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Ask Anara to create a note on a specific topic from your uploaded papers. Every claim in the note carries a citation badge you can click through to the source passage. The note opens in the split-screen editor alongside your library. For researchers who want the output of a literature conversation saved as a citable, editable document they can return to.

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1. Describe the task

You have been chatting with Anara about a topic across several sessions. The answers are useful, but they live in chat transcripts you cannot revisit or build on. What you need is the same synthesis, but saved as a note: structured, cited, editable, and available in the next session without having to reconstruct the context. Anara can write that note for you directly from your library. You name the topic, scope it to a folder if you have one, and ask Anara to create a note. Anara searches your library, drafts the content with inline citations, and saves it to your workspace. The note opens in the split-screen editor with the library still available alongside it. Every citation badge in the note is clickable and takes you to the specific passage in the source PDF. The note is a working document, not a final deliverable. You edit it, extend it, add follow-up queries to it over several sessions. Because the library stays in scope while the note is open, you can ask Anara to add a section while you are reading it, then continue editing yourself. Here a PhD student in cognitive neuroscience has forty papers on decision-making under uncertainty uploaded and wants a research note she can use as the foundation for her literature review chapter. 
Create a note called "Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Library Summary."

Write a structured research summary from my uploaded papers covering the following: (1) the main theoretical frameworks used to explain decision-making under uncertainty, (2) how these frameworks differ in their treatment of ambiguity versus risk, and (3) what the evidence base says about individual differences in uncertainty tolerance.

Use only papers in my library. Include an inline citation for every claim. For each section, identify any gaps in the evidence base where my library does not provide strong support.

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2. Give Anara context

Required context
  • A library with uploaded papers. Nothing to attach separately; the library is the source.
Optional context
  • A folder to scope the search to. Anara covers all papers in that folder rather than sampling broadly from the library.
  • An outline or section headings you want the note to follow. Anara uses your structure rather than generating its own.

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3. What Anara creates

A note saved to your workspace with a structured synthesis of your library on the named topic. Each section covers one aspect of the topic you defined, and every claim cites the specific passage that supports it. The note opens in the split-screen editor so you can read and edit it alongside your library. The output is the starting document for a literature review chapter, a research memo, or a knowledge base entry you build on over time.

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4. Follow-up prompts

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Add a new section to the existing note

When you want to extend the note without rewriting it. 
Add a new section to the note called "Methodological Approaches." Write 150 to 200 words covering the measurement methods used across the papers in my library to assess uncertainty tolerance, with citations. Append it after the third section.

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Open the note alongside a specific paper

When you want to work with the note and a source paper in split-screen at the same time. 
Open the note "Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Library Summary" and the paper by Levy et al. in my library side by side. I want to read the paper and update the note with anything it adds that is not already covered.

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Export the note as a Word document

When the note is ready to move into your thesis template. 
Export the note "Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Library Summary" as a Word document. Keep the section headers and the citation formatting.

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5. Tricks, tips, and troubleshooting

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How you word your prompt shapes what you get

The prompt must contain the words “create a note” for Anara to write to the workspace rather than return the output in chat. A prompt that says “write me a summary” produces a chat response you cannot save to the workspace. Naming the note explicitly (“call it X”) means you can find it again in the sidebar and reference it by name in follow-up prompts. If you want the note organized by sub-topic rather than by paper, say so in the prompt. Anara defaults to a thematic structure when you describe the content areas, and to a paper-by-paper structure when you do not.

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Check the output against your own understanding

The note synthesizes across your library, which means claims can be drawn from papers you have weighted lightly in your own reading. Before treating a note section as settled, check the cited passages. If a claim in the note traces to a single paper rather than a pattern across several, decide whether it needs qualifying language (“one study found…”) or whether you should find additional support before the chapter goes to review. The note is a first draft, not a final product.

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What to do with the output next

Keep the note open in the split-screen editor as you do subsequent research sessions. Ask Anara to add sections, update claims with newly imported papers, or flag gaps in the evidence base as your library grows. When the note is structurally complete, use the claim-verification workflow to audit any section you drafted yourself rather than asked Anara to write. Export to DOCX when you are ready to transfer the content into your thesis template.