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How to use Ponder
- Find the most relevant, usable papersWrite a question, and use the review to judge what deserves a close read.
- How to ask a good questionTurn an idea into a question that finds well, and adjust when it does not.
- Filter and follow up: go deeper from your resultsFilter, follow up, and carry the papers you picked into the next step.
- Research a topic in depthHand a topic to Deep Research and get a report with citations.
- Import your sourcesWhat Ponder accepts, how to upload, and how to add full texts.
- Understand the literature: mind maps and notesUse mind maps and notes to read deeply, annotate the original, keep asking, and return to the source.
- Analyze research dataUpload a data file and have Ponder clean it, run the statistics, draw the charts and write the results into a document.
- Academic writingWrite a review, paper or report, and refine it section by section.
- Find citations: supporting literature for your claimsHow to start a search, how to judge the candidate papers, and what an inserted citation rests on.
- Citations and tracing claimsOpen a citation to check the source, switch styles, review the references.
- Export your workExport drafts and mind maps as files you can submit.
- Use skillsCall a skill with "/" to have Ponder follow a complete method.