Use two source notes to answer one clear question. Check the citations and fix the draft before saving it.
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Choose one question and sources you may use
This exercise answers: what is confirmed for the launch, and what still needs a decision? Use the fictional notes first. On desktop, Google documents Create new notebook, then Upload a source. Use pasted text for the two notes in the next stage. Its help page says each notebook is independent. Keep this exercise in one notebook and do not connect a private Drive or add web research. If your account lacks the documented controls, practise the source check here without uploading.
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Choose one question and sources you may use
This exercise answers: what is confirmed for the launch, and what still needs a decision? Use the fictional notes first. On desktop, Google documents Create new notebook, then Upload a source. Use pasted text for the two notes in the next stage. Its help page says each notebook is independent. Keep this exercise in one notebook and do not connect a private Drive or add web research. If your account lacks the documented controls, practise the source check here without uploading.
Prepare two separately named source notes
Fictional source A — Planning meeting, 6 September:
[A1] The login test passed for eight pilot testers. No result is available for all customers.
[A2] Launch approval is pending. CNY 3,000 is a proposed budget, not an approved budget.
[A3] The project lead will request approval on 8 September. No launch date is confirmed.
Fictional source B — Unapproved announcement draft:
[B1] We launch on 10 September with an approved CNY 3,000 budget.
[B2] This is a writing draft, not an approval record.
Keep the A/B names and paragraph labels. Add the notes as separate pasted-text sources and inspect each imported source before asking a question.
Select both sources and ask your question
Use only the supplied sources to answer the stated question. For the fictional A/B exercise, answer what is confirmed for launch and what still needs a decision. For other sources, ask for the question if it is missing before drafting. Produce four sections: supported facts, unresolved decisions or questions, conflicts between sources, and the next action. Cite important statements with actual source names and paragraph labels. Distinguish an approved record from an unapproved draft; do not invent approval or resolve conflicts by preferring confident wording. For fictional launch sources A/B, preserve the eight-person sample, proposed budget and pending approval; do not import those counts, dates or launch claims into other documents. Keep absent dates/owners unknown and do not browse for missing facts. In the provider, select only the sources relevant to this question and exclude unrelated ones; for the fictional exercise select A and B. You can also do this source check manually. Question and sources:
Paste the draft here and check its citations
Paste the response here, or write a manual brief if the provider is unavailable. Google documents hovering over a citation to see its quote and selecting it to open the source location. Check A2 beside B1 and read B2 as well: a citation to B1 does not make its draft claim an approved fact. If citations are absent or point to the wrong passage, select only A and B, ask a narrower question and keep the affected claim unresolved. Copying text here may lose clickable provider citations; retain the source labels.
Worked brief — fictional A/B sources, not a real launch decision
Confirmed facts in the supplied notes
The login test passed for eight pilot testers [Planning meeting, A1]. This is the stated pilot result, not evidence for all customers. The meeting note says the project lead will request approval on 8 September [Planning meeting, A3]; it does not say that request has happened.
Unresolved decisions
Launch approval is pending and CNY 3,000 is proposed, not approved [Planning meeting, A2]. No launch date is confirmed [Planning meeting, A3]. The notes do not name the approver or give an approval deadline. Keep those questions open.
Conflicts between sources
The announcement says launch is on 10 September with an approved CNY 3,000 budget [Announcement draft, B1]. That differs from the pending approval and unconfirmed date in A2–A3. B2 explicitly calls it an unapproved writing draft, so B1 is not an approval record. Report its claim as draft wording; do not use it to declare the launch confirmed. These notes also do not establish that 10 September is impossible or cancelled.
Next action
The stated next action is the project lead’s request for approval on 8 September [Planning meeting, A3]. Suggested clarification: ask the responsible team for the actual approval decision, budget status and confirmed launch date before using announcement wording. That is a proposed check, not an action taken here or a promise that approval will arrive on 8 September.
Repair example
Wrong: “All customers passed testing and launch is approved for 10 September.”
Better: “Testing passed for eight pilot testers [A1]. Launch and budget approval are still pending [A2]; the date in B1 is unapproved draft wording [B2], not a confirmed launch date [A3].”
A citation can point accurately to a sentence that is itself only a draft. Check what kind of source it is, not just whether the little number opens.
For a real brief, use your own source names and retain clickable citations in the provider when available. These A/B labels are teaching references, not live Gemini Notebook citation links.
Fix the conflicting claims
For this example, a defensible brief says: testing passed for eight pilot testers [A1]; budget and launch approval remain pending [A2]; 10 September appears only in an unapproved announcement [B1–B2]; the project lead will request approval on 8 September [A3]. Do not turn that request date into a launch date. Revise your draft until it preserves those distinctions, then complete every source-check item below. These are human review checks, not automatic fact scoring.
Save the checked brief with its sources
Copy the reviewed brief. Google documents Save to note for keeping a chat response with its original formatting and clickable citations; do this in the provider if available, then reopen the note and test a citation. AhaDo copied text is not that provider note. Preserve the source names and review date with any shared copy. Do not share the notebook until its source access and recipient permissions are clear. If the message is for another audience, use the linked stakeholder-update Task without changing the facts.
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Google says NotebookLM became Gemini Notebook in July 2026. This page keeps the NotebookLM link so older bookmarks still work. The steps below are based on public help pages reviewed 7 September 2026 in Shanghai (6 September UTC); they are instructions, not an account replay. The example is fictional, and AhaDo does not upload it or run Gemini Notebook for you.
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