Lesson 3 of 8
Deep Research & Canvas
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Some questions aren't a quick lookup — they're an afternoon of opening tabs, comparing, and taking notes. What if you handed the whole errand over and got back a tidy, sourced report?
Give it a topic, get a cited report
Deep Research takes a big question and does the legwork: it plans an approach, browses dozens of sources, and writes them up into an organised report with citations you can click to check. You give it the goal; it spends the minutes so you don't have to.
Deep Research trades minutes of autonomous browsing for a sourced report you'd have spent an afternoon assembling.
Canvas: edit the result in place
When the draft lands, you don't have to start over to fix one thing. Canvas opens the report in a side panel you can edit directly — tighten a sentence, restructure a section, adjust the tone — while the rest stays put. It works for writing and for code.
Canvas turns a one-shot answer into a document you and Gemini refine together — change the weak line, keep the good ones.
A cited report is only as good as its sources. Skim the citations before you trust a claim — Deep Research gathers fast, but it can still quote a shaky page.
The shape of it
- —Deep Research plans, reads many sources, and writes a cited report.
- —Canvas lets you edit that result in place — no full regenerate.
- —Great for big questions — but check the citations on anything that matters.
You ask Deep Research to "compare three commuter e-bikes and recommend one." What does it actually do?
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