Getting started with the Paperpile Web App

Welcome to Paperpile 👋.

Once you have signed up at https://paperpile.com with your Google account and installed the Chrome extension, you are ready to go. Here is a quick intro to get you started.

If you already have a library from Mendeley, EndNote, or any other software, see our Migration Guides

Find and collect papers

First thing's first — you'll want to add some papers to your new library. Paperpile make this easy with three ways to find and add articles from the web:

• Click   to search online directly from Paperpile or upload PDFs from your hard drive.

  Tip: to quickly upload PDFs, just drag and drop from your file manager into the Paperpile window.

• Use your browser to search for articles on Google Scholar, PubMed or ArXiv and click the import buttons:
• Click the Paperpile button  in your browser toolbar to import from hundreds of supported publishers' sites. A green arrow appears on the button when you're viewing a supported site (For an example visit doi.org/10.1038/nature10530).

Get organized

Next, add some folders and labels to help keep things tidy. Click in the left panel to add a new folders and labels.

Drag a paper into a folder or on a label using the drag handle on the left side of the paper, or use the toolbar buttons to organize many papers at once:

Cite, copy, paste

You can quickly copy and paste formatted citations using the Cite button in the toolbar:

Choose between copying the plain citation string or the BibTeX data when you write in LaTeX/BibTeX.

What's next?

Where to go from here? You can learn about some of Paperpile's unique features in our other guides:

• Sync your files with Google Drive
• Getting started with Paperpile and Google Docs
• Sharing papers with colleagues