- Choose how you will access ReadCube.
ReadCube Desktop for Mac or Windows
ReadCube for Apple iOS
ReadCube for Google Android OS
The interface and features are very similar across platforms, so you can choose which to use based on your device preference. (Examples below show the desktop app on Windows 8.)
- Add files or citations.
Click the "Import PDF to Library" button.

Drag and drop saved PDFs to see citations generate automatically. (If you want ReadCube to save your files in "lists" based on folder names on your desktop, choose "yes" under "Sort Into Lists.")
If you want to switch from another citation manager, you can export all your citations into a file then import it into ReadCube. Follow the "Click here for directions" link in the "Add Articles" menu.
Click the "Create a Reference" button to enter title, author, and other citation metadata manually.

- Get recommendations of articles you may be interested in based on the files saved to your library.
Click "Recommendations" and choose a specific list that you want related articles for and choose how recently the recommended publications were released.

Choose an article and use the options at the bottom-right to add it to your library.
ReadCube has many other useful features such as easily inserting references and bibliography into Microsoft Word, saving articles from the web using the ReadCube bookmarklet, annotating saved articles, and searching Google Scholar and PubMed directly in ReadCube. Go to ReadCube's "bootcamp" site to view brief instructional videos.