Maybe a bit off-topic: For my PhD, I wanted to leverage LLMs and AI to speed up the literature review process*. Due to time constraints, this never really lifted off for me. At the time I checked (about 6 months ago), several tools were already available (NotebookLM, Anara, Connected Papers, ZotAI, Litmaps, Consensus, Research Rabbit) supporting Literature Review. They have all pros and cons (and different scopes), but my biggest requirement would be to do this on my Zotero bibliographic collection (available offline as PDF/ePub).
ZotAI can use LMStudio (for embeddings and LLM models), but at that time, ZotAI was super slow and buggy.
Instead of going through the valley of sorrows (as threatofrain shared in the blog post - thanks for that), is there a more or less out-of-the-box solution (paid or free) for the demand (RAG for local literature review support)?
*If I am honest, it was rather a procrastination exercise, but this is for sure relatable for readers of HN :-D