Blog - LitRevs

The Frustrations That Made Me Build a Better Academic Writing Tool

How my first review article turned into a nightmare of copy-pasting and broken citations - and why I built something better.

The manual copy-paste process of screening articles nearly broke me. Here's what happened and what I learned.

I recorded my search results, but not systematically. Scattered files. Incomplete notes. I had to backtrack everything.

Tracking one citation is easy. Tracking hundreds while trying to think about science? That's where it breaks down.

It's not Zotero's fault. Google Docs has limitations. But by the time the lag got bad, we were too deep to switch.