In January 2025, Scholarly focused on enhancing research capabilities, improving PDF analysis, and refining the user experience across the platform. From major improvements to research functionality to enhanced text editing capabilities, these updates demonstrate our commitment to providing powerful and intuitive educational tools.

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Major Features

Enhanced Research Capabilities

We've made significant improvements to our research functionality:

• Research is now much faster, with tasks completing up to 3x quicker
• Improved web scraping capabilities for better information gathering
• Added 'Steps' back to research with future plans for reasoning models
• Research now creates task lists 2-3x faster
• Implemented better citation system (beta)
• Research now ignores websites that take more than 10 seconds to load
• Added research plan generation for follow-up questions

Page Outline Generator

A powerful new tool for content creation:

• Generate comprehensive outlines for any topic
• Seamlessly integrate outlines into your pages
• Use as a starting point for detailed content creation
• Helps maintain structured and organized content

Improved Text Editing

Major enhancements to the text editing experience:

• Better handling of Markdown shortcuts
• Enhanced support for lists, checkboxes, and formatting
• Improved backspace and indentation actions
• Fixed issues with component creation and positioning
• Better undo/redo action tracking

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Improvements

PDF and Document Handling

• Reverted PDF/Flashcards analysis limits to count only non-deleted items
• Improved PDF memory usage and rendering
• Enhanced PDF text extraction quality
• Implemented better caching for faster access
• PDF Summaries now support charts with fewer toggle sections

Research Interface Updates

• Redesigned research interface for better usability
• Added ability to resize research canvas
• Improved sources transition
• Enhanced follow-up question generation
• Research line charts now have better hover functionality

Scholarly Assistant Enhancements

• Chat window redesigned with resizable interface
• Better handling of highlighted text and PDF content
• Improved markdown parsing for better formatting
• Enhanced linking of components in conversations
• Fixed issues with chat window positioning

UI and Navigation

• Updated emoji selector for better visibility
• Improved printing capabilities
• Enhanced sidebar functionality
• Better handling of archived content
• Improved content linking displays

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Quality of Life and Bug Fixes

Research and Analysis

• Fixed token limit issues during deep research
• Improved research performance and reliability
• Enhanced web result accuracy
• Added default prompt for direct link summarization
• Fixed 'Steps Taken' display issues

Content Management

• Fixed cloning issues for new users
• Improved public page error handling
• Enhanced Canvas text handling
• Better organization of archived content
• Improved content synchronization

Interface Improvements

• Fixed issues with sending highlighted text to AI Chat
• Improved chat window behavior
• Enhanced markdown parsing
• Better component linking
• Fixed various visual glitches

System Stability

• Resolved login error display issues
• Improved error handling for new users
• Enhanced content sharing functionality
• Fixed issues with page title updates
• Improved overall platform stability

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Looking Forward

As we continue through 2025, we're excited about the improvements made to Scholarly's research capabilities and overall user experience. Our focus remains on making Scholarly more powerful, intuitive, and reliable for all users. We're particularly excited about the future developments in our research tools and AI integration.

Thank you for your continued support and feedback. If you have any questions or suggestions, please reach out to us at [email protected]. We're looking forward to bringing you more improvements in the months ahead!