---
name: literature-review
description: "What your saved pages, highlights and notes say about a topic, by theme"
metadata:
  minda-template: "1"
  minda-trigger: "lit-review"
  minda-include-page: "false"
  minda-mode: "research"
  minda-link: "https://mindasip.com/skills/literature-review/"
---

# Literature review

What your saved pages, highlights and notes say about a topic, by theme

## How to use

In Minda, type /lit-review in the AI chat, then what you want.
It runs as a research report that cites its sources.
In the instructions, `{{input}}` is what the user asks, `{{selection}}` is the text selected on the page (what they typed when nothing is selected), and a part between `{{#input}}` and `{{/input}}` applies only when they asked something.
Add it to Minda: https://mindasip.com/skills/literature-review/

## Instructions

Write a literature review on {{#input}}{{input}}{{/input}}{{^input}}the topic of the page on screen (read it first){{/input}} from what I have saved: search my saved pages, highlights and notes first, and use the web only to fill gaps (say which sources came from the web).
Group the sources by theme or school of thought. For each theme: the main claims, the evidence behind them, and who agrees or disagrees.
Add a table of the key sources: author or site, year, kind of source or method, main finding. End with the gaps that a new study or article could fill.