Research Quote Capture

About

Press Ctrl+Shift+Q on any web page. The selected text saves with the URL, page title, capture timestamp, and (for academic pages) the DOI and citation metadata. Your library lives in a private, local IndexedDB with full-text search. Pro users export to BibTeX, CSV, JSON, or Markdown — straight into Zotero, LaTeX, Excel, or Obsidian.

Built for graduate students writing literature reviews.

A typical PhD reads 200+ papers across the program and ends up quoting 60–80 sentences in the dissertation. The bottleneck isn't reading — it's the work between reading and citing. Lost URLs. Scattered formats. Retyped citations. The night-before-submission scramble. Research Quote Capture closes that gap with one keystroke.


HOW IT WORKS

1. Select text on any web page — arXiv, Nature, PubMed, a blog post, anything.
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+Q (Cmd+Shift+Q on Mac).
3. The quote saves locally with URL, title, timestamp, and DOI.
4. Open the toolbar popup anytime to search, browse, edit, or export.


WHAT'S FREE FOREVER

- Unlimited capture from any web page
- Full-text search across your entire library
- Edit DOIs and quote metadata
- Browse, organize, review
- Multi-select for bulk operations
- Import from a JSON backup


WHAT PRO ADDS (7-day trial — no card required)

- Automatic citation enrichment via OpenAlex: authors, year, journal, publication date — populated from the DOI without you typing a thing.
- Export to BibTeX — each quote becomes a @article entry; drop the .bib straight into your LaTeX manuscript and cite by key, or import into Zotero / Mendeley / JabRef.
- Export to CSV — eleven columns covering text, source, date, DOI, and citation metadata. Open in Excel, Google Sheets, pandas, or R for analysis.
- Export to JSON — the lossless backup format. Save monthly to Dropbox; restore on a new machine via the in-popup Import panel.
- Export to Markdown — each quote becomes a > blockquote with clickable DOI link. Paste into Obsidian, Logseq, Notion, or your manuscript draft.


THE 7-DAY TRIAL IS INDEPENDENT OF PAYMENT

No card. No Stripe page. No payment funnel during the trial. Click "Start 7-day trial" inside the extension popup; Pro features unlock immediately for 7 days. Nothing auto-charges because nothing was ever entered. If Pro saved you time, subscribe at the end. If not, the extension stays free forever for capture, browse, and search.


PRIVACY — DESIGNED-IN, NOT BOLTED-ON

- Your selected text never leaves your computer. Quotes live in your browser's IndexedDB. Local only.
- No AI runtime. No inference. No machine learning. Plain regex and DOM APIs.
- Scoped permissions: activeTab only. The extension cannot read any tab unless you press the shortcut on it.
- License key only is sent to our Cloudflare Worker for validation.
- For Pro users on academic pages, only the DOI string is sent to OpenAlex (a public, free academic-citation API operated by OurResearch) — never the selected text, never the URL, never the page title.
- No tracking, no analytics, no telemetry inside the extension.

Privacy policy: https://www.gradsummit.com/privacy/


PRICING (when you're ready to subscribe)

- Monthly: $5/mo
- Annual: $39/yr (save $21)
- 7-day free trial — no card required
- Cancel anytime via the in-extension Manage Subscription link


WHO IT'S FOR

- STEM graduate students writing in LaTeX (BibTeX export drops into your .bib alongside other references)
- Humanities researchers drafting in Word or Google Docs (Markdown export is the synthesis layer)
- Systematic reviewers running PRISMA-style screens (CSV export is the queryable database)
- Anyone privacy-conscious who doesn't want their reading list on a vendor's server (JSON backup is the offline portability path)


SUPPORT

- Landing page: https://www.gradsummit.com/tools/research-quote-capture/
- Help & usage guide: https://www.gradsummit.com/tools/research-quote-capture/troubleshooting/
- Support email: [email protected]