# Research Workbench guide > How to use the Research Workbench on your computer and in the cloud, and the browser extension that saves papers into it. Part of Research Workbench: https://researchworkbench.space/llms.txt ## Getting started - [Welcome to Research Workbench](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/welcome): What the workbench is, what it is for, and how this guide is organised. - [Installing the workbench](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/installing): Downloading the desktop workbench for Windows, macOS or Linux, opening it the first time, and where it keeps your files. - [Your first steps](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/first-steps): The start page, the sections in the top bar, and a ten-minute path from an empty vault to a searchable project. ## Projects and reading - [Projects](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/projects): Creating a project from a template, the project page, project settings, and deleting projects. - [Folders and sensitivity labels](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/folders-and-labels): Making, moving and colouring folders, and how sensitivity labels decide which AI models may read a document. - [Adding material](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/adding-material): Adding files, whole folders, links, pasted text and repositories to a folder, and what happens while they are read. - [Working with a folder's documents](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/document-list): Filtering, sorting and tagging documents, the Details drawer, moving and removing documents, and the picture wall. - [Reading documents](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/reading-documents): The reader, the working copy, highlights and notes, figures, and the references and links a document holds. - [References and Zotero](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/references-and-zotero): Keeping a project's reference list, importing BibTeX and RIS, linking files to works, and bringing in Zotero collections. - [Repositories](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/repositories): Bringing in a GitHub repository at one commit, browsing and searching its code, and keeping up with newer commits. ## Search and AI - [Searching](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/searching): Searching every project by words and by meaning, reading the results, and searching code. - [Answers from your papers](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/answers-from-your-papers): Asking a question and getting an answer written only from the passages in your own papers, with each one cited. - [Models and keys](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/models-and-keys): Running models on your computer with Ollama, using hosted models with your own key, choosing a model per job, and recording prices. - [Summaries](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/summaries): Summarising a document, finding what it is about, sharpening a summary with a critique loop, and editing it yourself. ## Evidence and experiments - [Evidence and activity](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/evidence-and-activity): The record of every AI call, kept before it is asked and never changed, and what the workbench is doing in the background. - [Experiments and runs](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/experiments-and-runs): Comparing models on the same work with a cost cap, reading a run step by step, replaying it, and exporting a replication package. - [Approvals](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/approvals): What the workbench will not do without you, how a request is scored for risk, and how to let it or refuse it. - [Writing code](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/writing-code): Having a model write code with tests, checked and retried until the tests pass, and running it safely in a sandbox. ## Writing papers - [Writing a paper](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/papers): Starting a paper, writing it a section at a time, Word papers, and exporting drafts. - [Citations](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/citations): Citing references and notes as you write, the citation styles, and how the reference list is made. - [Versions and review](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/versions-and-review): Sealing a version, comparing versions, checking in Word files, and sending a version to reviewers who need nothing installed. - [Claim checks](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/claim-checks): Checking each sentence that cites a source against that source, and recording whether you agree. - [Paper settings](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/paper-settings): A paper's title and summary, deadlines, length limit, citation style, statistics and footer. ## Planning and people - [Deadlines and the calendar](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/deadlines-and-calendar): Adding deadlines to projects and papers, the month, week and agenda views, and putting them in Outlook or on your phone. - [Reminders](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/reminders): The reminders strip, notifications on your computer, and reminder e-mails from the cloud. - [People and mailings](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/people-and-mailings): The address book, what each person agreed to, project lists, importing and exporting contacts, and sending a paper to a list. ## Settings - [Settings](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/settings): Every tab of the Settings page: This computer, Layout, Imports, Searching, Writing and Sync. - [Updates and starting afresh](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/updates-and-starting-afresh): How the workbench keeps itself up to date, and how to empty the vault and start again. ## Cloud and sync - [The cloud workbench](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/cloud-workbench): Getting access to the workbench in your browser, signing in, your account page, what the cloud does differently, and erasing your workspace. - [Sync](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/sync): Linking a computer to the cloud, choosing which projects sync and how, what travels, and settling changes made in both places. ## Browser extension - [The browser extension](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/browser-extension): Installing the extension in Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari, saving pages and PDFs into a project, and what happens while the workbench is closed. ## Help - [Troubleshooting and questions](https://researchworkbench.space/docs/research-workbench/troubleshooting): What to do when something does not work, and answers to common questions.