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Read the original context alongside the answer.
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A summary gives you the overview. PDF chat helps you understand the details: an unfamiliar method, a difficult passage, or the evidence behind a finding.
Follow an answer's citation to the document and read the passage in context. Keep the chat and PDF side by side as you work through the explanation.
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How to follow citations to a source
Work through a document's reasoning one question at a time. Understand what it claims, how the research was done, and what the results mean.
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Understand the claim and the reasoning behind it.
Understand how the research was carried out and which assumptions matter.
Understand the results and the conclusions the authors draw.
Save an explanation or finding as a note alongside your PDF. Return to it when writing, comparing papers or continuing your research.
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