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Can Search+ find common themes across documents?

Yes. Ask Search+ for themes, patterns or repeated claims across a workspace, and it answers with citations to the documents each one appears in. This works best on a focused set of related documents.

Pattern questions are where a workspace helps most, because the answer depends on evidence spread across many files. Examples: "Which risks do most of these reports mention?" or "What methods do these papers use, and which ones repeat?"

Check the citations for each theme. A theme supported by one passage in one document is weaker than one that appears across several sources.

Based on the Find patterns across documents prompt in Search+, October 2026.

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Can Search+ summarize several PDFs at once?
Yes. Ask for a summary of a whole workspace and Search+ summarizes across the documents in it, with citations to each source it draws on.
Can Search+ compare two documents?
Yes. Put both PDFs in a workspace and ask Search+ to compare them, and it points out where they agree and differ with a citation to each source.
Can I use Search+ for a literature review?
Yes, for the reading and synthesis work: put the papers as PDFs in one workspace and ask across them for themes, methods and disagreements.

Last reviewed 2026-10-11 by the Search+ team

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