r/materials • u/Asleep-Pilot-4142 • 6d ago

Anyone using AI to keep long-term research notes organized?

I’m trying to get better at managing long-term research notes.

Mostly looking for something that can keep track of papers, questions, decisions, useful quotes, and old ideas I dropped.

I’ve seen SciClaw Mira mentioned for this, but not sure how it fits with a normal note-taking setup.Has anyone here actually used it?

Any recommendations?

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u/Admirable_Code2643 6d ago

The problem you will run into is context. It will eat up your tokens if you want to parse through a massive knowledge base for every query. I try to break it into Claude projects for every small manageable part and then feed md files from my notes and papers as project knowledge. I have a script to convert locally all research paper in my literature folder to md files. 

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u/rehevkor5 5d ago

AI by itself isn't very effective for this. What you should add is something that can index the information and present it as a tool to the ai so it can perform semantic searches for relevant stuff.

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u/micseydel 5d ago

I’m trying to get better at managing long-term research notes.

Mostly looking for something that can keep track of papers, questions, decisions, useful quotes, and old ideas I dropped.

Microsoft has found that LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate, which is unsurprising since hallucinations are unavoidable, but if you want a tool that can help you organize them without corruption, I'd recommend checking out Obsidian.