The Research Panel by node

The Research Panel is a sidebar in the writing editor where you can organize all the material that informs your writing — notes, web links, images, PDFs, audio files, video links, and web clippings. Click **Research** in the editor toolbar to open it. Your research is organized into folders that you create and name. Each folder holds items of any type. You can drag and drop files directly into the panel. **What you can add:** - **Notes** — freeform text written directly in the panel - **Web links** — URLs with automatic title and description fetching - **Web clips** — saved excerpts from web pages - **Images** — photos, sketches, reference images - **PDFs** — documents, papers, reference material - **Audio** — recordings, interviews, sound references - **Video links** — YouTube, Vimeo, and other video URLs Each item shows a compact preview in the sidebar. Click **View fullscreen** to open any item in a large overlay for comfortable reading or viewing. Double-click an item for the same effect. Videos, PDFs, and web clips all have dedicated fullscreen viewers. You can tag items for organization, and use the search bar to find items across all folders. Items can reference each other using [[wikilinks]] — type double brackets and the name of another item to create a link between them. Your research content (files, images, audio) is stored locally in your browser using IndexedDB. Only the metadata (titles, tags, folder structure) is saved on the server. This means your research files stay on your device and are not uploaded to CivNode's servers. Use **Export** to back up your entire research collection as a JSON file, and **Restore** to bring it back from a backup.