# Loops: A Weekly Research Digest

> Loops is a weekly research digest. Pick up to five keywords, and each week Alfred emails what is new from the last seven days, with sources.

Source: https://www.alfredscholar.com/features/loops/

Loops

## A weekly research digest that *comes to you*.

Staying current means checking the same searches over and over. Loops does that watching for you: pick your keywords and a morning, and every week Alfred searches the last seven days of new work and reports back with sources you can check.

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Included with Pro and Lab

A standing watch: your keywords, your morning, and every digest saved as an Insight.

How it works

### How Loops works

Three steps to a standing watch on your field.

1. **Choose your keywords** Pick up to five phrases that describe your corner of the field, the same searches you already repeat by hand. "Nanoparticle drug delivery", "hippocampal replay", whatever you are watching.
2. **Pick your morning** Choose a day of the week and a time, in your own timezone. That becomes your standing appointment with the literature; change or pause it whenever you like.
3. **Read the digest** Every week Alfred searches the last seven days for new papers, preprints, and findings, then sends a digest you can read in about two minutes, with a source link behind every claim.

What you get

### A watch you can trust

#### Grounded in a real search

Each digest comes from a live web search over the last seven days, not from training memory. Every item links to its source, so you can open the paper or preprint and read it yourself.

#### Quiet weeks stay quiet

If nothing new and verifiable turned up for your keywords, the digest says so plainly rather than padding itself out. An honest empty week is worth more than invented news.

#### Saved as Insights

Every digest is also saved inside your workspace as an Insight, so your weekly reading builds into a searchable archive instead of disappearing down your inbox.

#### More than papers

Loops watches for new publications and preprints, and also for findings, funding calls, and conferences that match your keywords, the things that are easy to hear about too late.

#### Test it today

You do not have to wait for your chosen morning. Send yourself a test digest when you set a Loop up, and adjust the keywords until the results feel like your field.

#### Keep several Loops

Keep separate Loops for separate questions, a thesis topic, a side interest, a methods watch, and pause any of them whenever a project goes on the shelf.

"Quiet weeks stay quiet. An honest empty digest beats invented news."

What is included

### Included with every paid plan

#### Pro

Weekly research digests included. Up to five keywords per Loop, on the day and time you choose.

#### Lab

Everything in Pro for the whole lab, so each project can keep its own standing watch on the literature.

Where to next

### Part of staying current

Go deeper

#### Telescope

Compare the papers a digest surfaces, side by side and cited to the page.

Compare

#### Alfred Scholar vs Consensus

Staying current, against a tool built for searching the literature.

What it costs

#### Plans and pricing

Pro is ₹899 a month in India and $19 elsewhere. Lab seats five. Start with a trial either way.

### Stop re-running the same searches.

Set your keywords once and let the field report to you, every week, with sources.

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