Helper Systems: kOS

kOS offers a range of features to improve research workflows. It introduces a new folder concept with instant access to table of contents, document thumbnails, word cloud, and indexes showing word occurrences. Users can gain context and insight through graphical displays of words, phrases, and concepts. The app makes sharing excerpts seamless by automatically including citations and linking back to the kOS database. It also saves time by allowing exploration of multiple PDF sets at once. Privacy is ensured as kOS does not use servers and does not require internet access.

kOS is designed for students and researchers who want to use AI tools ethically in their research. It provides proof of work by letting users build presentations that showcase the research process. The app is useful for organizing and exploring PDF documents, creating citations, and generating slide presentations from playlists of documents. It also supports educational institutions by offering a platform that ensures academic integrity.

kOS offers a free version with basic features such as gathering and indexing PDF documents in kBases, exploring content via table of contents, page thumbnails, and word cloud, and asking the AI general web questions. Premium features are available with a free 6-month trial, then a $9.99 monthly subscription. Premium features include asking AI about any document, reading summaries, using Phrase Builder™, discovering common words, excluding irrelevant words, highlighting and annotating, creating multi-part excerpts, searching and sharing notes, zooming on highlights in presentations, editing tables of contents, embedding documents, exporting lists to CSV, archiving kBases, and customizing the app.