Hi everyone —
I recently updated to EndNote 2025 and am exploring how the new AI features are transforming my research process. Specifically, AI reshaping of literature review tools has been a game-changer. The Key Takeaway feature automatically pulls out core insights from papers, saving me hours I used to spend reading each PDF manually. The “Cite from PDF” tool then lets me insert quotes with proper citations in one click — super handy!
I’m curious: how are others experiencing this shift? Has anyone noticed any trade‑offs in accuracy or context when relying on those AI‑generated summaries? And for those who’ve tried the upcoming generative AI research assistant: does chatting with full‑text documents genuinely speed up discovery?
Would love your honest experiences — tips, limitations, or best practices as everyone navigates this new “AI reshaping” era in reference management!
Cheers,
Hello, this is my assessment. Note my comments are not meant to be harsh…
I read that the new Endnote 2025 had Ai capability for summarizing pdf journal articles, which led me to purchase the software. After looking at the Ai feature, I was very disappointed. The reason being the summary is extremely over simplified and not constructive for scientific R&D work. For example, there does not appear to be a place for me to enter a search query to get the Ai to find the information I am looking for in a paper. An extremely good feature would be to use an Ai interactive search capability that could take my search criteria and then scan one paper or all of the papers in my endnote library at the same time and then return results, that would be a significant advantage and highly valuable feature for R&D work. Note, this is not about using Ai to write a paper for me, it is about finding the relevant information and paper that is relevant to the manuscript I am working on. This would significantly enhance the quality of our papers, and make Endnote a powerful tool many researchers would look to use! This is my experience with the new software. 
Note this could be done using other Ai models online, but there is a copyright issue with uploading a research paper. So, any Ai work in Endnote would need to work only locally and not allow any training or public access to the non-open source papers. FYI