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Get alerts for new research papers in your field
“I can't keep up with new papers in my area.”
A weekly AI job can search preprint servers and journals for your keywords, sort papers into read/skim/skip, and log them in a sheet or notes app.
Fix it yourself in 3 steps
- List your keywords, authors and the fields you follow.
- Set up a weekly search that logs new papers with a one-line summary.
- Have it sort them read/skim/skip by your criteria, and adjust as you go.
Copy this prompt
Each week, search [arXiv/PubMed/etc.] for new papers matching [keywords/authors]. Log each in a table: title, link, date, one-line summary, and Read/Skim/Skip with a reason based on [my criteria]. Don't download paywalled papers. Stop after the table.
Fill in the [brackets]. Each prompt says when the AI should stop, so it doesn't wander off.
Agents people used for this: Codex, n8n, Perplexity Comet, Gemini.
Inspired by real examples collected at agentusecases.ai.
📚 7 real stories of people doing this with AI agents
- Automate a weekly arXiv paper triage · Codex
- Catalog and summarize papers dropped into Drive · n8n
- Compile recent LLM research papers into a Word doc · Perplexity Comet
- Investigate papers overnight with a bot research team · Grok Bot
- Screen research papers against criteria · Codex
- Summarize new arXiv papers into notes with scheduled agents · Claude Code
- Track daily arXiv papers into a Notion database · n8n | Gemini
Collected at AgentUseCases.ai.
Check every citation yourself, strip student and personal names before pasting work in, and treat AI findings as leads to verify.
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