# Kortex for scientists: NotebookLM for R&D and pharma > How industry scientists use Kortex with Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM): a notebook per program for papers, preprints, patents and guidance, cited answers. https://www.kortex-notebooklm.com/use-cases/scientists 1. [Use cases](/use-cases) 2. Scientists in industry R&D # Keep the papers for each program in one place. Kortex keeps the papers, preprints, patents and regulatory guidance for each R&D program in its own Gemini Notebook, labelled by type and searchable across programs. [Add to Chrome](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kortex/hdapplggdhndkblofffknpmnnnnbncbn) [See plans and pricing](/#pricing) 100,000+ users, rated 4.5 in [410 Chrome Web Store ratings](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kortex/hdapplggdhndkblofffknpmnnnnbncbn/reviews). An example Workspace with a notebook per program, and a Perplexity review search just saved to one. ## How do scientists in industry use Kortex? Scientists in industry R&D and pharma use Kortex, a Chrome extension for Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM), to keep a notebook per program with papers, preprints, patents and regulatory guidance, labelled by type and searchable across programs. They route preprints by domain, compare programs’ notebooks, and follow their company’s policy on confidential data. ### Workflows on this page 1. [A notebook per program](#program-notebook) 2. [Sort new preprints into notebooks](#preprints) 3. [Map a patent or competitor landscape](#landscape) 4. [Give your computational team access](#mcp) ## Confidential and unpublished data Kortex sends what you import to Gemini Notebook in your own Google account; Kortex itself doesn’t keep your chats or the contents of your sources. Follow your company’s policy on confidential, unpublished and IP-sensitive material before adding internal reports or results. We make no claim that Kortex is suitable for regulated records. ## Where R&D reading piles up Keeping up is part of the job. Kortex handles the filing. - **New preprints land faster than you can file them.** A Domain Router rule sends links from bioRxiv or arXiv to the program’s inbox notebook as you import them. - **Papers, patents and guidance blur together in one notebook.** Tag every source by type, like Paper, Patent, Guidance or Method, and filter the notebook down to one kind. - **Two programs overlap and nobody knows which papers they share.** Compare two notebooks to see the sources both share and the ones only one has, and copy across what’s missing. - **The guidance you need is spread over a hundred pages of a regulator’s site.** Crawl the guidance pages into a notebook, to the depth you choose. - **Your computational colleagues want the literature in their own tools.** Kortex MCP lets Claude, Cursor or other MCP clients search and ask your notebooks, with citations. ## Four workflows for a program Built around published literature. Internal data follows your company’s policy. ### A notebook per program Everything published on a program, labelled by type. 1. Create a notebook per program and file them in a Programs collection. 2. Add the key papers as PDFs in Gemini Notebook, and highlight-and-send passages from patents and guidance pages. 3. Tag each source by type: Paper, Patent, Guidance or Method. 4. Highlight the sources that matter most and add a note to each. Jazz Music ![A Jazz Music notebook in the Kortex Workspace. Each source, such as Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker on Wikipedia, carries tags like Person, Concept and Secondary Source.](/media/tour/tour-labels-1200.webp) A real notebook in the Kortex Workspace, with tags on each source. ### Sort new preprints into notebooks An inbox of new preprints, triaged once a week. 1. Add a Domain Router rule so links from biorxiv.org go to the Preprint inbox notebook. 2. Or import a journal’s or preprint server’s latest posts from its RSS feed. 3. Each week, ask the inbox which preprints matter for each program, with citations. 4. Move the ones you keep into the program’s notebook from the Sources table. ### Map a patent or competitor landscape A cited overview of who is doing what. 1. Highlight and send the claims and abstracts that matter from patent pages, with links kept. 2. Send your Perplexity or ChatGPT landscape research to the same notebook. 3. Generate a briefing doc or a mind map, and check each point against its cited source. 4. Compare the landscape with another program’s notebook to find the overlap. ### Give your computational team access The literature, queryable from the tools they already use. 1. Connect Kortex MCP to Claude, Cursor or another MCP client. 2. Ask: “Using my Program KX-12 notebook, summarise what’s known about off-target effects and cite the sources.” 3. Calls run through your own Chrome extension, which holds your Google session. See [the MCP docs](/docs/mcp-server). ## What reviewers say about these features Quoted word for word and linked to where they were posted. Reviewers don’t say what they do for a living, so we picked reviews about the features on this page. > “Kortex turns NotebookLM into an actual knowledge base instead of a fancy note dump. Highlighting text from any webpage and sending it straight in feels borderline magical.” [Suhani, on Chrome Web Store](https://chromewebstore.google.com/reviews/75dc6eaf-f296-4002-9b41-af0bc4d24823) ## Prompts, tools and reading ### Prompts to copy - [Literature review synthesis](/prompts/literature-review) - [Research paper breakdown](/prompts/research-paper) - [Summary you can act on](/prompts/summarize) ### Free tools - [Research prompt builder](/tools/research-prompt-builder) - [Knowledge base health check](/tools/knowledge-base-health) ### Further reading - [How to Use Gemini Notebook for Research](/blog/notebooklm-for-research) - [Using Deep Research in Gemini Notebook](/blog/gemini-notebook-deep-research) - [How to Use Zotero with Gemini Notebook](/blog/gemini-notebook-zotero) - [Gemini Notebook MCP Server: 2026 Guide](/blog/notebooklm-mcp) - [Does Gemini Notebook Hallucinate? How to Check](/blog/does-gemini-notebook-hallucinate) ## What industry scientists ask Something we missed? [Ask us](#contact). ### Can I add unpublished results? Only if your company’s policy allows it. Kortex sends what you import to Gemini Notebook in your own Google account and doesn’t keep the contents of your sources, so your company’s rules on confidential and IP-sensitive data decide what goes in. ### Does Kortex connect to PubMed or patent databases? No direct integration. Highlight and send from any page you can read, import links in bulk, or add PDFs in Gemini Notebook. ### How does Domain Router work? You add a rule like “links from biorxiv.org go to Preprint inbox”. When you send or import a link from that domain, it goes to the notebook you chose. ### How is this different from the researchers page? Same toolkit, pointed at industry work: programs instead of a thesis, patents and regulatory guidance next to papers, and stricter rules on confidential data. The [researchers page](/use-cases/researchers) covers academic workflows. ## Start with your current program. Add Kortex to Chrome and send the next paper or preprint to a program notebook. [Add to Chrome](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kortex/hdapplggdhndkblofffknpmnnnnbncbn) [See plans and pricing](/#pricing) 100,000+ users, rated 4.5 on the Chrome Web Store. ## More like this, and other ways people use Kortex - [Researchers and academics](/use-cases/researchers) - [Students](/use-cases/students) - [Developers](/use-cases/developers) - [Professionals](/use-cases/professionals) - [Lawyers and legal teams](/use-cases/lawyers) - [Marketers](/use-cases/marketers) - [All 19 use cases](/use-cases)