Write in the note editor and find supporting citations from your library as you draft

Write your paper in the note editor. When you reach a claim that needs grounding, paste it into the chat and ask Anara to find the library passages that support it, then insert the citations into your note. Your words, your argument, your library as evidence. For researchers who write independently and use Anara for evidence support rather than text generation.

1. Describe the task

You write your own sentences. The argument is yours. What you want is the supporting passage from the right paper, cited at the right point in your note, without interrupting your writing flow to search for it manually.

Open a note in Anara and start writing. When you reach a claim you want to ground, paste it into the chat. Anara searches your uploaded papers for the passages that support it and inserts citation badges directly into the note. The note stays open and keeps building. The citations appear in place, linked to the original passage in the source PDF.

Here a PhD student in environmental studies is drafting a chapter on strategic environmental assessment, with a library of 90 papers uploaded. She writes her own analysis and uses Anara to find citations as she goes.

I have this note open for my chapter on SEA effectiveness in climate policy integration. I have just written this paragraph and I want to ground it in my library before moving on:

"Despite widespread adoption of SEA in national planning frameworks, the relationship between procedural compliance and actual integration of climate considerations into plans remains insufficiently explored. The gap between formal requirements and substantive outcomes reflects a broader tension in regulatory governance literature."

Search my library for passages that support the claim about the gap between procedural compliance and substantive outcomes. Return the most relevant passages with citations. Then insert citation badges for the two strongest matches at the end of the second sentence in my note.

2. Give Anara context

Required context

• A note open in your workspace for the document you are drafting.
• The specific sentence or paragraph you want to ground, pasted into the chat.

Optional context

• The specific folder or set of papers you want to search. Without this, Anara searches your entire library.
• A note on what kind of support you are looking for: a paper that confirms the claim, one that provides the empirical basis for it, or one that frames the concept the claim draws on.

3. What Anara creates

A list of matched passages from your library, each with a clickable citation badge linking to the source document and page. For passages you approve, Anara inserts citation badges into the note at the point you specify. The note updates in real time. The output is a cited draft: your words, supported by passages you can verify by clicking through from the note. The citations are for the reader who checks your sources and for your own audit before submission.

4. Follow-up prompts

Check whether a claim is actually supported

When you want a verdict before you commit to a citation.

Before inserting the citation, tell me whether the passage from the Morrison et al. paper actually backs up the claim about procedural compliance, or whether it is only tangentially related. Quote the passage and explain why it does or does not support the specific claim I wrote.

Find citations for the whole paragraph at once

When you want to check an entire paragraph rather than claim by claim.

Here is the full paragraph I just drafted. Search my library for passages that support each claim in it. Group the citations by claim and tell me which claims are well supported, which are only partially supported, and which have no support in my library.

Write the next paragraph using library sources

When you want to draft forward from library evidence rather than your own analysis.

I have finished the paragraph on procedural compliance. Now draft the next paragraph on what the literature says about factors that improve substantive SEA effectiveness. Use only papers in my library and cite every claim. Write in the same register as the paragraph I just finished.

5. Tricks, tips, and troubleshooting

How you word your prompt shapes what you get

Paste the specific sentence rather than describing it. Anara searches using the wording of the claim, and closer language returns more relevant passages. If you want citations inserted at a specific point in the note, name the location precisely: “after the second sentence in paragraph three” is more reliable than “somewhere in the paragraph.” For claims using technical vocabulary, semantic search finds conceptually similar passages; request keyword mode if you need the exact term matched.

Check the output against your own understanding

Citation badges link to the passage Anara matched, but semantic similarity does not mean the passage backs up your claim in the way you intend. Read the linked passage before you submit. A passage that discusses procedural compliance in a different regulatory context may appear as a match but does not support a claim about SEA in climate policy. The claim-verification workflow is the systematic version of this check: run it across the full chapter before submission.

What to do with the output next

When the note is complete, use the claim-verification workflow to run a final audit: paste each paragraph and ask Anara to confirm every cited claim is supported by the passage it links to. The note can be exported as DOCX or PDF. Formatted citations for your reference list can be generated for all cited papers using the citation-generation workflow.