Make research useful again later.
The goal is not to compress papers into generic bullet points. It is to preserve the claims, mechanisms, evidence, limitations, context, and practical meaning that matter when the research is needed again.
About the project
A personal evidence system, not a folder of AI summaries.
Research Vault is being rebuilt around one rule: public knowledge enters the vault only after the underlying paper has been personally read, structured, and reviewed.Keep provenance attached.
Private source passages and page references can be linked to reusable insights. Public pages show the published summary and insights while the original PDF remains private.
Standard core, flexible content.
Every paper shares a small universal metadata core. Highlights preserve exact source passages; Insights capture the reusable findings, mechanisms, limitations, implications, and interpretations worth retrieving later.
Search ideas, not filenames.
Search operates across taxonomy, paper summaries, and individual insights, while source links keep important claims traceable to the underlying evidence.
Workflow
From source PDF to reusable research.
Upload
The PDF enters private storage with basic citation metadata.Read & highlight
Important source passages are saved with page numbers, notes, and context.Capture insights
Useful highlights become reusable insights that can support summaries and research questions.Publish
A reviewed public version is created. Private PDFs, highlights, and working notes stay in Workspace.Current direction
A living research system.
The public site, Research Map, and search are generated from deliberately published records. Workspace holds the private reading and writing process; only content explicitly published becomes visible on the public site.