Connect Notion

Connect Notion and your pages, databases, and notes become searchable alongside your uploaded papers in the same chat. Use it to check your own notes and synthesis against the primary literature. Anara can also write back to Notion, but only after you confirm each change.

Prompt

A research program manager cross-references her Notion evidence synthesis against a library of policy papers and evaluation reports.

I have connected my Notion workspace. My "Evidence Synthesis" database has entries for each policy intervention I am tracking. My Anara library has the underlying reports and papers.

Search my Notion "Evidence Synthesis" database for entries related to housing affordability interventions. Then search my Anara library for papers on the same topic. Tell me: where do my Notion synthesis notes align with what the papers say, and where do they conflict or have gaps the papers address but my notes do not?

What to add to your library

• Required: a connected Notion workspace. You are prompted to connect via OAuth if it is not linked yet; it only needs to happen once.
• Optional: the specific database or page to search, to reduce noise from unrelated pages.
• Optional: a description of how your workspace is organized, so Anara navigates to the right material.

What you get

• A cross-source synthesis of what your Notion notes and your library papers say, with citations from both.
• Where they conflict, both passages cited so you can decide which is more reliable or current.

Follow-ups

Add a new entry to your Notion database.

Based on the synthesis you just produced on housing affordability interventions, create a new entry in my "Evidence Synthesis" database. Use the standard fields: Policy Type, Evidence Summary, Key Papers, Confidence Level, and Date Added. Set Confidence Level to "Moderate" and today's date for Date Added. Show me what you are about to add and wait for my approval before saving.

Find notes that may be outdated.

Check my Notion "Evidence Synthesis" entries for any topic where the most recent paper in my Anara library on that topic was published after the Notion entry was last edited. Flag those entries as potentially outdated and tell me which papers may have changed the picture.

Tips

• Name the database or page. "Search my Notion workspace" searches broadly.
• Notion search is by keyword. If a page uses different terminology, search by its name or paste its content.
• Read proposed writes carefully before approving. Once confirmed, changes to Notion are live.