AI AGENTS

Weekly Literature Scan into a Notion Knowledge Base

On a weekly schedule an agent searches academic and web sources for new work on your tracked topics, deduplicates against your knowledge base.

CategoryAI Agents
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerschedule
Steps6
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerWeekly schedule fires
  • ActionRead tracked topics from Notion configNotionNotion
  • ActionSearch recent sources per topic (Exa)Exa
  • LogicDedupe against existing knowledge-base entries
  • ActionWrite structured cited summaries (OpenAI)OpenAI
  • OutputFile new pages in Notion knowledge baseNotionNotion

What it does

Maintains a living literature review. Each week the agent searches the web and academic sources for new papers, reports, and articles on the topics your team tracks, summarizes each with a citation, and files them as structured pages in a Notion knowledge base, skipping anything already captured.

When to use it

When a research, policy, or product team needs to stay current on a defined set of topics and wants a curated, deduplicated, cited archive rather than a noisy feed.

How it works

  1. 1A weekly scheduled trigger fires.
  2. 2The agent reads the list of tracked topics from a Notion config page.
  3. 3Exa runs neural searches for recent sources on each topic.
  4. 4A logic step dedupes results against existing entries in the Notion database by title and URL.
  5. 5OpenAI writes a structured summary for each new source: key finding, method, and relevance, with citation.
  6. 6Each summary is created as a new page in the Notion knowledge base.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect NotionPages, databases, comments.
  2. 2
    Connect ExaNeural search across the web.
  3. 3
    Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
  4. 4
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  5. 5
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  6. 6
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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