AnswerThis Full Guide: Research Assistant That Actually Supports You From Start To Finish

If you’ve ever wished you could handle every part of your research workflow in one place, from generating full literature reviews to uncovering research gaps, managing citations, organising papers, editing drafts, and even building custom AI tools, AnswerThis is exactly what you’ve been waiting for.

In this video, I walk you through the new AnswerThis update and show how it completely transforms the research process. You’ll see how to move from a single question or idea to a polished, citation-ready research output without switching tabs, juggling platforms, or wasting hours digging through papers manually. We explore how AnswerThis generates structured literature reviews, finds relevant studies across leading academic databases, extracts research gaps and key insights, and builds dynamic tables that give you a full picture of your field in minutes. I’ll show you how the notebook and AI writing tools help you refine your draft, expand your arguments, and format everything with clean citations while keeping your voice intact. You’ll also see how to analyse trends through bibliometric tools, visualise influence with citation maps, create flowcharts and diagrams on the fly, manage libraries for different projects, collaborate with peers, and even design your own AI research agent trained on your preferred sources. Whether you’re publishing academically, writing a dissertation, exploring a new topic, or simply trying to work smarter, this walkthrough will give you a complete understanding of what’s possible, and why AnswerThis has become one of the most powerful research platforms available today. Get started for free today - https://answerthis.io Timestamps 00:00 - Getting started with AnswerThis and the main canvas 01:10 - Building a literature review and using advanced filters 04:30 - Working with the papers table, research gaps, and exports 07:38 - Bibliometric analysis, chat with papers, and citation maps 11:28 - Follow up questions, Quick Q and A, and deeper insights 12:08 - Notebook, full notebook mode, and AI assisted editing 17:02 - Libraries, imports, and managing your own sources 20:22 - Diagrams, agents, and creating your own research tools