Socrates Reviews

I got Socrates more or less as a back up to Afforai. I was pleasantly surprised to find out Socrates is actually a fantastic product and the Deep Dive and Prompt Loop features are truly unique! I'm loving Socrates and plan to use it much more in the future as I'm a heavy researcher. What I would like to see in the future is BYOK support, and more of a variety of LLM's to choose from.

Keep up the great work, I hope this tool is here for the long haul!

At first, I asked for help because I set up my account incorrectly, and it was resolved right away, so I'm using it well now.
I'm Korean. Socrates understands and summarizes PDFs in languages ​​other than English, so it's a great help for my work.
Originally, I had to read everything and understand it myself, but it took a lot of time and it was too difficult for me to understand many pages.
I look forward to the continued development of features in the future.

* Unprofessional Team: Lacks basic client communication and support.
* Slow and Inaccurate AI: AI results are both delayed and unreliable.
* Outdated Interface: A clunky, archaic design that feels like a relic from the past.
* Poor Cloud Integration: Slow file extraction and such has Dropbox
* Misleading Features: The "loop" or "deep analysis" functions are ineffective and time-consuming. Returns more inaccurate results
* Useless Desktop App: A confusing, poorly designed desktop application with no clear purpose.
Seems like a “URL to desk” app.

Honestly, we see that it's a start, but the tool has a lot of potential and can easily cross hard informations for a lot of content.
Could add the ability to reuse a doc from an other chat to save cost and use. Or even to reuse the content of an other chat or use block references.
But for now it's a 100% :) !

I used it for a few hours earlier - I threw two technical heavy books at it, ones that normally I'd procrastinate on due to their complexity relative to my knowledge.

I'm pretty sure this is not the intended use of the app at least in deep dive mode (I used up 75% of this months tier 2 credit on just these 2 books) but it made wading through tricky concepts a lot easier.

I like the split screen mode reading the books and running queries simultaneously.

I wonder if there could be a bit more interaction with the source file and the deep dives - Perhaps that's what the table function is for. I don't dare try that feature right now just in case i burn through my remaining 25% credit by accident.
It would be useful to have some PDF editing functionality - somewhere between basic functions found in a PDF app, and more advanced stuff found in something like Liquid Text .

I found highlighting text buggy when trying to use the summerize/explain/custom instruction feature - it clips the highlighted selection making the output wrong.

I'm looking forward to more reading soon.