Protolyst is a web‑based workspace that lets researchers, academics, and students capture content from PDFs, PPTs, and DOCs, break it into modular "Atoms" and link them into a personal knowledge graph. The platform supports private and collaborative workspaces, encrypted GDPR‑compliant storage, and export to PDF, CSV, or DOC, with free and paid subscription tiers.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Researchers, academics, and students often struggle to manage and retrieve large volumes of information from PDFs, presentations, and documents, leading to inefficient note‑taking, duplicated effort, and difficulty linking related ideas.
Solution
Protolyst offers a web‑based workspace that lets users capture content from PDFs, PPTs, and DOC files and break it into modular “Atoms” of knowledge. These atoms can be linked, organized into projects, and viewed in full‑screen lists, enabling a bottom‑up approach to building a personal knowledge base. The platform supports private and collaborative workspaces, with real‑time sharing, view‑only links, and guest access. All data are stored encrypted at rest and in transit, backed up on GDPR‑compliant servers, and can be exported as PDFs, CSVs, or DOCs. Users can start for free and scale to paid plans that add unlimited pages, multiple workspaces, team members, and advanced security features.
Target Audience
Primary users are researchers, graduate students, and academic professionals who need to organize large bodies of literature and collaborate on research projects.
Features
- Capture and import content from PDF, PPT, and DOC files, automatically creating searchable knowledge “Atoms”
- Link atoms across pages and projects to build a connected knowledge graph
- Private workspace with optional real‑time collaboration and view‑only sharing links
- Unlimited pages and atoms on paid tiers, with multiple workspaces and team member permissions
- Export functionality for pages in PDF, CSV, and DOC formats
- GDPR‑compliant data storage with encryption at rest and in transit
- Tiered subscription plans (Free, Pro, Team, Enterprise) with pricing from $10 to $20 per month per user