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How might literature review – an intentional, creative, collaborative process – be supported by a digital workspace? Following the theme of two-dimensional organization that I explored in Scrollscape, I built a canvas-based web application for literature review called Citespecific. Copy text from webpages or documents with buried DOI/s2id identifiers. Paste it into Citespecific. An icon for each paper will be added to the canvas. Papers can be freely rearranged. References are shown as arrows. When a paper is selected, links to the paper’s Semantic Scholar page and (sometimes) PDF are visible. Citespecific is two-dimensional and shows references as connections. But it’s not an algorithmically-generated visualization with balls springing around all over the place. 🚫 not this → Rather, Citespecific is a thinking space where a researcher (or team) can grow their understanding of the literature alongside a durable, annotated map. Citespecific is built with tldraw, an open-source drawing a

Citespecific ← Josh Horowitz How might literature review – an intentional, creative, collaborative process – be supported by a digital workspace? Following the theme of two-dimensional organization that I explored in Scrollscape , I built a canvas-based web application for literature review called Citespecific. Copy text from webpages or documents with buried DOI/s2id identifiers. Paste it into Citespecific. An icon for each paper will be added to the canvas. Papers can be freely rearranged. References are shown as arrows. When a paper is selected, links to the paper’s Semantic Scholar page an

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