Episode 1 · 3:09
Introduction to CurTask
How CurTask keeps an unbroken chain from a passage in a paper to the sentence in your draft that cites it.
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A literature review rarely lives in one place. Your papers sit in a reference manager, your notes in a PDF reader, your comparisons in a spreadsheet, your coding in analysis software, and your draft in a word processor. Every time evidence moves between them, its link to the source gets weaker.
By the time you write, you are hunting for the page a claim came from. CurTask is built around one idea: an unbroken chain of evidence. Paper, passage, code, theme, and the sentence you finally write, each still connected to the page it came from.
It starts with a single library. Import a paper once, and any of your projects can draw on it. This is Home: your projects, your library, and exactly where you left off.
This library holds a hundred and sixty-three studies, each with its full text attached. A project gathers papers around your research questions. This one asks how universities are redesigning assessment for generative AI.
AI does the first read, but it has to show its work. Every summary and every extracted detail points to the page behind it, and nothing counts until you accept it. Open any paper, and CurTask has already read it: a summary, the methods, and the key findings.
Every finding cites its page. Click it, and the reader opens on the exact passage, highlighted. The literature matrix lines up every paper side by side, one column for each thing you need to compare.
AI fills the cells as suggestions. You check each one against the source, and you stay in charge. Comparing papers is half of a review.
The other half is interpretation: tagging passages with codes, and grouping those codes into themes that answer your questions. Here the codebook follows the two research questions, and three hundred passages are already coded. On the synthesis map, codes become themes, and CurTask suggests where studies agree.
When you write, cite with the at sign, and every citation stays linked to its source. One library, one chain of evidence, from the first paper to the final sentence. That is CurTask.