Kapsicum for Researchers & Academics
Trace any idea back to its source
You encountered a finding last month that's relevant now. Was it in a paper, a colleague's email, or a conference talk? Kapsicum captures everything you type, copy, and hear. When you need to trace an idea back, you search once.
Sound familiar?
Where did you read that?You remember a key statistic. You read it last week. PDF, browser tab, email from a collaborator, your own notes. It could be any of them. You'll spend an hour retracing your steps. Or you'll just look it up again from scratch.
Lab meetings disappearYour advisor makes a critical suggestion in the lab meeting. Nobody writes it down. By next week, everyone's working from a slightly different paraphrase.
Tools that don't talk to each otherZotero for references. Overleaf for drafts. Obsidian for notes. Your browser for reading. Four tools. No search crosses them.
How Kapsicum Helps
Universal SearchSearch a concept and find every place you've encountered it: notes, browser, LaTeX editor, email, meeting transcripts. One query, your entire research history.
Audio CaptureLab meetings, advisor calls, and conference talks transcribed with speaker labels. Searchable alongside your typed notes and copied text.
TimelineBrowse your research activity by day. What you read, wrote, and discussed, in chronological order. Reconstruct the chain of reasoning that led to a hypothesis.
Real Workflows
Literature review synthesisWeeks of reading across dozens of sources. Search any concept and see every paper, note, and conversation where it appeared. Connections you wouldn't have caught by memory.
Reconstructing a citationYou quoted a statistic in your draft but forgot the source. Search the number or the surrounding phrase. Kapsicum shows when and where you first encountered it: the app, the date, the full context.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Kapsicum capture text I copy from PDFs?
Everything you type, copy to clipboard, or dictate is captured, with timestamp and source app. Copy a passage from a PDF in Preview or your browser, and that text is searchable. Audio capture transcribes conference talks and recorded presentations too.
Can it transcribe a lab meeting with multiple speakers?
Full meeting, speaker labels, searchable by keyword or date. The transcript is ready when the meeting ends. No upload step, no post-processing wait.
Does it work with LaTeX editors, Zotero, and Obsidian?
Kapsicum captures text from any app with a text cursor. Overleaf, TeXShop, VS Code with LaTeX, Zotero's note fields, Obsidian, any browser-based tool. No plugins needed.
Where is my research data stored?
Locally on your Mac. AES-256 encrypted. Nothing transmitted to any server. Cloud transcription is opt-in with your own API keys. Your data never passes through our infrastructure.
