Show HN: Research Wheel – Local-first gesture menu for research and citations
🧪 Research Wheel What It Is Transform your research speed with Research Wheel an 8-action, single-ring radial gesture menu and workspace sidebar extension works on Google and is tailored natively for Mozilla Firefox under the WebExtensions Manifest V3 architecture. It provides immediate access to search actions, note clipping, and citation generation. Unified Workspace Sidebar: A native Firefox sidebar that displays your saved notes, clipped quotes, and generated citations.
- ▪🧪 Research Wheel What It Is Transform your research speed with Research Wheel an 8-action, single-ring radial gesture menu and workspace sidebar extension works on Google and is tailored natively for Mozilla Firefox under the WebExtensions
- ▪It provides immediate access to search actions, note clipping, and citation generation.
- ▪Unified Workspace Sidebar: A native Firefox sidebar that displays your saved notes, clipped quotes, and generated citations.
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/fluryjanis/ResearchWheel |
| Publication time | Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:59:36 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-11T21:56:10.145Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-11T21:56:10.145Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | uXXRVXG-8M4s · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
🧪 Research Wheel What It Is Transform your research speed with Research Wheel an 8-action, single-ring radial gesture menu and workspace sidebar extension works on Google and is tailored natively for Mozilla Firefox under the WebExtensions Manifest V3 architecture. Created to eliminate browsing friction, it assists researchers, students, and writers with rapid content clipping, citation generation, translation, and academic searches directly from any webpage. 🚀 Direct Store Downloads 🦊 Download on Firefox Add-ons (AMO) (Recommended for Firefox) 🎮 Get it on itch.io Key Features & Gestures Features 8-Octant Radial Wheel: Drag-to-select radial menu triggered via middle-click. It provides immediate access to search actions, note clipping, and citation generation.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.