2026-09-07
Researcher story: the results table that follows the paper
Priya writes a survey. The three papers she cites most keep updating their live results tables. She crops each table into a widget and reads them beside her draft — always the current numbers.
A survey paper ages badly when its sources move. Priya's three key references publish live results tables that get corrected for months after publication. Copying numbers into her draft meant re-checking them by hand every week.
What she crops
One table per paper — the headline results block, roughly 600×320 pixels. The crop includes the table's own "last updated" line, so the widget carries its freshness with it.
How it sits in her notes
- Three widgets, one per reference, cropped in Widget.diy with fit
staticso column alignment never shifts. - In her Lark doc, the three embeds sit in a column next to the paragraph that discusses them.
- Refresh daily. When a table changes, she sees it change — and re-reads the paragraph that cites it.
The part she likes most
"My citations stopped being snapshots. The numbers in my margin are the numbers on the publisher's page, today."