How-to guides
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How to Summarize a Word Document with AI
Summarize a Word (.docx) document with AI in seconds — three ways to do it, how to keep formatting and citations intact, and which approach works best.
Read the guideHow to Summarize a SharePoint Document
Summarize SharePoint documents and pages with AI without downloading them — how it works, what's possible today, and how to keep every claim cited to the source.
Read the guideHow to Cite a PDF in APA, MLA & Chicago
Cite any PDF correctly in APA, MLA, or Chicago — what details you need, where to find them, and how to handle missing authors, dates, and page numbers.
Read the guideHow to Use AI in Google Docs (With Citations)
How to use AI in Google Docs without losing the source: summarise and chat with your Doc, and get every answer cited to the exact passage you can open and check.
Read the guideHow to Summarise a Long Notion Page with AI
Long Notion pages are hard to skim. Here's how to summarise any Notion page with AI and get a cited summary where every point links back to the source block.
Read the guideHow to Search Across Multiple Confluence Spaces with AI
Confluence search struggles across spaces. Here's how to search across multiple Confluence spaces with AI and get answers cited to the exact page and passage.
Read the guideHow to Summarise a Long PDF Without Losing Accuracy
Long PDFs break naive AI summaries. Here's how to summarize a long PDF in sections, handle scanned pages, and keep every claim traceable to the source.
Read the guideHow to Understand Academic Papers When You're Not an Expert
A beginner-friendly guide to understanding academic papers: decode jargon, read methods and figures, sanity-check statistics, and verify every claim.
Read the guideHow to Search Across All Your Company Docs and Wikis
How to search across company documents scattered in Confluence, Notion, SharePoint and Drive — and read the answer with a cited source you can verify.
Read the guideHow to Read Research Papers Faster (A Strategic Method)
Learn how to read research papers faster with the abstract-first, three-pass method — plus how an AI explainer that cites the exact passage cuts your reading time.
Read the guideHow to Get AI to Cite Its Sources (and Verify Them)
Most AI tools fake or omit citations. Here's how to make AI cite the exact passage it used — and how to check the citation is real before you trust it.
Read the guideHow to Extract Text From a Scanned PDF (OCR) — and Use It
A practical guide to extracting text from a scanned PDF with OCR — the free tools, Adobe, accuracy gotchas, and how to actually read and question the result.
Read the guideDo AI Summaries Hallucinate? How to Stop It
Yes — AI summaries hallucinate because the model predicts plausible text, not grounded fact. Here's why it happens and how to stop it with citation-checking.
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