Research Paparazzi
Just what you need to avoid doom scrolling
Best find of the year for researchers and academic people, but…
When I first got to know about arXiv one of the first things I did was search for whether it had a standalone app. But there was no official app at that time, so when I got to know about the app release through twitter the first thing I did was to download it and use it thoroughly, and as a user I have some recommendations regarding both some additional features and the UI/UX.
AddOns:
-Add “similar paper” feature.
-Guide for beginner to “how to read research paper.”
-Before you read this paper section.
-Comments atleast by top researchers on briefs and explore page.
-Researchers profile should be clickable.
-Names of researchers should be clickable in briefs section.
-There should be assistant in the scroll and/or explore itself to ask question from the paper there itself.
-Latest releases section.
-Most anticipated researches and papers section.
-Option to join different communities for specific topics (maths, ai).
-Filter based on institution/company/universities and professors/researchers.
-If possible let users see email (official) of researchers with their consent.
-The most useful feature I would want as a user would be a default section or prompt in Blog section where users can understand paper/research “like a 5/10 year old”, please put this.
-Give users choice to have multiple feeds where I can choose different topics so that if I want to read let’s suppose mathematics once a week I don’t need to search for it, I can simply switch to the feed i have created on mathematics.
-Please give users a feature to add the app as widget on his app.
-Future perspective =>
1. Let users visualise very highly top trending paper so that it is easy to understand and read, and make people stay more on app rather than going to gpt or some other app to understand in depth/simple.
2. Let researchers upload their Google notebook podcast of their research papers or lets them simply connect their google notebooks to arXiv app (that would be awesome).
-At last regarding visuals please make briefs more organized.
I know it’s too much to ask for 😅 but would be really awesome if implemented.
AddOns:
-Add “similar paper” feature.
-Guide for beginner to “how to read research paper.”
-Before you read this paper section.
-Comments atleast by top researchers on briefs and explore page.
-Researchers profile should be clickable.
-Names of researchers should be clickable in briefs section.
-There should be assistant in the scroll and/or explore itself to ask question from the paper there itself.
-Latest releases section.
-Most anticipated researches and papers section.
-Option to join different communities for specific topics (maths, ai).
-Filter based on institution/company/universities and professors/researchers.
-If possible let users see email (official) of researchers with their consent.
-The most useful feature I would want as a user would be a default section or prompt in Blog section where users can understand paper/research “like a 5/10 year old”, please put this.
-Give users choice to have multiple feeds where I can choose different topics so that if I want to read let’s suppose mathematics once a week I don’t need to search for it, I can simply switch to the feed i have created on mathematics.
-Please give users a feature to add the app as widget on his app.
-Future perspective =>
1. Let users visualise very highly top trending paper so that it is easy to understand and read, and make people stay more on app rather than going to gpt or some other app to understand in depth/simple.
2. Let researchers upload their Google notebook podcast of their research papers or lets them simply connect their google notebooks to arXiv app (that would be awesome).
-At last regarding visuals please make briefs more organized.
I know it’s too much to ask for 😅 but would be really awesome if implemented.
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Response from developer
Hi, thank you for this detailed feedback! In the latest version the Researcher profiles have been added! You can now see linked researchers bylines on the Feed, in Briefs, etc. as well as find their contact information there. Feel free to check it out! There is definitely still many things to work on, we will definitely consider some of your ideas as well! Really appreciate you taking the time to write this up, we will keep improving!
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Response from developer
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