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Pull the passages that back a point, check a quote before you use it, and keep the citations straight. For anyone drafting from material they have already read — an essay, a memo, a launch post — who would rather quote the source than paraphrase a memory of it.

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Set it up

1

Put the material on one shelf

i’m writing about retention. save these three links tagged retention-essay, and tell me if i already had any of them.
smry says which ones were already there. Duplicates do not pile up.
2

See what you already have

show me everything i’ve saved or highlighted that touches retention. separate the highlights from the articles.
One search covers saved items, your standalone notes, and the highlights you made in the reader. Old reading counts as material.
3

Fix the citation shape up front

whenever you hand me a passage, give me the title, the url, and the paragraph anchor. i’m pasting those into the draft.
Say it once and every answer afterwards arrives paste-ready.

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A drafting session

i’m arguing that onboarding email is a retention lever. pull every passage in my library that supports it, with citations.
now find the counter-argument. anything i saved that says the opposite?
That is the passage you want in the draft as the objection, and it came out of your own shelf rather than out of thin air.
in the intercom piece, where does it define activation? quote it.
Searching inside one saved item returns the sentence and its anchor. A definition you quote wrong is worse than no definition.

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More to lift

check this before i use it: does the source actually say 40% of churn happens in week one?
which of my highlights mention pricing pages? list them with the piece each came from.
i have three quotes making the same point. which is strongest, and why?
read this competitor’s changelog and tell me what they claim that none of my sources back up.
turn these five citations into a footnote list with title, publication, date and url.
give me the five oldest things i saved on this topic, so i can see whether the argument has moved since.

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Questions

No. Notes and highlights are read-only over the API — your agent can search and quote them, but it cannot create them. You make highlights in the smry reader. What your agent produces goes into your draft, in your editor.It can save an item, though, including text you supply. If you want something on the shelf, ask for it as a saved item with a title and tags.
No. ¶18 is a position in the extracted text, not a URL fragment. Cite it as plain text next to the source link. Handing the anchor back to your agent works — it will pick up reading from there.
No. smry’s side ends at the passage. The writing happens wherever you already write, and your agent carries the quotes across.
Both are read the same way as a web page, along with Word, PowerPoint, spreadsheets, EPUB, subtitles, and plain text. Anything parsed for text has to be under 25 MB; uploads cap at 100 MB.

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Run a research thread

Where the material on that shelf comes from in the first place.

Keep what matters

Tags, stars, triage, and what saving actually stores.

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The catalogue behind these prompts.
Last modified on September 13, 2026