🧠 Profsistant — Your AI Research Kickoff Assistant

Profsistant is an intelligent assistant designed to help academic researchers — especially students — get started on research projects faster and more effectively. It helps you discover relevant papers, organize your reading, generate research gaps and ideas, and build a personalized reading plan.

📚 Turn scattered papers into a focused project.
🤖 Powered by Gemini, built with Streamlit.

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✨ Features

🔍 Paper Discovery & Summarization

• Enter a research topic and get top Google Scholar papers
• Automatically extract and display abstracts, links, and authors

📚 Reading Tracker

• Track progress: To Read, Reading, Done
• Add notes, sources, and custom tags to each paper
• Manually add your own papers too!

📊 Research Dashboard

• View charts showing reading progress and topic distribution
• Filter papers by label or source

📅 Personalized Planner

• Enter your availability
• Generate a research reading schedule
• Export it to a .ics calendar file

💡 Research Gap & Idea Generator

• Gemini analyzes your paper list
• Suggests research gaps, follow-up ideas, and mini-projects
• Add to a persistent, editable “Ideas List”

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🏗️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: Streamlit
• LLM: Gemini Pro (via Google Generative AI API)
• Charts: Plotly
• Calendar Export: Python ics library

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🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/profsistant.git
cd profsistant

2. Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Set your API key

Create a file: .streamlit/secrets.toml

GEMINI_API_KEY = "your-gemini-api-key-here"

4. Run the app

streamlit run Home.py

📁 Project Structure

Profsistant/
├── app.py                       # Search + summarize papers
├── pages/
│   ├── 1_ReadingList.py       # Reading list manager
│   ├── 2_Planner.py           # Planner + calendar export
│   ├── 3_Dashboard.py         # Stats and filters
│   └── 4_ResearchIdeas.py    # Gemini gap generator + ideas list
├── .streamlit/
│   └── secrets.toml              # API keys (never commit!)
└── README.md

💡 Why Use Profsistant?

Academic research is overwhelming — too many papers, too little structure. Profsistant bridges that gap by helping you:

• Stay focused on a goal

• Build a reading plan around your schedule

• Discover promising research directions faster

Whether you're starting a term paper, thesis, or capstone, Profsistant can help you take the first confident step.

🧪 Roadmap (Coming Soon)

• 🔍 PDF upload + summarizer

• 🔁 Notion export integration

• 🧠 Topic clustering + similarity view

*👥 Team mode for lab groups

🙌 Credits

Built with ❤️ by @Namslay26

🛡️ License MIT License. Feel free to fork and build on it!

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- A `requirements.txt` auto-generated from your code
- GitHub topics or description text
- A logo/banner for your project

Happy pushing to GitHub! 🚀