> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.rytz.com.au/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# My Research
> Your personal annotated library of cases, sections, and Education Portal entries you've saved — a private subset of the Legal Research Library scoped to the authority that matters to your matter.
import { Card, CardGroup, Note, Tip } from '@mintlify/components'
**My Research** is your personal annotated subset of the [Legal Research Library](/learn/legal-research-library) and the [Education Portal](/learn/education-portal). When you find an entry that matters to your matter, you save it. My Research is where saved entries live — searchable, annotated, and filterable — at `app.rytz.com.au/my-research`.
## Why a separate surface
The Library covers 2,389+ entries. The Education Portal covers most major sections and concepts. For any one matter, only a small fraction of these entries actually matter — the leading cases on the specific issue, the sections directly invoked, the concepts you keep returning to.
My Research is the curated subset. It is the difference between "I have access to the library" and "I have a 25-entry working library scoped to my matter that I can find anything in within 30 seconds".
## How saving works
From any Library entry or Education Portal entry, click **Save** to add it to My Research. Two prompts appear:
Apply tags to organise. Useful tag conventions: `interim-hearing`, `s60I-exemption`, `contributions`, `safety-overlay`, `key-citation`. Use the same tags as your Evidence Portfolio for consistency.
Why are you saving this? "Cited in interim affidavit para 14" or "Authority for the s60CG safety overlay clause" or "Distinguishable from our matter — note for cross-examination". Future-you reads this and knows immediately why this entry matters.
The save persists immediately. The entry appears in My Research with the tags and note attached.
## Three views
Most recently saved at the top. Useful for "what was I reading last week?".
Group entries by tag. Useful when preparing for a specific use ("show me everything tagged interim-hearing").
Cases · Sections · Education Portal entries · Practice notes. Useful for citation prep ("show me all cases I've saved").
Full-text search across entries + your annotations. The notes you wrote on each save become searchable — "find the entry where I wrote about para 14".
## Annotation patterns
A few annotation conventions that pay off:
| Pattern | Example |
| --------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Cite location** | "Cited in interim affidavit para 17" |
| **Why it matters** | "Authority for safety-paramount under post-2024 framework" |
| **How it differs** | "Distinguishable on facts — different relationship length" |
| **Counter-arguments** | "Weak point — court may distinguish based on relocation distance" |
| **Action item** | "Need to find at least one more case supporting this proposition" |
Annotations support inline links to your Evidence Portfolio items and other Master Case File entries. "See JL-3 for the contemporaneous record of the changeover this case considered."
## Bundling for export
When preparing for a hearing or a lawyer briefing, you can bundle My Research entries into a single PDF — useful for "the cases the platform is recommending I rely on" reading material.
Steps:
1. From My Research, select the entries (or filter to a tag like `final-hearing-prep`)
2. Click **Bundle**
3. Choose: **Annotated** (your notes included) or **Clean** (entries only, no annotations)
4. Generate PDF
Annotated bundles are for you (or for a lawyer who wants your reasoning). Clean bundles are for filing-adjacent contexts where your annotations would be inappropriate to share.
## Where My Research connects
* **AI assistant** — when you ask matter-specific questions, the assistant prioritises authority you've already saved over generic Library entries
* **Affidavit Preparation** — citation suggestions surface your saved cases first
* **Master Case File** — the Strategy section's citations pull from My Research where relevant
* **Evidence Portfolio** — annotations cross-link
## When My Research is most useful
| Context | Why it pays off |
| ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Trial preparation | A focused authority pack scoped to the contested issues |
| FDR / conciliation | The 5–10 cases you're prepared to cite in mediation |
| Lawyer consultations | "Here are the cases I think are most relevant — what's your view?" |
| Self-study during quiet weeks | Build the matter's authority base before urgency arrives |
| Mid-matter revision | Re-read what you saved 6 months ago to see if your view has shifted |
## Maintenance
A few practices that keep My Research useful:
**Save the case that distinguishes**, not just the case that supports. The cases that go against your position are the ones you'll be cross-examined about. Save them, annotate them, and prepare for them. A self-rep who's only read supportive cases is the easiest party to surprise at trial.
**Re-tag periodically.** Tags drift. The `interim-hearing` tag from three months ago may now mean "trial prep" because the matter has progressed. Spending 10 minutes a quarter cleaning tags pays off enormously.
**Export to PDF before any major hearing.** A printed annotated bundle is a different mental tool from a digital one — useful in court when phones aren't an option.
## What My Research is not
* **Not a citation manager.** Tools like Zotero or Mendeley are for academic-style citation management. My Research is for matter-driven case prep; less feature-rich, more focused.
* **Not a replacement for the Library.** The Library is the universal corpus; My Research is your filter onto it. Always start in the Library to find authority; save what matters to My Research.
* **Not a substitute for primary-source reading.** Each My Research entry links to AustLII for the full judgment. For high-stakes citations, read the full judgment, not just the summary.
## What's next
Search the full corpus and save entries to My Research.
Plain-English entries that also save to My Research.
Strategy citations draw from My Research.
Citation-suggestion surfaces use My Research as priority.