Features
Everything CurTask does today
Every capability, shown with the real thing. What isn't built yet is listed at the end, and says so.
How CurTask works
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One review, five tools
A literature review usually means juggling five tools: a reference manager, a PDF reader, a spreadsheet, a coding tool and a word processor. CurTask brings them into one workspace.
Left and right arrow keys: previous or next scene. K: play or pause.
Import & discovery
Get papers in, whatever state they are in
Drop in PDFs, Word or OpenDocument files, Markdown or plain text — or search for papers without leaving the app.
- Duplicate check: the same paper is never stored or analysed twice
- Search open research catalogues and add open-access PDFs in one click; a paper without a PDF is saved and marked, ready for its PDF later
- Details filled in from the DOI, and yours to edit
Browser extensionComing soon
Save the paper you're reading, even without its PDF
Coming soon for Chrome, Edge and Brave: Save to CurTask saves the paper on the page — details, PDF, projects, tags and a note — in one click, and shows each step as it happens.
- The PDF is fetched in your own browser with your own access, then kept in your private library
- No PDF? CurTask tells you: the paper is saved with its details and marked, and you can add the PDF later. The AI analyses only papers that have their PDF
- Save several papers from a Google Scholar results list, or use the small Save buttons on Scholar and publisher pages (you can switch them off)
Reading & compression
Scanned PDFs, handled — in English and Malay
The text is captured before the file is made smaller, so analysis always has the whole document.
- Scanned pages are read on your own device, so their text stays private
- Hard-to-read pages can be checked beside the page image
- PDFs made much smaller, with every word of their text kept
Literature matrix
Describe a column. Don't build one.
Type what you want to extract in plain words, see the cost first, then run it across your papers. Every value keeps the quote and page it came from.
- Credits estimated before every run, and never charged twice
- AI values stay marked until you accept, edit or restore them
- No source found? The cell says so instead of guessing
Qualitative coding
Code your papers where you read them
Select a passage, apply a code, and it appears as a coloured strip beside the text. Codes flow into your themes and your draft.
- A codebook with colours that stay easy to tell apart
- Code by hand on every plan; on paid plans, AI codes every paper of a project at the push of a button and you accept or dismiss each suggestion
- Memos on coded passages, and codes offered from your other projects
Synthesis map
See where your papers agree and disagree
Group your codes into themes, mark which papers agree with, contradict or extend each other, and send a theme to your draft.
- A board and a mind map of your themes
- AI sorts your codes into categories and themes (paid plans)
- Send a theme to Writing with its passages
Modular writing
Your sources sit beside the draft, not in another window
Write in sections you can reorder, with your sources beside the draft. Drag a passage in and it arrives as a quote with its citation, still linked to its page.
- Outline, corkboard and binder views
- Optional marks show the sentences that have no citation yet
- AI text stays marked Suggested until you accept it
Citations & export
Eight styles, live, with page numbers
- APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Nature, AMA and ACS
- The bibliography is rebuilt when you change style
- Export to Word (DOCX), PDF, Markdown or HTML
Project start
Start a project from your question
- A short interview drafts your problem statement and research questions
- Or bring your own questions, or start without AI
- Everything stays editable before you go on
Library
One copy of every paper you own
- One Global Library, with each project's papers drawn from it
- Tags and analyses travel with a paper; notes stay in their project
- A reader with highlights and notes beside the page
Privacy & security
Protect your research with two-step sign-in
- Two-step sign-in with an authenticator app and recovery codes
- See the devices you're signed in on and sign any of them out
- Your data stays in Malaysia, is never used to train AI, and is yours to download in full
Coming laterNot built yet
Desktop apps, shared projects and supervisor review
Planned, not built yet: Mac and Windows apps, shared projects and supervisor review. None is in any plan's price today, and we'll announce each one when it ships.