Capture sources with notes anchored to the claim
When you save a paper, your annotation lives next to the specific argument or finding it relates to — not in a generic notebook you'll never reopen.
For researchers
A literature review tool built for long-running research projects.
Cognitive Continuity combines a literature review tool with research project management so sources, threads, and the questions you're chasing stay connected across months of work.
Literature review tool
Built for the way reviews actually happen: in fragments, across weeks, against a moving question.
Build an annotated bibliography from threads
Each research thread accumulates the sources you've read for it, with your notes attached. The literature review writes itself as you work.
Resume a half-finished review weeks later
Open the thread and the workspace surfaces what you read last, which sources are unprocessed, and the question you were chasing.
Research project management
Project management designed around inquiries — not tickets, sprints, or to-do lists.
Organize a multi-month inquiry as a thread, not a folder
Research projects are questions, not file trees. Threads keep the question, sources, notes, and next steps together as one living object.
Track sub-questions and blockers explicitly
Sub-questions, open loops, and blockers each have a place — so a stalled project tells you why it stalled, not just that it did.
Weekly check-in on what actually moved
A lightweight check-in summarizes which threads progressed, which slipped, and where to spend the next week's research time.
Who it's for
- Graduate students juggling coursework and a thesis
- PhD candidates managing a long-running dissertation
- Independent scholars without an institutional workflow
- Lab researchers tracking parallel lines of inquiry