Folio Search
One search across every source. Then a mind that reads it.
Type a topic, thesis, or half-formed question. Folio fans it across academic databases, the open web, books and lectures at once — results stream in live — then the Synthesizer thinks through them and hands you the sources that matter.
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This corner is well-trodden — you'll want Vaswani 2017 as your primary anchor. For a retrieval angle, though…▍
Every source, streaming at once
Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref, arXiv, Europe PMC, DOAJ, plus books, the open web and video — fanned out in parallel so the page fills as each source lands, not after the slowest one.
A Synthesizer that thinks aloud
Open the Synthesizer and watch it reason through your results — "this corner is well-trodden… you’ll want this as a primary… now, a theoretical angle" — pointing you to what to read first and why.
Grounded — it can’t invent a paper
The Synthesizer may only cite the real sources Folio retrieved, by number. Every chip it drops points to a genuine result. No hallucinated titles, no fabricated DOIs — the integrity is structural.
Straight into your library
Save any result in a click, or select a bundle and turn it into a seeded literature-review document — complete with a synthesis matrix and real citation chips — in one step.
How it works
Search once
One query fans out across every live source in parallel. Refine with operators like author:, year:2020-2024 or "exact phrase" — and filter by open-access or recency without re-running.
Let it synthesize
The Synthesizer reads across the results and narrates its thinking, citing the primary sources and theoretical angles as it goes. A sidebar fills with the sources it leans on.
Turn it into a draft
Select the sources you want and Folio bundles them into your library and opens a literature-review document, seeded with a synthesis matrix and real citations — ready to write.
What you get
Questions, answered
How is this different from a normal literature search?
Two ways. It runs every source at once and streams them in live, so you see the whole landscape immediately. And the Synthesizer doesn’t just list results — it reads across them and tells you where to start and why.
Does the Synthesizer make things up like other AI tools?
No — and this is the point. It can only cite the sources Folio actually retrieved, referenced by number, so every source it names is a real result you can open. It also tells you honestly when the literature is thin rather than padding.
Which sources does it search?
Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref, arXiv, Europe PMC and DOAJ for papers; Google Books and Open Library for books; plus the open web and YouTube for talks and lectures. We don’t promise sources we can’t search honestly (no scraped Google Scholar).
What happens to the sources I pick?
They save to your library — auto-embedded for semantic search — and you can bundle a selection into a new literature-review document, seeded with a synthesis matrix and real citation chips.
Which plan includes Folio Search?
The search itself is free — fan a query across every source, follow the citation graph, and save what you find, as much as you like. The Synthesizer, the grounded mind that reads across your results, is part of the Fellow and Chair plans.
Start a paper the honest way.
One search, every source, nothing invented. Start free.
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