A deep research answer is worth as much as the tab where you read it. Then the chat scrolls, the sources you needed become bare links, and you will not open them again. Vortixy now treats a research report as an object you keep, and the sources panel as a notebook you can work in.
Research reports you can reopen
Ask for a deep investigation and the result is saved as a report you come back to. The list shows the title, the question you asked, the date, how many sources it used and its status. Open one and you get the full text with its sources attached, while the chat stays alive next to it.
From a report you can export everything as a markdown file, copy a link that reopens exactly that report, or delete it once the question is settled. The copied link points at that report, not at the generic view.
What gets saved is exactly what you read
The saved report is not a summary written afterwards. What lands in the list is the text you read in the chat, with the citation markers cleaned up and the sources sanitized the same way.
Two rules keep this honest. A report is saved only when the turn actually delivered research; an ordinary web search does not create one, because hundreds of answers are not reports. And the sources that travel with it are the real ones: a title and an https link, deduplicated, never an invented reference. If the search found nothing, the report says so.
A sources notebook, not a list of links
The panel under an answer is now a notebook where every source opens the fragment that was cited — the passage that backs the claim. You read it, copy it into your notes if you need it, and open the original when you want the whole page.
Above the entries you see how many sources were included and a small marker telling you where the evidence comes from: an official site, a scholarly source or the open web. It is a hint about origin, not a verdict on truth.
Export to RIS and BibTeX
Two buttons at the top of the notebook download your sources as RIS or BibTeX. Those are the formats reference managers read, so the file opens directly in Zotero, Mendeley or EndNote, where it becomes ordinary entries you can group, tag and cite.
Here is the limit worth knowing: the export carries what the search actually knows about each source — the title, the link and the quoted fragment. Authors, publisher, journal, year, pages and DOI travel only when the source itself carries them. A page that exposes nothing but a title and a link exports as a title and a link.
Bring your own references
The same panel imports references. Paste a RIS or BibTeX list, or pick a .ris or .bib file from your computer, and the entries are parsed for you to use: the importer counts them, shows the first and tells you honestly when the text is not a reference list.
Be clear about what this does not do. Imported references do not turn into a study plan, a summary or an argument on their own. They stay references, ready for you to use.
Frequently asked questions
Does every answer with a web search create a report?
No. A report is saved only when the turn delivered a real investigation; a plain search stays a normal answer in the chat.
What exactly ends up in the exported file?
One record per source, with the fields the source actually provided: title, link and quoted fragment always; authors, publisher, journal, year, pages or DOI only if the search found them.
Do imported references become a study plan?
No. They stay references. If you want a plan built around them, ask for one separately and bring the references along.
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