# Alfred fills in your papers' details

> Ask Alfred to look up the DOIs your library already holds and fill in each paper's title, authors, journal and date, one confirm per paper.

Source: https://www.alfredscholar.com/changelog/alfred-fills-in-paper-details/
Published: 2026-11-01

Papers uploaded as PDFs often arrive with a file name for a title and nothing else. Alfred can now fill those details in for you.

## What's new

- **Details from a DOI** - ask Alfred to update your papers' details and he reads the DOI stored for each one, looks the records up and proposes the verified title, authors, journal, date and pages.
- **One confirm per paper** - each paper gets its own card showing what is stored now and what it becomes, so nothing changes until you confirm it.
- **Whole folders at once** - Alfred looks up a folder's DOIs together, so a reading list of a dozen papers takes one ask.
- **Alfred sees what you have** - when you ask about your papers, Alfred can now see the DOI, authors, year and journal already stored for each one.

## Why this matters

A library of file names is hard to search and harder to cite. With the details filled in, your papers show up by their real titles, and Telescope, citations and manuscripts all read from the same record.