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Summarise long documents honestly
Upload or paste the real document — a lecture PDF, a policy, a paper — and ask for a summary in the order of the document's own sections, with the three things you must remember and the page each came from. A summary of a document the tool has not read is a guess wearing the clothes of knowledge.
The concept
Upload or paste the REAL document — a lecture PDF, a policy, a paper — and ask for a summary in the order of the document's own sections, with the three things you must remember and the page each came from. A summary of a document the tool has not actually read is a guess wearing the clothes of knowledge, and it reads exactly like the truth.
The mistake is asking a chat tool to summarise a document you only described instead of supplied. It will produce a fluent summary of what such a document usually says — not of yours. Upload the file, or paste the text, and check one cited fact against the page.
I have uploaded a 40-page lecture PDF.
Task: Summarise it in the order of its OWN sections.
Format: For each section, 2 sentences. Then list the 3 facts I must
remember, and give the page number each one came from.
Avoid: Adding anything that is not in the document. If something is
unclear, say so instead of filling the gap.Worked example
Summarise this PDF in the order of its own sections. List the 3 facts I must remember, and for each one give the page number it came from.
Your practice task
Take one long PDF you have been avoiding, get the summary and the three facts, then check one fact against the page it cites.
Do this before moving on. Reading a solution teaches the shape of it; typing it teaches you.
Key takeaway
Upload or paste the REAL document — a lecture PDF, a policy, a paper — and ask for a summary in the order of the document's own sections, with the three things you must remember and the page each came from.
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