Chengzheng (Copland) Yong

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Deploy Gemini in Zotero (you can also deploy other models if you have their API)

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Once you successfully deploy it, you can let AI summarize a paper for you with one click, or select a few papers in the same field and ask for a review, get a new idea based on their correlations, or ask if there is a knowledge gap in this field etc. Check it out! Example: one paper
(An example of asking a question on the content of one paper)

Example: multiple papers
(An example of asking for a knowledge gap and a new idea based multiple papers)

The recipes you should have

  • Zotero version 7.x (my example is 7.0.15)
  • Awesome GPT plugin for zotero (if you don’t have one, check “Awesome GPT installation” below)
  • A Gemini API (if you don’t have one, check “Getting Gemini API” below)
  • A SiliconFlow API (if you don’t have one, check “Getting SiliconFlow API” below)

If you have all above, you can jump to “Deploy” section!

Awesome GPT installation

You can download it from the Zotero Chinese forum or the github release. In Tools->Plugins, click this little gear, choose “Install Plugin From File”. Choose the file (zotero-gpt.xpi) you just downloaded, and your installation is complete (hopefully)! Plugin install

Get Google Gemini API

Go to AI Studio, click “Get API key”, then click “+ Create API key”, you will get a very long code. This is your Gemini API key. It is free, if your usage is within its plan for free clients.

Get a SiliconFlow API

This is for embedding Gemini into AwesomeGPT, also free. Go to SiliconFlow, login with any method, then click “API Keys”, then “Create API Key”.

Awesome GPT configuration

configuration

Go to “Edit->Settings”, click “GPT”. Simply apply the settings in this image. Make sure to choose “Full API” for Gemini. The model is not very important, for summarization, gemini-2.0-flash and gemini-2.5-flash are about the same. You can tune the “Temperature” higher if you want gemini to say something more creative (or crazier). Paste your Gemini API key in there, and paste your SiliconFlow API key down there (yeah you should check “Using custon embeddings first”), then you are all set! Play with it!