Set up your library
Set up your research library and run your first cross-paper query.
Describe your research topic and Anara finds relevant papers, proposes imports you approve, creates a project folder, and runs your first query across everything at once. Use it when starting a new project or moving an existing one into Anara for the first time.
Prompt
A master's student in public health builds the evidence library for a systematic review from scratch.
Prompt
I'm starting a systematic review on school-based mental health interventions for adolescents aged 12 to 18. I'm looking for peer-reviewed papers from the last ten years, with priority on RCTs and systematic reviews.
Step 1: Search for the fifteen most relevant papers on this topic from your academic index. Show me the titles, authors, year, and a one-sentence abstract summary for each.
Step 2: After I approve which papers to import, create a folder called "School Mental Health Interventions" and place the imported papers there.
Step 3: Once the papers are imported, run this first query: what are the most common outcome measures used across these interventions, and which studies report the strongest effect sizes?What to add to your library
- Required: nothing to upload. The prompt carries the setup.
- Optional: a specific database to search first, such as PubMed or bioRxiv, which Anara searches ahead of the general academic index.
- Optional: papers you already have uploaded elsewhere. Name the folder they are in so Anara can move them or include them.
What you get
- A proposed list of papers to review and approve before anything is imported.
- A project folder that persists across sessions, so you do not repeat the setup.
- The first substantive answer to a cross-library question.
Follow-ups
Filter the proposal against your inclusion criteria.
Prompt
From the proposed imports, remove any papers that are not empirical studies. Keep only papers that report primary data, not reviews or commentaries. Show me the revised list before importing.Ask the first research question.
Prompt
Across all papers in my "School Mental Health Interventions" folder, which interventions show consistent effects across multiple studies, and which have conflicting findings? Cite the specific papers for each pattern you identify.Tips
- Organize papers into a folder before asking questions. A folder-scoped search covers every paper in it rather than sampling your whole library.
- Naming a database sends Anara there first: PubMed for clinical and biomedical work, bioRxiv or medRxiv for preprints.
- State a year range if your review needs one. Without it, results are not date-filtered.
- Read the one-sentence abstracts before confirming imports. Relevance to your question is your call.