Quickstart
Get your research library set up and start using Virza in just a few steps.
Sign up for Virza
Go to app.virza.io and create your account. You can sign up with:
- Google: One click, uses your Google account
- Email + password: Enter your email and choose a password
Create your first workspace
After signing in, you’ll be guided through creating a workspace. A workspace is your team’s home. It holds all your documents, collections, and notes.
Give your workspace a name (e.g., “PhD Research” or “Lab Group”) and optionally invite teammates.
You can always create more workspaces later. Many researchers have one workspace per project.
Upload your first document
Click Upload in the top bar or drag and drop a PDF onto the library view.
Virza supports:
- PDF: Academic papers, reports, preprints
- DOCX: Word documents
- TXT: Plain text files
Once uploaded, Virza automatically parses the document, extracts metadata (title, authors, abstract), and indexes it for search.
Explore AI features
After your document is processed, you can:
- Ask questions: Chat with your document using the AI sidebar
- Get summaries: View automatic document summaries
- Find connections: See how papers relate to each other in your library
- Extract citations: Virza pulls structured citation data automatically
Organize with collections
Create a Collection to group related documents. Think of collections as folders, but smarter:
- Drag documents into collections
- One document can live in multiple collections
- Filter and sort within any collection