Track research progress | Distari guide

Open a project in the web app and go to Overview → Progress. This section brings goals, current paper counts and literature coverage into one place. The project overview also highlights overdue goals under Needs your attention. To inspect citation connections, open the Library’s graph view.

Overview’s Progress section. Research goals shows a milestone checklist with one of three steps done and two paper goals; Literature coverage groups the papers by Tags with read and to-read counts. — Goals sit beside coverage, so you can see what is left to read in each area.

Set goals

Select New goal in Overview’s Progress section, or open Project settings → Goals. Give the goal a title and choose what to track:

Goal type	How progress is counted
Papers added	Current papers in the project library
Papers summarized	Current papers with a completed summary
Papers read by the team	Current papers marked read by at least one active project member
Milestone checklist	Steps you add and check yourself

Set a positive whole-number target for a paper goal. Every goal can have an optional due date. An unfinished goal becomes Overdue after its due date; a finished goal moves into the collapsed Completed goals section. A checklist completes when it has at least one step and every step is checked.

You can edit or delete a goal, and add, rename, check, reorder or remove checklist steps. Members can view progress; changing goals requires project-edit permission. Archiving the project keeps its goals visible but pauses editing until restoration.

Counts use current, unarchived primary papers. A paper counts once even if it has several files or several teammates marked it read. Skimmed does not count as Read. Goal progress responds to library and reading changes.

Inspect coverage

Group papers by Topics, Subfields, Fields, Domains or Tags. An area shows how many papers you have, how many have been read by at least one active project member and how many remain to read. A paper can appear in several areas, so group totals do not have to equal the library total. Select an area to open the matching filtered library list; tag links can also be shared.

A Thin area has fewer than half as many papers as the largest area in that grouping, once the largest has at least three. It is a relative cue, not a quality score. Detected topic groups require paper topic metadata; papers without detected topics can still appear under Tags.

For a thin detected topic, Progress may show up to three papers from the project’s earlier Discover results, ranked by citation count. Papers already in the library or dismissed in Discover are excluded. Add follows the normal Discover import, permission and plan-usage rules. Progress itself does not run a new external search or use plan usage. If no cached suggestions fit, use Explore papers in this area to open Discover with the area as the search seed.