Loops
A weekly research digest that comes to you.
Staying current means checking the same searches over and over. Loops does that watching for you: pick your keywords and a morning, and every week Alfred searches the last seven days of new work and reports back with sources you can check.
Included with Pro and Lab · 3-day Pro trial · No credit card required
How it works
How Loops works
Three steps to a standing watch on your field.
- 1
Choose your keywords
Pick up to five phrases that describe your corner of the field, the same searches you already repeat by hand. "Nanoparticle drug delivery", "hippocampal replay", whatever you are watching.
- 2
Pick your morning
Choose a day of the week and a time, in your own timezone. That becomes your standing appointment with the literature; change or pause it whenever you like.
- 3
Read the digest
Every week Alfred searches the last seven days for new papers, preprints, and findings, then sends a digest you can read in about two minutes, with a source link behind every claim.
What you get
A watch you can trust
Grounded in a real search
Each digest comes from a live web search over the last seven days, not from training memory. Every item links to its source, so you can open the paper or preprint and read it yourself.
Quiet weeks stay quiet
If nothing new and verifiable turned up for your keywords, the digest says so plainly rather than padding itself out. An honest empty week is worth more than invented news.
Saved as Insights
Every digest is also saved inside your workspace as an Insight, so your weekly reading builds into a searchable archive instead of disappearing down your inbox.
More than papers
Loops watches for new publications and preprints, and also for findings, funding calls, and conferences that match your keywords, the things that are easy to hear about too late.
Test it today
You do not have to wait for your chosen morning. Send yourself a test digest when you set a Loop up, and adjust the keywords until the results feel like your field.
Keep several Loops
Keep separate Loops for separate questions, a thesis topic, a side interest, a methods watch, and pause any of them whenever a project goes on the shelf.
What is included
Included with every paid plan
Pro
Weekly research digests included. Up to five keywords per Loop, on the day and time you choose.
Lab
Everything in Pro for the whole lab, so each project can keep its own standing watch on the literature.
Keep exploring
Part of staying current
Stop re-running the same searches.
Set your keywords once and let the field report to you, every week, with sources. 3-day Pro trial included. No credit card required.