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How to summarise documents with AI safely

Summarise long documents with free AI without leaking private data or trusting summaries blindly: redact, quote, verify.

Steps

  1. Remove private details from the document.
  2. Ask for a 5-bullet summary with a supporting quote for each bullet.
  3. Check three quotes against the original.
  4. Ask what the summary left out.
  5. Write your final summary in your own words.
  6. Keep the original for reference.

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Why this works

Every step ends with something you can check. AI speeds up the draft; your brief and your checks make the result good.