[GuiA]

In grad school, I wrote my own academic research "organizer" using Django (the framework makes it really easy). It takes a few weekends of work, but then you have something really cool and suited to your needs.

And it allows you to do stuff that commercial software couldn't do, like use a headless browser to fetch metadata from the ACM website using your credentials (hey, I pay for my membership, and I have very reasonable rate limits built in my system). Sadly that's why it's the one piece of software I'll likely never open source :'(

Colleagues were always surprised to hear about my system, but honestly I believe that any tool you'll use consistently throughout your life is worth building yourself.

I ended up dropping out of my PhD for startups :) but I'll probably go back to research in the long term, and am looking forward to adding more features to it.

[Jugurtha]

Cool. Here's an idea you should definitely look into (if it's not you, I'll look into it when I finish my studies).

I spent countless hours reading articles all over the place, only to find most of them are the utter shit imaginable, you wonder how they even get published.

I am sure that, around the world, many people are like me, preparing a thesis or something.. So this shit gets read a whole lot of time, when it should in fact collect electronic dust on a long forgotten server, until it commits suicide.

Also, anyone preparing some work has to go over that to do a "State of the Art"... Where's the field at right now..

This work gets repeated. Why wouldn't it be done once every time an industry is moved forward, so you just pick up there and bring your improvements, instead of reinventing the wheel every time.

It's "something" where academic articles are reviewed, and I don't mean "peer reviewed articles" and what not.. More like Amazon with books: Readers write what they think the book is lacking, or is not.

You can search for the article, and it displays reviews..

This is because in many articles, the authors are major assholes abusing keywords: They include keywords, you read the article to find that they really only had one sentence talking about it.

They pack it with keywords in the hopes of getting searched for.

It can be a client for example, peer to peer.

You install your client, you choose some themes and keywords you are interested in.. And then each time you start-up, it shows "relevant articles" for you to read and review.

It'll help you stay updated on a current industry, a particular branch of an industry, etc..

[kaybe]

Well, once in a while someone publishes a review paper that does that. I found them quite good.. not as sophisticated as your idea though, but it exits.

I'm dreaming of a program that checks papers of all fields for me and suggests those with similar ideas in areas I'd never look at for me to read..