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Loops: a weekly research digest that comes to you

Pick a few keywords and a time. Once a week, Alfred searches the world for what's new on your topic over the last 7 days and emails you a digest, saved in your workspace as an Insight.

Staying current means checking the same searches over and over. Loops does that watching for you.

Set one up in Settings, Loops: add up to five keywords (say, “nanoparticle cancer”), pick a day and a time in your own timezone, and switch it on.

What happens each week

  • Alfred searches the last 7 days across new papers, preprints, findings, funding, and conferences for your keywords.
  • You get a digest by email at the time you chose, written to be read in a couple of minutes, with links to the sources it drew from.
  • Every digest is saved as an Insight in your workspace, so you can revisit past weeks without digging through your inbox.
  • Quiet weeks stay quiet. If nothing new and verifiable turns up, the digest says so plainly rather than padding it out.

You can keep several Loops and run one at a time, pause it whenever you like, or send yourself a test digest to see it in action. Loops is available on the Pro and Lab plans.