synthpad · compare · vs Zotero
A researcher's corkboard for cross-model evidence
Built around LLM outputs, not journal PDFs.
What SYNTHPAD does
Cork-board layout. Paste from any LLM and watch the provenance badge appear in under 200 ms. Yarn links related cards. Markdown export preserves the model and the time of paste in footnotes.
Where Zotero falls short
Zotero is wonderful for citations and wrong for LLM transcripts.
The comparison is candid: Zotero is the right tool for many jobs. The cork-board is the right tool when the job is paste-detect-pin-link across four LLMs.