Extract a summary table

Paste a fixed extraction template, attach a paper, and Anara fills one row of your table with every cell traced to a passage. Use it to build a consistent research log across every paper in a project.

Prompt

A PhD student in biomedical engineering builds a sortable log of twenty-three papers on hydrogel biomaterials.

Please create a summary table for this research paper using the following fields:

Title | Authors | Year | Research question or objective | Study type and methodology | Key findings | Limitations | Conclusions and implications

Fill each cell using only what this paper reports. If a field is not addressed in the paper, write "Not reported." Quote the specific passage where the key finding appears. Do not add interpretation beyond what the paper states.

What to add to your library

• Required: the paper, uploaded to your library or attached to the chat.
• Optional: a custom field list for your research area. Anara replaces the default fields with yours.
• Optional: one completed example row, so Anara matches your level of detail and phrasing.

What you get

• One filled table row in markdown, with each cell citing the passage it came from.
• "Not reported" wherever the paper doesn't address a field, instead of a plausible guess.
• Rows that build into a dataset you can sort and compare across the literature.

Follow-ups

Run the batch across a folder. Requires Deep Search.

Run this same extraction template across every paper in my folder "Hydrogel Biomaterials." Return one table with all rows combined. Use Deep Search so you can process the papers in parallel. Keep the same column structure.

Catch a cell that looks too full.

For the Key Findings cell you filled: quote the exact passage from the paper where this is stated. If you summarized across multiple passages rather than quoting one, show me the passages you drew from.

Tips

• Keep "use only what this paper reports." Without it, Anara fills sparse cells from general field knowledge.
• Over ten fields, split into a descriptive pass and an outcomes pass. Long templates produce compressed cells.
• Watch the methodology cell: Anara may use a study-type label the paper itself doesn't use.
• Sorting by methodology or limitations across rows surfaces patterns that are hard to see paper by paper.