Draft a long formal document with Anara alongside in the note editor

Open a note for your report or brief and work through it with Anara section by section. Ask for a draft, push back, refine, move to the next section. Your library stays available throughout for citations. The note builds in real time as you write with an AI partner who tracks the whole document. For professionals who produce long structured documents on a recurring schedule.

1. Describe the task

A twenty-page report, a policy brief, a clinical assessment, a cabinet note. The blank note opens and the scope is already bigger than a chat can hold. You need a partner that stays with the whole document while you work through it section by section.

The note editor is that surface. You outline the document, ask Anara to draft a section, read what it produced, push back on the framing, ask for a revision, and keep going. The note builds as you go. Your library stays in scope the whole time, so a citation you need in section three is still available in section fourteen without a re-upload.

Here a government legal professional is drafting a cabinet submission on telecommunications regulation, working through a seven-section document over several sessions, each section thirty to eighty messages deep.

I'm drafting a cabinet submission on proposed amendments to the Telecommunications Act. The document has seven sections: Executive Summary, Background and Context, Legal Framework, Stakeholder Positions, Risks and Mitigations, Recommendations, and Next Steps. I have a library of prior submissions, the current Act, and consultation responses uploaded.

Start with the Executive Summary. Keep it to 300 words, Westminster policy-brief tone, no bullet points, written for a minister who has thirty seconds. The key message is that the proposed amendments close a consumer protection gap without expanding the regulator's mandate. Draft it, then wait for my feedback before moving to the next section.

2. Give Anara context

Required context

• A note open in your library for the document you’re drafting.
• The document structure: section headings, length targets, audience, tone.

Optional context

• Prior examples of the same document type in your library (last year’s version, a peer’s submission). Anara matches house style.
• Source materials relevant to the document (consultation responses, reference legislation, cited reports). Anara pulls citations directly as you draft.

3. What Anara creates

A section draft, then another section, then another. Each one respects the structure you defined, cites from your library where relevant, and holds the voice from previous sections so the document reads as one piece. The note serves as the working document you push back on, revise, and keep building. By the end of the session you have a structured draft ready for the formal review process, not a transcript of ideas to assemble later.

4. Follow-up prompts

Push back on a draft

When the first pass is close but not there.

The executive summary leans too hard on the regulatory gap framing and doesn't emphasise the consumer protection angle enough. Rewrite it so consumer protection is the lead, and keep the regulatory gap as the mechanism rather than the headline.

Move to the next section with continuity

When you’re ready to advance and want the document to hold together.

The executive summary is good. Move to Background and Context. Keep the same tone. Reference the 2019 amendments and the two consultation rounds we just cited. Target 600 words, no bullet points.

Check the whole draft against your library

When the document is nearly complete and you want every claim grounded.

Go through the full draft we've built and flag any claim that needs a citation I haven't provided. For each one, search my library and suggest the best supporting source. Where the library doesn't cover it, tell me what I need to find.

5. Tricks, tips, and troubleshooting

How you word your prompt shapes what you get

State the structure upfront. A seven-section document with defined lengths, audience, and tone produces a coherent draft. “Help me with a policy brief” produces generic output. Name the document type (cabinet submission, 10-K filing, patient assessment, DSF statement) so Anara matches the conventions your readers expect. Section-by-section is faster than asking for the full document at once, because you can catch a wrong framing before it propagates.

Check the output against your own understanding

Anara holds your voice and structure well but doesn’t know your reader the way you do. You know that your minister reads the first two sentences and the recommendations, that your partner signs off only after checking the footnotes, that your client expects the audit findings in a specific order. Correct the draft where it misses those conventions, and Anara carries the correction forward.

What to do with the output next

Export the note to DOCX when the draft is structurally complete. The final review pass, the stakeholder sign-offs, and any formatting to house template happens outside Anara. The value Anara adds is in the hours you otherwise spend staring at a blank section header. Use the citation audit follow-up before export to catch any claim that still needs grounding.