Two new capabilities for the agent this release, plus a refresh of how chats are found. The agent can now run code and hand you the result as a real file: a chart, a Word document, a spreadsheet, a quick analysis. Questions about figures, complex diagrams, scatter plots, gel images, dense tables, get much better answers. And chats are easier to come back to, with pinning, Cmd-K title search, and a URL per chat you can bookmark or share.

The agent can build files for you now

Ask for a chart from a dataset in your library, a Word document with your findings, a quick analysis, a spreadsheet, a LaTeX export. Each comes back as a file attached to the message, available on every plan as of May 15.

Much sharper answers on complex figures and tables

The agent handles complex visuals from your library much better now. Ask about something like a UMAP plot, a flow cytometry scatter, a gel image, a Western blot, or a dense data table from a paper, and the answer pulls from the specific colors, layouts, axis values, and marks in the figure. Table extraction and OCR-handling are tighter too, so scanned and OCR'd PDFs hand back cleaner structure for tables, printed page numbers, and figure captions.

Making chats easier to find

Three changes that work together. You can now pin any chat to the top of the sidebar from its dropdown menu. Cmd-K search now searches across all your chat titles, surfacing pinned chats by default and filtering live as you type. And every chat has its own URL: open a chat and the address bar updates with a link to that chat, so you can bookmark it, share it in Slack, or deep-link straight back into a thread from a note.

A handful of new touches this week: folder-level instructions for chat, in-app help, clickable cards for files and folders the agent acts on, and one-click connector setup from the chat input. Plus the usual long list of polish and fixes throughout the product.

Folder instructions

Each folder now has an Instructions tab in its settings. Whatever you put there is passed to chat whenever that folder is the active source. It's a clean way to set persistent rules ("always reply in Spanish", "cite in APA", "summarize before answering") for a specific research project without retyping them every message.

Ask Anara how to use Anara

Chat now knows the product. Ask things like "how do I import from Zotero?", "what's the difference between agent chat and ask chat?", or "how do I share a folder?" and Anara pulls directly from our help center to answer. No more bouncing out to support.anara.com to find the right article.

Jump to files and folders the agent works with

When the agent creates, moves, or otherwise acts on a file or folder during a chat, a clickable reference card now appears at the end of that message. One click takes you straight to it. Useful when you ask the agent to organize a literature review into a new folder, or take notes on a paper, and want to jump to what it just did.

Connect a connector from chat

Type "Notion", "Zotero", "Dropbox", or any other supported connector into the chat input and a pill appears above the composer to connect it in one click. Useful when you realize mid-question that you wanted Anara to pull from a tool you haven't hooked up yet.

Since Anara 3.0 shipped two weeks ago, we've been heads down on polish. This update covers the work we didn't have room to mention in the 3.0 post: a rebuilt note editor, a simpler chat input, the Related tab being retired, and a long list of fixes.

A rebuilt note editor

Notes are now powered by a new editor built from the ground up to work alongside Anara. The biggest day-one win is performance: long notes (10,000+ words) open immediately and stay smooth as they grow. AI edits stream in without the typing issues you used to see on long documents.

A few other things changed along with it. Equations get a dedicated input popover where you type LaTeX and see the rendered formula update as you go. Math is now parsed only inside $$ ... $$, so a single $ in a sentence stops getting silently turned into broken LaTeX. Toggles, callouts, and tables of contents persist correctly when you reload a note. Pastes from Word strip the heavy styling so your note keeps its own look. And familiar shortcuts like Cmd+Shift+8 for bullet lists work again.

@web replaces @search papers

Chat input source settings used to have separate @web and @search papers toggles, which was confusing because most web searches already pull in academic results. We collapsed @search papers into @web. One toggle now controls whether chat reaches outside your library, and Anara picks the right backend (general web, academic databases, life sciences connectors) based on your question.

We removed the Related tab

The Related tab is gone from the right sidebar. The suggestions were noisy, and it duplicated functionality already covered by chat and the Agent. Help guide: The Related tab has been removed.

A few months ago we started experimenting with ways to direct AI agents to complete research tasks end-to-end. Instead of simply working along side us summarizing and editing, we wanted a system that could handle research work autonomously across the full literature synthesis workflow.

Today, we're introducing Anara 3.0, a major update to our model harness and research workspace. We rebuilt Anara from the ground up to handle long-running research tasks, reviewing up to 100,000 files at once and with superhuman accuracy.

Give it a goal like completing a literature review or mapping the competitive landscape for a drug class and Anara will search your library, the web and academic databases, synthesize what it finds to return a cited, verifiable document you can edit.

We're rolling out access today and through the rest of this week.

What's new in Anara 3.0

Agent sidebar

Agent now lives in a new right sidebar; you can access it by clicking the “Agent” button in the top right corner of the app. Describe what you want and Anara will get to work. The most effective prompts tell Anara what to look at and what you want back. But don’t worry too much about the perfect prompt because Anara will ask follow-up questions.

You'll see it working in the chat thread, communicating which files it's reading and tasks it's carrying out. Once complete, it produces a final response either in the chat window or if it creates something it will be open as a new tab in the workspace. You can expand each section to understand how it reached a specific conclusion.

The agent sidebar stays open as you move around the app, and your chats are saved in a new "Chats" section in the left sidebar. By default Agent draws context from your library, sources from the web and the files and folders you have in view. You can disable library and web as sources with the buttons at the bottom of the input.

97% more accurate than general purpose AI

We evaluated Anara 3.0 against six general-purpose AI platforms on a multi-document question-answering benchmark (MADQA). Each platform was tested under identical conditions: same documents, same questions, same scoring criteria.

Anara 3.0 answers more questions correctly than every other platform tested, including ChatGPT and NotebookLM.

Anara 3.0 scores 97% higher than the average of all other platforms tested (43%) at locating the exact page containing the answer.

500M+ papers indexed

We expanded the number of academic papers we have indexed from the open web now amounting to 500M+ across sources like arXiv and JSTOR. Life sciences sources are now built in as connectors @-mention PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, or ClinicalTrials.gov directly in chat to search them natively.

A more flexible interface

The agent works across many files, folders and notes in a single session, and until now that meant a lot of jumping between pages. To solve this problem we introduced a tabs feature. You can now open any file or folder as a tab and drag and split to work on files in parallel. Agent will always have context of the tabs in view.

Ask chat

The old way of chatting with files and folders hasn't gone anywhere. We just call it “Ask” chat now. Use it to keep a separate, ongoing conversation scoped to that specific file or folder. You can return to these chats just as you have previously by clicking the dropdown at the top of the chat thread.

Where people and AI do research work together

This won't be the last time the interface for doing science changes. More powerful models will unlock new interaction patterns. We're looking forward to continue building, simplifying and transforming Anara to be the place where people and AI do research work together.

These features were crafted by us but driven by conversations with you. Don't hesitate to reach out with thoughts and comments. We read every piece of feedback we get.

This update introduces a new and improved table UI, custom tags for organizing your library, a reading progress indicator, and major performance improvements for large libraries.

Improved tables

You can now view and interact with structured data directly in Anara across chat and notes.

In chat, ask questions about your documents and Anara will extract and structure data into readable tables automatically. You can select cells and copy them directly to Excel, Google Sheets or Apple Notes. Download any table as a CSV file, or expand it to save as a note for later reference.

In notes, tables now have better controls for organizing your data. Resize columns by dragging, reorder rows with drag and drop, and use the row and column menus to insert, delete or copy content. Cell selection lets you work with specific ranges, and columns can be sorted with a single click.

Tags

Create custom tags to organize documents your way. Assign colors to make tags easy to spot, edit names and colors anytime, and apply them across your library. Tags are workspace-wide so your whole team can use the same organization system.

Reading status

A new progress indicator shows how much of a document or video you've consumed. The visual progress circle appears in the table and right sidebar, updating as you scroll through PDFs, websites, notes or watch videos. Progress can fluctuate naturally as you navigate through content and locks at 100% once you've reached the end. Reset it manually anytime to start fresh.

Large library performance

Libraries with thousands of files now load significantly faster. Your files load in batches as you scroll, so you can start working right away instead of waiting for everything to appear. No more long waits or lag when browsing large workspaces.

Improvements

• Images from imported websites are now analyzed and described, giving you better context when chatting about imported content.
• Copy button now includes a dropdown to copy with or without citations. Use Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+C to copy with citations intact.
• Improved in-text referencing formatting accuracy by using page metadata to provide more precise page number references.
• Filter button shows a plus icon after applying a filter, making it clearer that you can add multiple filters.
• Folder owners are now displayed in settings, matching the layout used for workspace members.
• Visiting a shared folder link you don't have access to now shows a helpful message instead of silently redirecting.
• You can now delete your account even when your subscription is set to cancel at the end of the billing period.
• Improved visual consistency of focus states across all form inputs.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where in some cases folders would move back to their original location after being dragged into another folder and refreshing the page.
• Fixed an issue where Deep Search could occasionally hang on the final step.
• Fixed zooming in the PDF viewer with Ctrl+Scroll displaying "NaN%" instead of the correct zoom level.
• Fixed in-text citations being placed after the first word of the following sentence instead of at the end of highlighted text.
• Fixed an issue where mentioning a document in chat while workspace indexing was disabled would fail to provide a response.
• Fixed an issue where downloaded files would have incorrect names instead of matching their display name in Anara.
• Fixed missing timestamps on recently uploaded files - Files now display their upload time in the Recents section on the home screen.
• Fixed an issue where in some cases annotations could not be deleted from the right sidebar.
• Fixed an issue where clicking on annotations with comments wasn't scrolling to the correct location in the document.
• Fixed Harvard citation format to no longer include total page count, which is not standard for this citation style.
• Fixed an issue where red text was incorrectly appearing in generated summaries.
• Fixed text styling in thinking sections where lists appeared in black instead of the expected gray color.
• Fixed an issue where drag-and-drop was incorrectly triggered when interacting with list items.
• Fixed markdown rendering issues across summary, chat, and right sidebar panels for improved text formatting and readability.
• Text no longer loses its last character when adding a citation to content containing a period.