A short, explained list, instead of an endless feed.

Who it's for

Researchers keeping up with their field, learners finding their way into one, and anyone who starts the day with more incoming than they can read. Each person or team gets a workspace that follows their field and leans toward their goals.

What it believes

• Show the reasons. A pick you can't question isn't worth much. Every paper carries the reasons for its place, including the ones left out.
• Your goals, not engagement. It ranks by what you said you care about. It doesn't learn from your clicks, and nothing is tuned to keep you scrolling.
• Private by default. Workspaces show nothing until you sign in. What you hold, keep and switch off is saved to your account, and only you see it.
• A few, not all. About forty papers make the day's shortlist and one takes the stage. The rest are still there, with their reasons, when you want them.

Where it stands

It's a small, independent project, in beta. There's one public demo, which follows applied AI research, and private workspaces are set up by hand. There's no sign-up or pricing yet: we're still working out a way to fund it that works for the project and for the people who use it.

Where the data comes from

Papers and their abstracts come from arXiv's public listings, and every paper links back to its page there. One-line summaries, citation counts and authors' h-index, where they exist, come from Semantic Scholar. Neither is affiliated with Pool of Thought or endorses it.