Marginalia

An agent-based literature management platform that works with your Claude Code subscription.

Features:

• Find PDFs automatically from Unpaywall, Semantic Scholar, and NBER
• Summarize papers using Claude to generate structured summaries
• Build citation graphs with Obsidian-compatible wikilinks

Open Dashboard

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How It Works

1. Import your BibTeX bibliography
2. Mark papers you want to read
3. Marginalia searches for open-access PDFs
4. Papers that can’t be found go to a manual queue with search links
5. Click “Summarize” to generate structured summaries with Claude
6. Browse your library in Obsidian with linked notes

Technical Details

• Uses Claude Code CLI with OAuth for summarization (no separate API credits)
• ~70-85% success rate for finding economics papers
• Summaries include: overview, key contributions, methodology, main results, related work

Open Source

Marginalia is open source on GitHub .