New papers in your field, minus the journal stack
A regular scan for new papers and patents in your area, distilled to the ones worth your reading time
- Runs while your laptop is closed
- Reports in Littlebird and by email
- Free plan includes 5 routines
Three new papers and one patent on battery recycling are worth your time.
- Read first: a low-heat process recovers 95% of the lithium from spent cells, tested on the cathode type you've read about all month.
- Worth a skim: two papers on sorting cells by condition, a topic you've returned to three times since September.
- Patent: a new filing covers a dry recovery process close to the one in your team's grant proposal.
The problem
Staying current in a field means journal alerts, preprint feeds, and conference programs. Together they form a second inbox that publishes faster than anyone can read.
So most people fall behind quietly and catch up in panic when a reviewer, competitor, or boss cites the paper they missed.
What it does
On schedule, this routine scans for new papers and patents in your field and distills them to the few worth real attention, with a line on why each matters.
You stay citation-current in minutes a week, and the panic-catchup session quietly disappears.
Try the prompt
Copy it into a new Littlebird routine, then set the days and times that fit your schedule
- Open Littlebird and go to Routines. Open the menu next to New Routine and choose Set up manually.
- Paste the prompt into Instructions, then set the days and time under Run.
- Littlebird runs it on schedule from then on. You can pause or edit it anytime. Auto-pause is on by default and pauses it if reports go unread.
You can also choose Create with Littlebird and describe the routine in chat.
Every Monday surface new academic papers or patents in my field from the past week
Why make it a routine?
Chat skills wait for you. Routines do not.
With a skill in an AI chat app, you are the integration: copy the email, paste the calendar, explain the background, then carry the answer back out.
Littlebird skips the middleman. It reads the sources directly, runs on your schedule, and never sells your data.
Frequently asked questions
How does it know my field?
From your reading and research context, plus the topics you name in the prompt. Narrow beats beat broad ones.
Will it summarize the papers?
It gives the gist and why it matters to you, so you only open the PDFs that earn it.
What happens to my data long-term?
It stays yours. It is never sold, and it stays under SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and CCPA aligned controls.
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Put Littlebird to work
Littlebird is free to start, and your routines also work on the web, iPhone and Android
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