Share a research reading list
Papers the group is reading, who read what, a two-line summary and what’s up for journal club. Before you start a paper, ask whether someone already summarized it.
An example
@ADoor Add "Attention Is All You Need", Vaswani et al. 2017. I read it, key idea is self-attention instead of recurrence. Suggest it for journal club.
ADoor Added 1 entry to Papers
What you can ask later
- “What has someone in the group already read on retrieval?”
- “What’s up for journal club next week?”
- “Which papers did more than two people flag as important?”
- “Summarize what we’ve noted on diffusion models.”
Who can see what
- Group members add papers and their own notes, and read everyone’s.
- Visiting students can read the list without editing others’ notes.
- Collaborators at another university can get access to one topic’s papers only.
How it compares with Zotero or Mendeley
Zotero is better at the reference work: saving PDFs, citation styles and plugins for your word processor.
The group’s shared memory fits ADoor well: who read what and what they thought, in a form anyone’s assistant can ask about.
How to start
- Connect ADoor to your assistant. ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Cursor all connect through MCP.
- Tell it: “Keep our group’s reading list: Papers (title, authors, year, link, topic, read by, summary, journal club).”
- Invite the group, and give outside collaborators access to one topic.
Questions people ask
Can I start from chat?
Yes. Tell your assistant about a paper, and it’s added to the list. To bring your Zotero library over, export it as CSV and attach the file in your assistant.
Can it store the PDFs?
ADoor doesn’t store files. Save the link or DOI.
How much does ADoor cost?
The free plan holds 3 tables and 100 rows, enough to start a list like this. Pro is $10 a month per workspace, with 1 GB of storage and no per-GB charges.
Can I get my data out?
Yes. Anything you can see downloads as CSV or JSON.
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Updated October 20, 2026.