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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

Mar 11 • 8 tweets • 3 min read

R Discovery is an AI-powered app that makes your literature review super-easy, super-fast.

It integrates with Zotero and Mendeley and is totally FREE!

Here's how to use it:

Go to App Store or Play Store and download R Discovery.

Select your research area and choose the topics you are interested in.

R Discovery will give you a list of recently published articles in your research area.

Here it's showing me an article that was published as recently as 1 Mar (just ten days ago).

This is very useful.

For better organization, you can create different "Lists" of articles for different projects.

Tap on the Library button in the bottom-right corner, then tap on "Create a List."

Give you list a name and start browsing articles.

Add relevant articles to your list.

Once you've added a few articles, simply export the list to Zotero or Mendeley.

You can conduct your literature review while doing things like commuting or waiting for a doctor's appointment.

Want to know more about how you can become an efficient academic writer with AI apps?

I have a complete tutorial for you. Link in my pinned tweet.

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