A project is your long-running research intent in Paperzilla.
It includes:
- Categories
- Interest description
- Include and exclude keywords
- Feed and email delivery settings
- Visibility and sharing settings
Create a project
- Start from chat on the homepage or dashboard.
- Describe your research focus.
- Review the generated proposal.
- Click Set up delivery and save.
Tune project relevance
Use these levers first:
- Interest description: one tight paragraph of what you care about
- Include keywords: terms that should increase relevance
- Exclude keywords: terms that should remove noise
- Include adjacent papers: include related but non-direct matches
Start narrow. Add broader terms only after you confirm quality.
Manage project settings
From the project page, you can:
- Edit project details
- Edit delivery settings
- Choose Daily, Weekly, or Pause for digest emails
- Toggle visibility (
private or public)
- Pause or resume the project
- Copy RSS/Atom URL
- Browse generated summaries
- Delete the project
Status behavior
- Active: project is discovering papers
- Paused: discovery and digest emails are paused
- Email paused: discovery continues but digest emails are not sent (set via Email frequency → Pause in delivery settings)
- Setup needed: project needs delivery completion
Delivery behavior
- Daily: Paperzilla emails you when new relevant papers are ready. This is not necessarily every calendar day.
- Weekly: Paperzilla keeps your feed current and still builds digests in the app, but sends one weekly email with the best-scoring papers from the past week.
- Pause: Paperzilla continues discovery and keeps your feed available, but sends no digest emails.
Weekly delivery uses the weekday and time you choose in delivery settings, based on your Preferred time zone in Account settings.
Private vs public
- Projects are private by default.
- Public projects can be shared and listed on public pages.
- You can switch between private and public at any time.
See sharing and visibility.