Agents and your Inbox
Standing tasks that run on their own, watch for new papers, quiz you and remake briefs, and report to your Inbox.
Three kinds of agent
Make one from Agents (New agent), a space's + add (watch for new papers), or a space template. Each runs every day or every week at an hour you choose, in your time zone, once right away, and then on schedule. Pause, edit or run now any time; run history keeps the last ten.
| Agent | Each run |
|---|---|
| Watch for new papers | Searches OpenAlex for new open-access papers on your topic through a Zetaris table, skipping papers you already have. The newest (3 on the first run, up to 5 after) land in your Inbox, and each with an abstract is placed against your sources: agrees with or disagrees with one of your passages (quoted), or new to your library |
| Quiz me on a schedule | Fresh practice from a folder, checked against your sources |
| Brief me on what changed | A new audio brief of a space, only when sources were added since the last one |
A run with nothing new leaves one quiet slip instead of a pile.
Your Inbox
| Tag | What it is | Button |
|---|---|---|
| found | A paper a watch found, placed against your sources | import → |
| brief | An audio brief is ready | listen → |
| practice | A scheduled quiz is ready | practise → |
| review | Your daily review reminder | start review → |
| Mail to a space from someone outside it | add to the space → / discard it | |
| agent / notice | A quiet run, or something that needs you (a connector to reconnect) | open → |
With notifications on (Settings → notifications), they arrive as push notifications on this device too (one per watch run, not one per paper), and a review reminder comes at your reminder hour (18:00 by default) when something's due. A kept account can turn on a weekly digest by email on Fridays.
Catch me up
✦ catch me up in the dock lists what waits on you and what moved since you last closed it (the first time, the last 7 days): practice due, files that need you, deep searches to pick from, watch finds, sources that landed, answers that finished. It's built from what happened, never written by a model.