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- Limited daily AI usage
- Unlimited projects and documents
- 5 source uploads per project
- Citations, collaboration and export
The AI for your academic work
Skriptr is an AI research and writing platform that thinks with you, grounded in your own sources.
Research it, write it, actually understand it
Library
Documents
Eureka in the shower
Sources
Chen & Alvarez (2018)
Okafor (2019)
Andrade & Kim (2021)
Dubois (2022)
Whitaker (2023)
Eureka in the shower
Eureka in the Shower: Where Good Ideas Actually Come From
1. Introduction
2. Why the shower works
3. Engineering more of it
Agent
You do the thinking. Skriptr does the rest.
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Every citation opens the page it came from
Not just a plausible-looking reference
Eureka in the shower
2. Why the shower works
The shower offers three ingredients the desk never does: warmth, monotony, and nothing to prove . Attention loosens, the mind wanders, and unfinished problems quietly resolve: breaks filled with undemanding tasks produce more fresh ideas than breaks spent concentrating . The shower may not even be special: the same lift shows up in any break that asks nothing of you .
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Andrade & Kim (2021)
Three conditions for spontaneous thought · Diary study
Across four weeks of diaries, the productive episodes clustered in a small set of settings, and the settings share a structure. The episodes our diarists credited most reliably arrived in places that combine warmth, a monotonous task for the hands, and no audience: settings in which there is nothing to prove. The shower is the archetype. Desk sessions, by contrast, supplied focus in abundance and none of the other three, and produced the fewest reported episodes per hour of any setting in the sample.
Passage found on this page
Everything is traceable.
Different skills, for different needs
The same agent can map a field, teach it to you, or argue against your claim. Every skill works from the same library.
Learning Companion
I keep citing mind-wandering. Teach me what it actually is.
Teach it from what?
1
My library
The sources you already cite.
2
External research
Cast a wider net.
How do you want to learn it?
1
Guided tutoring
For novices.
2
Flashcards
A deck of terms.
3
Quiz me
Retrieval practice, graded.
4
Visual overview
The field, mapped.
5
Debate the open questions
Argue the unsettled parts.
6
Pull apart one paper’s argument
Close-read one paper.
One place instead of four
Pick a task. See who actually does it.
ChatGPT
Suggests papers from memory. Checking they exist is your job.
skriptr.
Finds real papers, checks what holds up, and imports the PDFs to your library.
A paper you understand and can defend, not one you have to explain.
Start free. Upgrade when the writing gets serious.
Everything you need to research, learn and write, in one place.
Pro
10
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Everything in Free, plus
- Extended monthly AI usage
- 100 source uploads per project
- Audio transcription and dictation
- Turn on pay-as-you-go extra usage
Ultra
30
per month
Everything in Pro, plus
- Highest monthly AI usage
- Early access to new features
Fair questions
The ones worth asking before you trust a tool with your degree.
Is using Skriptr cheating?
Your institution sets that line, and you should follow its policy. What Skriptr does is make your work showable: it asks what you want to argue before writing anything, every edit arrives as a tracked change you accept or undo, and every claim cites a page in a source you uploaded. You get full control over your paper.
This is exactly what I want my students to use, because then I know AI is being used correctly.
Will it just write my paper for me?
Not in one go, and that is the point. It agrees the angle with you, asks questions only you can answer, puts the outline in your document first, then drafts part by part with you. You end up with a finished paper and with the thinking that produced it.
Are the citations real?
Yes. Skriptr cites only from the sources in your own library, and every citation traces to the page it came from. Your reference list also builds itself from used citations automatically.
Can I work on a project with other people?
Yes. Invite people into a project as an admin, editor or viewer, and you write in the same document at the same time, with the same library.
What can I upload, and what can I export?
Bring in PDFs, DOCX, web pages, recordings, images and your own notes. Audio is transcribed on the way in on paid plans. If a draft already lives somewhere else you can import it from Word or Overleaf and carry on writing. On the way out: Word, PDF or Markdown, references intact.
What happens to the material I upload?
Your sources and drafts stay private to your project and are not used to train models. You can delete a source, or the whole project, whenever you like.
