Set it up once
1
Gather the sources into one collection
make a collection called “battery supply chain” and follow these five sites in it.A collection is a folder for sources. Everything below scopes to it, so the thread stays separate from the rest of your reading.
2
Add the topic itself
add a news query for “sodium-ion battery plant” to that collection.Most of what matters on a new topic is published by outlets you have never heard of. A news query follows the subject instead of the masthead.
3
Agree on how things get saved
when i send you a link on this topic, save it tagged battery-supply-chain, and star it if it carries primary data.Say this once and your agent keeps the shelf tidy for the rest of the thread. Tags are what make week six searchable.
A session in week six
what came into the battery collection this week? skip pure funding rounds, one line each.
save the argonne one and the nikkei one, tag them battery-supply-chain and cathode, star the argonne study.Two items land on the shelf with the tags already right. Nothing about this depends on you remembering to file it later.
across everything tagged battery-supply-chain, what do the sources disagree about? cite the paragraph for each side.
¶31 and check.
More to lift
what is the earliest thing i saved on this topic, and what did it predict?
in that argonne study, find where it gives a cost per kilowatt-hour.
build me a timeline of what i saved on this, month by month, with links.
which sources in the battery collection have i never saved anything from?
what did i save this month and never open?
three of these say costs are falling. quote the exact sentence from each and name the source.The last one is worth running before you repeat a number in front of anyone. Searching inside one saved item returns the sentence, not a summary of the sentence.
Questions
Do I have to save something for my agent to use it later?
Do I have to save something for my agent to use it later?
Yes. Following a source gets you the entries; saving is what puts the full
text on your shelf and makes it searchable months later. A good habit is to
save during the catch-up, not afterwards — the prompt above does it in the
same breath as the triage.
What happens if the publisher rewrites or deletes the piece?
What happens if the publisher rewrites or deletes the piece?
Your saved copy stays. smry stores the extracted content when you save, so
a deleted post is still readable and still searchable. If you uploaded a
file, the original bytes come back too.
What about sources behind a paywall?
What about sources behind a paywall?
smry does not get past hard paywalls, sign-in walls, or anything on a
private network. For those, read the piece where you already have access
and save the text yourself — your agent can store supplied text as an item,
and it is searchable exactly like a fetched one.
How do I keep the thread from swamping my other reading?
How do I keep the thread from swamping my other reading?
Keep it in its own collection and ask for the collection by name. Every
catch-up prompt above scopes to it. Sources outside it are untouched.
Next
Write from your sources
Turn six weeks of saved material into a draft with real citations.
Ask your library
What one search across items, notes, and highlights actually covers.
Every tool your agent gets
The catalogue behind these prompts.