If you are a researcher whether you are studying or doing a job, you must always look for references so that you can get an uninterrupted workflow from gathering of data to boosting overall efficiency. Today we are going to discuss a platform that provides a streamlined workflow in reference management. The tool is Afforai, which is an AI-backed and all-in-one reference management software that works as a comprehensive research assistant and chatbot as it can assist in you various tasks such as managing references, conducting literature reviews, annotating documents, literature reviews, and writing papers. It consists of a great array of features that give a significant boost to the capabilities of researchers. Its tool makes it an inevitable platform for researchers as it offers tools in all aspects of research. It uses the power of advanced AI technologies, to provide you meaningful and insightful assistance in various research and conversational tasks.
Features of Afforai: –
So, let’s discuss some features of the platform. The first one is a reference manager manages your all references with the help of folders and tags, so that you can effectively manage them. You can upload documents in any desirable format such as pdf, docx, txt or any other, even it supports URLs as well. It provides you access to generate citations and bibliographies in 10k+ citation styles. You can easily share the libraries by creating shared libraries with personalized permissions.
Research Assitant: – To provide you best possible results the platform employs advanced AI algorithms to examine and research on a huge amount of data and multiple papers at the same time so that you can easily get appropriate answers supported by trustworthy data sources. Besides, AI modes have several modes like document retrieval mode that helps you to search uploaded files, and semantic scholar mode gives you access to a database of more than 200M papers which are peer-reviewed to enhance your research. Afforai Notebook enables you to make different types of annotations on PDFs, whether it is highlighting, or making notes, it has Tag AI which can evolve, elaborate, and gain insights into annotations provided by any users and can also share those annotations by tagging your colleague in shared libraries. Affroi Cite extension allows you to access your whole library, and AI research assistant in Microsoft Word. With the help of MS Word, you can insert citations and bibliographies directly into your documents and can choose various citation styles. AI assistant improves writing, overcomes writer’s block, and improves workflow.
Pricing plans of Afforai: –
After knowing this much about the platform, you must be thinking, about how much you will charged for the features offered by the platform. It has a free plan which provides you leverage to understand how effective the platform is for your working goals, it also has paid plans once you are satisfied with its features you should opt for paid plans. So firstly, let’s discuss about the free plan, which is also named as Starter plan, it comes with various benefits such as 20 AI queries per day, 500 MB storage, a reference manager, an AI research assistant, a cite extension, and Standard AI models. Now, let’s see the paid plans, in this category there are 3 tiers. 1st tier is the Student Plan, which includes all the benefits of the free plan plus unlimited AI queries, and 5GB storage. 2nd tier is the Professional Plan, which gives all the benefits of the Student plan plus some extra benefits such as 10GB storage, Advanced AI models, API access, and bring your own key. The third and last tier is Unlimited, which provides all the benefits of
Professional plan plus several other benefits such as unlimited storage, and organization billing & discounts. All paid plans come with 30 30-day money-back guarantee.
Conclusion
As we come towards the end of our discussion, we would like to state that you must try the platform, as it can simplify the process of research and writing by blending advanced AI with easy-to-use tools like Reference Manager, Research Assistant, and more. As it can integrate with various platforms and provides various research modes so that whether you are in academic or building your career, anyone can use the platform without any restrictions. So, you must try the platform at once and understand whether the platform is aligned with your business goals or not.
