Automations
Weekly paper scan automation
New papers in your field, filtered by your actual question, with one-paragraph verdicts.
Last reviewed July 17, 2026
A cron automation recipe that scans for new research papers weekly, filters them against your standing question, and files structured mini-reviews.
Schedule: Wednesdays at 07:00
0 7 * * 3Automation instructions
Search for papers published in the last 7 days on: [your specific research question, not just the field]. For each candidate, judge relevance against my question before including it; a matching keyword is not relevance. Per included paper: title with link, the claim in one sentence, the method and sample in one sentence, and a verdict line: read fully, skim the results, or skip (with reason). Cap at 5 papers ranked by relevance. Append to /Research/paper-scan.md under a dated heading. If nothing genuinely relevant appeared, write the one-line nothing-this-week entry; do not lower the bar to fill space.
Set it up
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Copy the instructions
The filter quality depends on the question: 'retrieval degradation in long-context models' beats 'LLM research'.
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Create the automation
Midweek at 07:00 catches the week's uploads and gives you the scan with coffee.
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Feed the verdicts back
When a read-fully verdict was wrong, say so in the automation's chat; the standard tightens.