You read it once. Now find it
You read hundreds of papers a year, then can't recall where that one finding was. Hilo captures every paper, preprint, and PDF you read and turns it into instant, sourced recall — so no citation is ever lost again.
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If your work is reading deeply
Different fields, same job: read widely, connect findings, and build an argument on evidence you can trace back to the source.
Your reading, kept
You already do all of this. Hilo captures the whole reading trail as you work — so no paper is ever read twice by accident.
The hidden cost of drowning in papers
Papers read every year
Faculty read on the order of 264 articles a year — over 100 hours — and remember only a fraction.
“I know I read that”
The finding is real, but the source is lost in a sea of tabs and PDFs you can't retrace.
Re-reading the same PDF
Without recall, you open the same paper twice to rebuild a point you already understood.
The connection is on you
Every paper is a fragment; weaving them into an argument is slow, manual, and easy to lose.
You read the answer once. Now Hilo finds it.
From reader to synthesist
Your value is synthesis, not re-finding. Hilo handles the rest on three beats: Read, Connect, Report.
Read
Every paper, preprint, and PDF you open is captured automatically — nothing lost when tabs close.
Connect
Papers, notes, and sources are linked into one citation graph across everything you've read.
Report
Ask a question; Hilo drafts the synthesis from the papers you've already read.
Auto-capture every paper
Every paper and page you read is saved automatically — no manual bookmarking, ever.
Per-topic vaults
Each topic gets its own knowledge space — papers, preprints, notes, and data in one place.
Ask your reading
Ask “find every paper I read on diffusion models” — no digging through folders.
Cross-paper citation graph
Papers, notes, and articles join into a single citation graph you can trace end to end.
Quote & citation recall
Recall the exact passage with the source attached — never lose a citation again.
Draft lit reviews
Hilo weaves your reading into a draft — the synthesis starts from what you already know.
Familiar work, done faster
Literature review
- arXiv & journal papers
- PubMed & Google Scholar
- Review articles
- Reading notes
Read across a field as you browse, then generate a synthesis with every claim traced to its source.
Related-work chasing
- Cited references
- Google Scholar
- Preprints
- Background reading
Follow a citation trail once and keep every source you opened — cite the exact paper without re-hunting it.
Cross-paper synthesis
- Competing findings
- Methods & datasets
- Key figures
- Seminar notes
Ask how papers agree or contradict and see the connections across everything you've read.
Methods & source recall
- Half-remembered quote
- A specific method
- A figure or author
Describe it in plain words — “the paper with the survival curve” — and Hilo surfaces the exact source.