the map / step 2, find
AI search answers a question with a written summary and shows where each part came from, instead of a list of ten links. You still check the sources. It just saves you the first hour.
Research notebooks go one step further. You give them your own documents and they only answer from those, with page references.
checked sep 2026. we say what each one is bad at on purpose.
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Open NotebookLM ↗Open Perplexity, paste this in, and change the parts in brackets. That is the whole first step.
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copy it, paste it into the tool, change the parts in [brackets]
What are the main differences between [two things you are choosing between]? Give me a short table, say which is better for [your situation], and show the source for every claim.
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