Scispace Integration (Add-On) in Zotero

NawariIde
Scispace (https://typeset.io) is another interesting and very useful tool. Integration between Zotero and Scispace will provide tremendous benefits. Are there any other Scispace Add-Ons or Zotero Add-Ons that have the same functionality as Scispace?
  • WANG Joseph
    I am experiencing Scispace plugin for Chrome. It is awesome. I strongly support your idea.
  • Fanist
    I am excited about this idea too. Now there is no related add-on in GitHub. Calls for help!
  • orhoncan
    there is a plugin from inciteful.xyz, I think they offer similar services.
    Also there are couple of plugins to connect to openAI API and search within the document etc.
  • Fanist
    hi@orhancan, thanks for your recommendation. I have tried but it works more related to connected papers, not like chatting with papers.
  • orhoncan
    ah sorry, I see.
    there is a zotero plugin from scite.ai and zoterogpt that uses openAI API to directly chat with papers but ymmv
  • timtak
    Of the various AI research assistants (Jenni, Scite, Scolarcy, Afforai) Scispace looks like it may be the most powerful (but they are all interesting and it is a close run thing). It also now (2025/1) has a quick Zotero connector for those have have their Zotero database on the Zotero cloud.

    To use it

    InScispace click "My Library" (a row of books icon near the top left) > import from Zotero > connect with Zotero > select a or many collections, and bingo it imports all papers that have PDFs and immediately creates summaries of all the TEXT based pdf!

    I don't think it imports other citations that do not have files unless they were created on Mend***** but I am not sure. Nope. They are all there. But if there is no file you can't chat with it or get a summary of course.

    The Scispace AI writer is pretty amazing.

    I wish I could do all this inside Zotero though because I have been using Zotero for years.

    I have installed the two best (?) AI plugins, ARIA and PapersGPT both of which connect to an OpenAI api and they are okay.

    ARIA currently allows collation of papers e.g. by keyword, but it may not be all that different from using Zotero search currently. It does not yet summarise papers and cannot see their content currently (it did for a while but the developer turned that functionality off until it can be achieved with less API use).

    PapersGPT summarizes pdfs but it can be a bit difficult to control on windows 10, and does not seem to add its summarizations into the Zotero database, but it is quicker than uploading to claude and then pasting to a Zotero note because you don't need to leave Zotero. Here is a video showing the issues and what it can do.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJJqwrDLpt4
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