Locus Alternatives

If you're looking for a Locus alternative, Otio is another option worth considering. Otio is an AI-native workspace for research and writing that includes features like automatic summarization, AI-assisted text editing, and support for more than 20 languages. It can handle long documents and videos, and includes tools for generating outlines, comparing documents and creating first drafts. Otio is geared for researchers, students and analysts who need to process and understand lots of information.

Another alternative is Unriddle, an AI-powered information retrieval system that lets you read and research documents by creating an AI assistant for any document. Unriddle can answer questions immediately, summarize complex topics, take notes, highlight related sources and create interactive graphs to show relationships. It works in more than 90 languages and can be installed with a Chrome extension, so it's a good tool for in-depth research.

Sharly is another AI-powered tool for managing documents. Sharly lets you chat with documents and PDFs, with AI summarization, extraction of relevant citations and the ability to give it your own custom AI personality. It's for researchers, project managers and lawyers who have to do literature reviews and wrangle lots of documents. Sharly offers a free version and custom plans for companies.

If you're an academic researcher, Doclime is an AI-powered tool that automates some of the drudgery of finding relevant literature, extracting facts and writing research papers. It includes tools for brainstorming, semantic search and AI-assisted writing, which should help academics who struggle with writer's block and deadlines. Doclime is designed to save you hours of work by automating the writing of research papers.