What this tool does
Litmus Note helps you decide whether a research idea is worth pursuing, by grounding it in an auditable literature search. The output is a Research Concept Note: evidence plus your own go / no-go decision.
The grounding rule
Every extracted claim carries a verbatim quote from the source abstract, checked against that abstract in this browser. A quote that does not appear in the source is rejected: the field is marked unverified and is excluded from the note. If the abstract is silent, the field reads "not reported in the abstract" instead of a plausible invention. This is enforced, not advisory.
Not
- A systematic review tool: one reviewer, two databases, no registered protocol.
- A novelty oracle: novelty cannot be established from a non-exhaustive search.
- A proposal generator: no methodology design, budget, or timeline.
- A reference manager: no PDF storage, no citation styles beyond BibTeX.
- Full-text analysis: abstracts and metadata only, and the note says so.
- An author: AI-assisted passages are marked drafts, and the decision is yours.
Standing disclosures
- Publication bias: the corpus over-represents positive results, so a gap may be reporting bias rather than absence of work.
- Coverage bias, quantified: indexing under-represents non-English and regional literature. Your note reports the measured share.
- Similarity advisory: passages closely reproducing a source abstract are flagged, never silently kept.
- Privacy: projects, run records, and settings live in this browser. Clearing site data deletes them.