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Sometimes you come across a paper, a preprint, or a report that you want to share with your audience right away — but writing it up takes time you do not have.
That is exactly the problem Magic Link is designed to solve.
Magic Link is a one-field shortcut for adding content to your newsletter queue. Paste any URL into the field — a DOI, a PubMed link, an arXiv preprint, or even a general web page — and Collate takes care of the rest. Behind the scenes, it resolves the identifier, pulls metadata, and then generates a reader-friendly headline, a plain-language summary, and a properly formatted citation, all calibrated to your newsletter's configured audience and language. If any of your registered ORCID authors appear on the paper, the system automatically tags them as contributors. It even attempts to pull a featured image from the article's landing page.
The whole process runs in the background. Once it finishes, you get an email letting you know your content is ready for review. The item lands at the top of your queue with a "processing" badge that clears once everything is populated. From there, you can edit the headline, tweak the summary, swap the image, or just leave it as-is.
Magic Link is the default mode in the Add Content panel of your admin dashboard — you will see it as soon as you open the panel, with a tab to switch to Add Manually if you prefer to compose from scratch. There are no additional settings to enable; if you can see the Add Content panel, Magic Link is ready to use.
It handles edge cases gracefully, too. If a URL has already been added to your newsletter, it will let you know rather than creating a duplicate. If content extraction fails for any reason — a paywalled page, an unsupported format — it sends you a notification with the option to add the content manually instead. Nothing is lost.
For newsletters that track research output through ORCID profiles, Magic Link is a useful complement to the automated discovery pipeline. It lets you queue up works that fall outside the usual discovery window, or highlight a piece that you spotted before the metadata bot did. For newsletters focused on general content, it is a fast way to turn a bookmarked link into a polished queue item without leaving the admin panel.
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