PaperTrail
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Semantic Search ranks papers by content relevance, not just keywords. Results are colored and sized by relevance.
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Welcome to PaperTrail
Explore 0 papers shared by your team across Slack. Each dot is a paper — similar papers cluster together by topic.
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🗺 4 views: Map, 3D, Table, Leaderboard
🔍 AI-powered paper search
📊 Filter by channel, topic, time
👤 Contributor profiles & stats
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