Citations & answer coverage

How Notebooker grounds every answer in your sources - clickable citations, plus a coverage meter that shows which documents actually informed the answer.

Ask Notebooker a question and the answer isn’t just prose - every claim carries a citation that links back to the exact source, note, or insight it came from. Coverage indicators go a step further and show you how much of the retrieved material actually made it into the answer, so you can judge an answer instead of trusting it blindly.

Citations

Inline citations render as numbered references ([1], [2]) with a reference list under the answer. Click any of them to open the cited source, note, or insight and read the original in full.

Citations appear in:

  • Chat - grounded in the sources you selected into the conversation’s context.
  • Ask - grounded in whatever the automatic searches retrieved across your whole library.
  • Wiki creations - every topic article the Wiki creator writes cites the sources it drew from, as footnotes.

Answer coverage

The common failure of research assistants is silent: an answer sounds complete, but the model only used two of your twelve documents. Notebooker surfaces this instead of hiding it.

In Ask - the final answer ends with a coverage strip:

  • “Cited 4 of 7 documents consulted” - how many retrieved documents the answer actually cites.
  • A clickable “Consulted, not cited” list - documents the searches retrieved that didn’t make it into the answer. If something you expected is in this list, the model saw it and chose not to use it. If it’s absent entirely, the searches never retrieved it - rephrase the question or ask about that document directly.

In Chat - each answer shows how many of the items in your selected context it cites. A low count on a broad question is a signal to narrow the question or trim the context selection.

Getting better-grounded answers

  • Small context beats big context. Chat sends your selected content in full; a focused selection gives the model less room to wander.
  • Ask for citations explicitly when writing custom prompts - e.g. “cite the specific source for each claim.”
  • Check the not-cited list before acting on an answer that’s supposed to synthesize everything.