Searching for papers can get messy very quickly. You jump between ideas, read abstracts, open lots of articles, and often change direction as you start to understand the topic better. That is a normal part of doing research.
ResearchRabbit is designed to support this kind of thinking and work with your natural workflow, so you can search the literature first and organize when you are ready.
Recently Found and Collections work together to support both exploration and organization.
How Recently Found relates to Collections
Recently Found and Collections serve different purposes.
Recently Found supports exploration. It captures what you have been looking at while you search and follow ideas.
Collections support organization. They are for articles you have deliberately chosen to keep and structure.
This means you can:
Explore freely without interrupting your thinking to organize
Return later and decide which papers are worth keeping
Gradually build structured collections once your direction is clearer
For when you are exploring:
What is Recently Found?
Recently Found is a space to save all your papers before organizing them into collections. It includes:
Articles you used as seeds
Articles you explored but did not save to a collection
This lets you browse, skim, and compare papers without needing to decide immediately whether they belong in your literature review.
You will find Recently Found at the top of your Library.
For when you are organizing:
Creating collections and subcollections
You can create Collections in your library or create them while you are exploring articles.
Collections can be set to a Parent collection and this creates a subcollection. Subcollections can also be a Parent collection - allowing multiple layers of organization with sub-subcollections.
You can edit collections at any layer, allowing lots of flexibility for organizing as well as sharing with collaborators. Learn more about sharing a collection with collaborators →
Moving, copying, and deleting articles
From your Library, you can manage articles across collections by selecting the article and clicking the Save to button or by dragging and dropping items between collections.
You can:
Move articles between collections or subcollections
Copy the same article into multiple collections
Delete articles
Articles remain in your Library even when you move them between collections.
Using Autosave for seed articles
If you want every article you use as a seed to be saved automatically, you can turn on Autosave.
This can be useful when:
You are working in a focused area
You want to keep a clear record of all your starting points
You are building a structured collection for a specific project
If you are still exploring broadly, a helpful approach can be:
Turn on Autosave
Create a subcollection just for seed articles
Review and reorganize later when your direction becomes clearer
