Three steps. One continuous canvas.
Pilgrim does not replace your thinking. It does the organizational work that currently crowds it out: gather, synthesize, then draft. All in the same place, all grounded to your actual sources.
Gather your sources
Add PDFs, paste URLs, or drop in plain text. Pilgrim indexes the full content, not just a title and URL. It extracts the citation metadata automatically so you do not have to type author, year, and publication by hand every time.
- PDFs: upload directly, full text indexed
- URLs: paste once, Pilgrim fetches and stores
- Notes: freeform text treated as a source with source attribution
- Metadata extracted automatically: author, year, title, venue
See where your sources converge and conflict
Ask a question across all your sources. The synthesis view shows you how each source responds, where they agree, where they disagree, and where the literature falls silent. This is what no search bar can tell you.
- Ask any question, Pilgrim queries all sources at once
- Agreements and conflicts surfaced side by side
- Gaps in the literature highlighted explicitly
- Every claim traces back to a specific passage and source
Write with every claim already grounded
The draft canvas sits next to your synthesis. When you write a claim, Pilgrim links it to the passage it came from. No more re-reading your notes to remember what pointed where. The attribution is there from the first sentence.
- Write in a full-screen editor or split view
- Inline citation references generated automatically
- Export with formatted citations in APA, MLA, or Chicago
- Revision history for every draft
The primary mechanism identified across sources is the expansion of substantive freedoms1, which both Sen and Nussbaum treat as ends in themselves rather than means2.
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Free to start. Works with sources you already have. No configuration required.