How it works

From a question to a published paper, without losing the thread.

Five steps, one continuous record. Every protocol keeps its literature, every result keeps its protocol, and every claim in your manuscript can be traced back to the day you ran it.

The research cycle

One project, start to finish

Pick a step to see the screen you'd actually be looking at.

Start from the literature

Ask a research question in plain language. Notes9 searches PubMed, Europe PMC and OpenAlex, summarises what it finds, and saves the papers that matter into your library, with the PDFs attached.

Notes9 literature search showing an AI overview above cited results
Why it compounds

The connections are the product

Each step above writes a link, not just a record. After a few months those links are a map of how your lab actually reached its conclusions, and it is what Catalyst reads when you ask it a question.

The Notes9 research map showing projects, experiments, notes, papers and literature connected as a graph

Answers you can check

Catalyst cites the note, paper or experiment behind every claim, so you can open the source instead of trusting the summary.

Decisions that survive turnover

The reasoning behind a switched construct or a rejected condition stays attached to the work, not in someone's departed memory.

Write-ups that assemble themselves

By the time you draft, the methods, figures and references are already linked to the experiments they came from.

Set it up around your own research

Answer three questions and Notes9 sets up a workspace matched to your field, with a sample project you can pull apart to see how it fits together.