Organize research sources as a team, with the context attached

Context is the thing you lose first

Six weeks later, a saved URL tells you nothing about why it mattered. Write the claim it supports, the figure you needed or the page number into its note, and that becomes the thing you search on, for you and for everyone else on the project.

• Nested folders per project, topic and sub-topic
• A note on any link capturing why you saved it
• Highlights: several saved passages on one source
• Tags by source type, argument and status
• Search across titles, URLs, descriptions, notes and page text

How to organize research sources so a team can use them

A structure that holds up over a long project: one folder per project, a subfolder per research question or chapter, and a small, fixed set of tags that describe the source rather than the topic. Agree a note format so anyone can scan it: the claim, where in the source it appears, and how reliable it is. Save a view such as “to-read, tagged dataset” as a shared smart folder so the whole team works from the same queue.

• Source type: paper, report, dataset, interview, news, primary source
• Status: to-read, read, cited, rejected
• Note: claim · location in source · reliability
• Owner and review date for sources that change, such as live datasets

Search that reaches inside the page

Linkbry captures the readable text of saved HTML pages in the background and shows it in a reader view. Search matches that text too, ranked below title, URL and description matches, so a phrase you half-remember from an article can still find it. PDFs and other file types aren’t captured; for those, your note is what search sees.

Shared across the team

Everyone in the workspace sees the same library, so a source one person found is available to the rest. Reviewers and stakeholders can be invited as free viewers, owners can restrict sensitive folders to named members, and a reading list can be published as a read-only page anyone can open.

Linkbry and your citation manager

Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote manage citations: bibliographic metadata, PDFs and formatted references. Linkbry doesn’t do any of that. What it does better is the web side of research (articles, reports, datasets and tools), shared across a team with context attached and one link to hand to someone outside it. Many researchers use both.

Not an archive

Linkbry stores links, your notes and the readable text of web pages, not screenshots or full copies. Its link checker flags sources that break or move; for sources that might disappear, upload a copy or use an archiving tool alongside it.