A reading list is not a literature review. The workspace closes the gap.
You have the papers. You have read most of them. But the understanding that connects them — the agreements, the contradictions, the quiet gaps — is still distributed across separate documents and separate reading sessions.
Search+ holds the entire reading list inside one persistent workspace. Ask a question that spans every paper. Inspect the evidence behind the answer. Return to the synthesis as the literature grows.
Twenty papers read. Zero structured comparisons produced.
Reading a paper produces understanding of that paper. Reading twenty papers produces twenty separate understandings and a growing sense that important connections exist between them.
The gap between "I have read the literature" and "I can articulate what the literature collectively says" is where the real work lives. That work is comparison, synthesis, and evidence organization — and it is almost entirely manual.
The answer lives across documents. The tool should look across them.
A useful research question rarely lives inside a single paper.
"What do these sources agree on?"
"Where do findings contradict?"
"Which papers address this variable, and what do they report?"
Search+ searches across every eligible document in the workspace to surface evidence distributed throughout the collection. Inline citations connect each finding to its source, section, and supporting excerpt.
When the question requires one paper's specific treatment, narrow the scope to that document without leaving the workspace.
Compare, synthesize, or extract — across the collection, with sources preserved.
Select the relevant papers and choose an analysis mode. Search+ compares claims, identifies agreements and contradictions, and returns a structured result connected to the underlying evidence.
The result is not a summary that consumes and then forgets its sources. It is a cited analysis you can inspect, continue, and build on.
Add papers. The prior work stays.
A literature review is rarely finished in one sitting. New papers arrive. The research question narrows. A finding in one source raises a question about another.
The workspace holds every document, every conversation, and every standing instruction. When you return, the prior synthesis is where you left it.
You do not rebuild the context. You extend the inquiry.
Turn the reading list into something you can cite.
Bring the papers into one workspace. Ask the questions that span them. Keep the evidence attached.
Start a workspace