How-to guides
Step-by-step guides to summarising, citing, and searching documents with AI - workflows where every claim stays checkable against the source passage.
29 guides
Chat With Email Attachments in Gmail & Outlook, No Downloads
Summarize and question the PDF, Word or PowerPoint attached to an email, straight from Gmail or Outlook on the web - no downloads, with cited answers.
Read the guideHow to Summarize a Google Doc With AI (2026 Guide)
Summarize any Google Doc, including multi-tab docs, with every point cited back to the exact passage you can open and verify. Read-only, no copy-paste.
Read the guideHow to Summarize a Confluence Page With AI
Summarize a long Confluence page or runbook and get every point cited to the exact section, so you can trust the summary without re-reading the wiki.
Read the guideHow to Review a Contract With AI Without Missing Clauses
Use AI to find and check the clauses that matter in a contract, with every answer cited to the exact wording, so you verify instead of trusting a summary.
Read the guideHow to Extract Action Items From Meeting Notes With AI
Turn long meeting notes into a clean list of action items, owners and decisions, each one cited back to the line where it was agreed, so nothing gets lost.
Read the guideHow to Chat With Your Entire Document Library
Ask one question across every document you've saved and get a synthesized answer that cites which source each point came from. No re-uploading, no lost context.
Read the guideWhat Is OCR? Why Your Scanned PDFs Read as Blank (and How to Fix It)
OCR in plain English: how to tell a scanned PDF from a born-digital one, free ways to add real text, and why OCR decides whether AI can cite your document.
Read the guideHow to Summarize a Research Paper With AI (and Keep the Citations)
How to summarize a research paper with AI without losing the caveats: section-aware summaries, checking claims against the paper, and a workflow for any tool.
Read the guideHow to Search Your Entire Confluence Space with AI
Index a whole Confluence space in one go, then ask across every page - with each answer cited to the exact page and passage. No admin install.
Read the guideHow to Chat With Your Documents (Without the Hallucinations)
Why generic chatbots invent answers about your files, how grounding and retrieval actually work, and a document chat workflow where every claim is checkable.
Read the guideHow to Summarize a PowerPoint or Lecture Slides With AI
How to summarize a PowerPoint or lecture slides with AI - get a cited summary of the key points from the deck you already have open, with no upload.
Read the guideHow to Make AI Answer Only From Your Own Documents
How to make AI answer only from your own documents - grounding every answer in your files so unsupported claims get dropped instead of guessed.
Read the guideHow to Generate a Glossary of Terms From Any Document
How to generate a glossary of terms from any document with AI - auto-extract the acronyms, jargon and proper nouns, each defined and cited to its first mention.
Read the guideHow to Find Information in Your Company's Wiki, Fast
How to find information in your company's wiki fast - summarize long pages, ask a direct question, and verify the answer against the exact cited passage.
Read the guideHow to Compare Two PDFs With AI (and Spot What Changed)
How to compare two PDFs with AI - group both versions, ask what changed, and get a cited answer pointing to the exact clause that differs between them.
Read the guideHow to Chat With Multiple PDFs at Once
How to chat with multiple PDFs at once - group them into one collection and ask across all of them, with every answer citing the source document it came from.
Read the guideHow to Summarize a Word Document with AI
Summarize a Word (.docx) document with AI in seconds - three ways to do it, which one fits your workflow, and how to keep every claim cited to the source.
Read the guideHow to Summarize a SharePoint Document
Summarize SharePoint documents and modern .aspx pages with AI - no downloads, summaries generated in place, and every claim cited back to the source passage.
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: summarize and chat with your Doc, and get every answer cited to the exact passage you can open and check.
Read the guideHow to Summarize a Long Notion Page with AI
Long Notion pages are hard to skim. Here's how to summarize 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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