Save research papers to Zotero from a Telegram link

Send a DOI link on Telegram and it adds the paper to Zotero with a short AI summary of the abstract.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Transient Trigger (23)

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The problem it solves

Building a research library means tracking down full citation details, finding a PDF, and typing everything into your reference manager by hand for every paper you want to save. It's a tedious detour from actually reading the research.

Who it fits

A researcher, student, or academic who collects papers into a Zotero library.

How it works

  1. You send a DOI or arXiv link to your Telegram bot
  2. The system looks up the paper's metadata from academic databases
  3. It finds the best available PDF link when one exists
  4. A new entry with full citation details is created in Zotero
  5. You receive an AI-written summary of the abstract back in Telegram
What you get

Papers filed in your library the moment you read them

You send a paper's link to Telegram and it lands in your Zotero library with full citation details and a short summary of the abstract.

What you get

A new, fully cited entry in your Zotero library, plus a short summary sent back to you in Telegram.

What you need

A Telegram bot, a Zotero account, and an AI model API key.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

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