AI notebook for the sources behind a project
If you want an AI notebook for a document project, Search+ gives you the parts that matter for sources: a workspace that holds the PDFs, standing instructions that frame every question, and saved conversations you can reopen. It is a notebook in the sense of a project binder you can question, not a page where you type notes. Each answer cites the source excerpt it used, and the whole binder is still there when you come back.
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A notebook-style project in practice
How the pieces fit together over a few sessions.
A workspace named for the project, eight source PDFs uploaded in one batch, and a Workspace Context line saying which terms to use and that older sources should be flagged as such.
"Give me a summary of the whole workspace." The summary comes back with citations to each document it drew on.
"In the vendor proposal only, what is said about support hours?" Scoped to one file, the answer cites only that proposal.
"Which of these sources mention the migration deadline, and do they give the same date?" The answer lists each mention with its citation, so a mismatch between two documents is easy to spot and confirm.
Search your conversations by name, reopen Tuesday's thread and ask the follow-up you did not have time for.
What people mean by an AI notebook
"AI notebook" is used for at least three different things: a coding notebook with an AI helper, a note-taking app with AI features, and a source notebook where you collect documents and question them. The third kind is the one relevant to document work. Its job is to keep a project's sources together, remember the context of the project and let you ask questions grounded in those sources over time. Search+ fits that description through three features: workspaces that hold your PDFs, Workspace Context for standing instructions, and a conversation history you can return to. It does not offer a typing surface for your own notes, and it does not turn sources into audio. If your current notebook is a folder of PDFs plus a separate document of notes, Search+ replaces the folder half: the sources become something you can question and cite, while the notes stay wherever you write them today.
How to set up Search+ as a project notebook
- Create one workspace per project
Treat the workspace as the notebook's cover: name it for the project and archive it when you are done.
- File the sources
Upload the project's PDFs, up to 10 per batch. Each one shows its status as it is processed in the background.
- Write the notebook's standing instructions
Workspace Context holds the instructions that apply to every question in this workspace, such as priorities, terminology or exclusions.
- Question it over time
Ask across the whole workspace or one document, keep the conversations, and reopen them from history when the project moves on.
What the Search+ notebook holds
Each workspace keeps its own PDFs, and you can create, rename and archive workspaces as projects change.
Workspace Context stores standing instructions once and applies them to every question in that workspace.
Earlier conversations stay in your history, and you can search them by name.
Answers include inline citations to the source document and the supporting excerpt.
Ask for a summary of a single document or of the whole workspace.
Workspaces, documents and conversations are saved, so the notebook is where you left it.
Answers stream in as they are written, so you can start reading before the reply is finished.
What this notebook leaves out
There is no editor for writing your own notes inside Search+. Keep notes in your usual app and use Search+ for the source questions.
Search+ does not turn documents into audio or podcast-style summaries. Answers are text in chat.
There are no code cells, data frames or charts. For data analysis, use a coding notebook.
AI answers can be incomplete or inaccurate. Open the cited excerpt before relying on an important claim.
A paper binder versus a Search+ workspace
| Need | Binder of printed sources | Search+ workspace |
|---|---|---|
| Find what a source says | Flip pages and skim | Ask and open the cited excerpt |
| Keep project rules in view | A sheet clipped to the front | Workspace Context on every question |
| Ask across all sources | Read each one again | One question over the whole workspace |
| Resume after a break | Reread your margin notes | Reopen the saved conversation |
AI notebook questions
Is Search+ an AI notebook like NotebookLM?
Is there an AI notebook app for phones?
Does it work with Google Drive?
Can I write notes in the notebook?
Can I keep several notebooks?
How should I organize a notebook with many sources?
Can the notebook remember how I want answers framed?
Can I search inside old conversations?
Do I need to pay to start?
What happens to the notebook when the project ends?
Start a notebook your sources can answer from
Create a workspace, file your PDFs and write the project's standing instructions once.
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