Read with context
Aldachi Research Team · 2025
Aldachi reading notes · 1–4
Abstract
A focused reading session keeps the important passages close to the paper they came from. Select a passage, highlight it, and keep its page and source visible as your thinking develops.
1. Introduction
Reading a scientific paper produces evidence: a specific passage that supports, questions or extends a research idea. In a conventional workflow that evidence lives only inside a reading session — a highlight in a viewer, a quote in a note, a sentence in a draft.
This document argues that evidence should be a first-class research object. A passage is identified by its paper, its page and its exact text, and it can be selected, highlighted, cited and connected to other passages while keeping that provenance intact.
2. What a passage is
A passage is a bounded piece of scientific text. It has a stable location inside a paper — the page it appears on and its position within that page — and it can be referenced by that location.
Because the passage keeps its provenance, a later reader can always return to the source and verify the claim for themselves. Nothing about the connection is hidden behind an opaque summary.
3. Selection is the start of the workflow
The workflow starts with selection. The reader marks the exact text that matters; the system stores the text together with its paper and page reference. That selection can then be highlighted, copied as a citation, sent to a note, or connected to a passage in another paper.
The critical property is that selection does not move the evidence into a separate system where the source is lost. The source reference travels with the passage everywhere it goes.