DeepTutor update: ask questions across your Zotero library
Hi everyone,
It’s been a while since we last posted here.
About 7 months ago, we shared an early version of DeepTutor with the Zotero community. We got 200+ pieces of feedback from people here, and honestly, a lot of it shaped what we worked on next. Thank you to everyone who tried it, left comments, or kept sending us suggestions after the post.
Since then, DeepTutor has grown to 4,000+ users. Our team has been focused on making it fit better into real research workflows by listening closely to what researchers actually need.
DeepTutor started with PDF chat, but that is only one part of how people work with papers. In practice, you often need to move between papers, find a section you read months ago, check related work, translate part of a paper, or look at the code behind a project.
So the biggest update is auto context across your Zotero library. Whether your library has hundreds or thousands of files, instead of manually picking the right paper first, you can ask a broader question, and DeepTutor will try to find the relevant papers, files, and sections from your Zotero library. It also shows source highlights, so you can check where the answer is coming from.
We’ve also added arXiv search, auto-tagging, in-reader paper translation, code and notebook support, and links from papers to related GitHub repos.
DeepTutor is free to try. We also have a referral program that gives one free month of Pro.
You can try it here: https://deeptutor.knowhiz.us
We’d really appreciate feedback from Zotero users. Feel free to leave any comments! We’ll read and respond.