Research Lenses
Save your favorite filter combinations so you can switch between topics instantly.
What are Lenses?
Imagine you regularly look for articles about three different topics: marine biology, vaccine communication, and climate policy. Each time, you'd need to type a search, pick disciplines, and set your filters.
A Research Lens saves all of those settings in one click. Create a lens called "Marine Bio" with your preferred filters, and you can switch to it instantly whenever you want.
Creating a Lens
- Set up the Hub the way you want it. Apply your search terms, pick disciplines, and choose a source type.
- Look for the lens icon in the toolbar (it looks like a small eye or filter symbol).
- Click it and give your lens a name (like "My Niche" or "Vaccine Lit").
- Pick a color so you can tell your lenses apart at a glance.
- Save it.
Switching between Lenses
Once you've created lenses, you'll see a dropdown in the toolbar that lets you switch between them. All your filters update instantly.
You can also set a default lens. This is the one that loads automatically every time you open the Hub, so you always start in your preferred view.
Sometimes the best discoveries come from outside your usual bubble. The Mix It Up button shows you random or adjacent content that doesn't match your current filters. It's a deliberate way to stumble onto something you wouldn't have searched for.