A short list of new papers every morning. You keep the ones that matter.
Free setup prompt. Paste it into your AI assistant. It interviews you, builds the digest in a folder on your computer, tunes it on today's real papers, and sets it to run every weekday morning. About 20 minutes.
Building the whole personal knowledge base? This digest is step 3 of 4. Start at the beginning.
Each morning it searches PubMed for new papers on the 5 to 10 topics you choose, skips anything you've already seen, and ranks the rest: strongest evidence first, then relevance to your own projects, then your triage rules, the ones only someone in your field would know. You see the top 5 (or however many you pick), plus how many it found and ruled out. If nothing clears the bar, it says so. It doesn't pad.
Each digest is saved as a web page in your briefs folder, one per day. Every paper links to PubMed. Everything it screened out sits in a collapsed list at the bottom, so you can check its judgment.
Reply keep 2, or keep 2 because it changes how I counsel patients. It writes a file for that paper in your kept folder with a summary, a topic tag, and links to related papers you've already kept. Your reason goes in, in your words, only if you give one.
An article a colleague sent, a PDF from a meeting: drop it in your inbox folder. The next morning's run files it the same way and lists it in the digest.
Any assistant that can read and save files in a folder on your computer or cloud drive: the Claude desktop app, ChatGPT, or Microsoft Copilot. The prompt starts by checking what yours can actually do, and tells you plainly.
About ten short files about your role, projects and goals, so the digest knows what matters to you. Use the Context Portfolio Builder from AIDB Labs and The AI Daily Brief, about an hour. Without it, the setup prompt asks a few extra questions instead.
It asks where your folder is. If you don't have one yet, it helps you make one, or download a ready-made folder.
Your topics, your triage rules, journals you never want to miss, how many papers a day, and when it should run. About six turns of plain conversation. It shows you the plan and waits for your "go".
It runs once, right then, and walks through its picks with you. Tell it what shouldn't be there and what it missed. It sharpens your rules and runs again until the list looks like yours. Then it has you keep one paper and file one inbox item, so you see both work.
It reads the schedule back to you in one sentence. If your assistant can't run on a schedule, it gives you one line to paste each morning instead.
Copy this whole thing into a new chat, or download it.
Nothing beyond your AI assistant. Running every morning without you depends on whether your assistant and your plan can run scheduled tasks with access to your files. Check yours. If not, paste one line each morning and it does the same thing.
A small file in your briefs folder, seen.txt, lists the ID of every paper it has shown you. The last thing each run does is add today's papers, so a run that breaks halfway never marks anything as seen. Lines older than two weeks are deleted automatically, because the search never looks back that far.
Yes. Setup saves your filled-in daily prompt as my-daily-digest-prompt.txt in your folder. Open it in any text editor and change it, or ask your assistant to change it for you. The next run uses the new version.
It's told never to invent a citation, PMID, DOI or finding, and to drop any paper it can't tie to a real PubMed or DOI record. Still, check before you cite anything. Every paper in the digest links to its source so you can.
Searches go to PubMed, the same as any literature search. Reading, ranking and summarizing happen in your AI assistant, under its terms. Your digests, kept papers and settings are plain files in your own folder. (StatUp itself uses standard Google Analytics for page views.)
It works for any field with a literature. The interview leans clinical, but tell it your field and it adapts.
I'm Marissa Famularo, DO, a vascular surgeon and health data scientist. I built this for my own mornings first. If you set it up and want to compare notes, message me on LinkedIn.