ScrollWise January Update: Multi-Model AI, Dark Mode, and Research Superpowers

The Research Problem

My dream for ScrollWise is simple: I want to do great research and content creation with as little friction as possible, and I want to give that superpower to other researchers and content creators across the globe.

The problems:

LLM’s are incredible for writing research, but they don’t have the valuable context that you as a professional gain as you gather materials and dig deep into niches.
You have 1000 resources, and managing them is an absolute pain. You can’t search across the 30 tweets, 4 PDFs and 7 YouTube videos you have available.
You have thirty tabs open with different resources, LLM’s and notes. You have Obsidian, Notion, Roam or one of thirty other research apps.

ScrollWise’s January v0.2 January update takes some big strides in solving these problems. Let’s dive in

Choose Your Fighter: Multi-Model Support

Introducing, the new model picker!

You can now chat with Anthropic’s Sonnet and Opus, ChatGPT-4 models and Gemini. This is a very early subset of models and we will be quickly adding more.

I understand that a lot of people have some… very strong feelings on what AI models are best.

I want to give you the option to choose from whatever model you’d like. You can also set your preferred model in your user settings by clicking on your email in the top right corner after you log in.

As the race between models continues, giving researchers the option to pick the best possible model for their use case will continue to be vital.

ScrollWise is your home… for everything research (PDFs, YouTube videos, arXiv papers)

PDF Uploads

You can now upload PDFs to ScrollWise and extract metadata from both arXiv links and YouTube videos!

These PDFs are parsed and made available to your favorite models, the same as any text material you input. So you can quite literally add all of your favorite research papers, search across them and use them in your discussions with LLMs.

This… is a massive step for researchers. Adding whitepapers, research articles, scanned book pages and saved web pages could be incredibly handy for folks dealing with way too many resources and way too little time.

Free users can upload 5 PDFs before they have to upgrade, while Pro and Ultra users (more on the new Ultra category in a sec) have unlimited storage.

YouTube and arXiv integration (Pro+)

YouTube is a great resource, and frankly, I had big plans for implementing full transcription extraction for YouTube videos. There are workarounds, but for some reason, YouTube does not expose transcriptions via the API. The workarounds are messy, questionably legal and did not inspire enough confidence in me that Google wounldn’t nuke ScrollWise from orbit for using a workaround.

So, I implemented a system that pulls the metadata from the YouTube video, from video length to title to channel name, and lets you add notes to it manually. This isn’t ideal, and I have a workaround floating around in my head, but that’s for a new day.

arXiv works very similarly: input an arXiv link and it will pull the abstract, title and authors from it. Wicked cool right?

This extraction is only available to Pro and Ultra users.

It’s less ugly

First off, I can’t believe I shipped a web application without Dark Mode. That’s here now, thankfully. No more burning your retinas on a late night research bender!

I’ve also improved the citation clarity and markdown formatting for your chats, and added full screen to the chat window. These are boring but important quality of life improvements for a tool that, I hope, you’ll be using a lot of.

For the Nerds

The ScrollWise API is now available for all you nerdy devs that like to automate things. Go to your settings by clicking your email in the top right, generate an API key and head to the API docs to learn more.

The Ultra Plan, Annual Pricing and Paid Plan requirements

Nobody really likes paying for stuff. I know I don’t, but I’ve got server bills to pay and ramen to eat, so I’ve gotta charge something for a wicked-awesome service set on revolutionizing the research game.

First off, I’ve added the Ultra plan. It has a much higher limit on chats, and is going to be receiving some early access to new features. You should definitely check that out.

The free plan gets 5 PDF uploads and 10 messages a month to the AI. You can create 3 topics and 50 resources within those topics. I want you to be able to try out all of the features in ScrollWise to really grasp just how powerful it is before you pay what amounts to my weekly order at Starbucks to get research superpowers.

It’s a pretty good deal.

I’ve also added annual billing for Pro and Ultra plans, which gives you a pretty hefty discount.

What’s Next

There are… some incredibly cool things coming to ScrollWise in the coming months.

The web browser extension is obviously a big focus, but over the next couple weeks, I’ll be adding:

Research notes, so that you can save your own hot takes to research papers and other resources you save. You’ll also be able to search across these notes and include them in your AI chats as expert context.
Public profiles, because if you have hot takes that you want to save privately, I bet you’d love to publish some research on your own ScrollWise research blog.

… and much more! If you sign up for an account, free or otherwise, you’ll get added to the ScrollWise newsletter where I share updates on development and blogs from my own research.

Have questions about the new features? Reach out on X/Twitter or email ceo@radc0rp.com