
Branch on the conflict.
Two studies disagree. Open a Research notebook, branch a thread per finding, pin a snapshot before either line of inquiry diverges. The 3-way merge later becomes the synthesis section of the paper.
ii.
Search
Available
Sweep your library semantically.
Run semantic search across your prior notebooks and the corpus you've already collected. Find the paragraph from a paper you read six months ago that already framed the disagreement — not just the file name.
iii.
News
Available
Corroborate against current reporting.
Pull the deduped multi-source clusters on the topic. New data, new replications, retraction notices — the open web check that your literature snapshot didn't catch.
iv.
Storage
Available
Export the merged notebook.
Merge the two branches in Research and export the resolved notebook to versioned Storage. The pin from step one stays reachable; the merge is the new authoritative draft, not a silent overwrite.

What this isn'taskFinz is not a journal, a peer-review system or a citation manager that owns your bibliography. We don't replace Zotero, the IRB or the editorial board. The workshop produces the notebook, the synthesis, the merged draft you would otherwise stitch together across five tools and a folder of PDFs. The defensible version of the answer; you still own where it lands.

Questions

Frequently asked.

How does askFinz handle citations in research notebooks?
Citations are first-class in Research notebooks. Every claim the workspace generates attaches a reference to the source document, passage or article. The trail from conclusion to evidence is part of the structure, not a footnote added at the end.
Can I import my own papers, datasets and prior notes?
Yes. Upload documents to Storage and they become part of the searchable index Research reads from. Semantic Search finds the relevant passage across your whole corpus — not just the file name.
Is askFinz suitable for academic publishing workflows?
It suits the research, synthesis and drafting stages well. askFinz doesn't submit to journals or manage peer review — it produces the notebook and the cited draft you then format for submission. Your reference manager and editorial workflow stay separate.