The Vagueness of Copilot Notebooks

What is it in terms of eDiscovery?

Whiteboard with items taped to it and lines connecting all of the items

I recently began testing Copilot Notebooks at work, and it’s an interesting tool. The idea is that you collect up to 20 “references” from your world data and create a notebook that you can ground Copilot on, and then use that notebook to glean information and responses based on only those reference documents.

It’s a way to create mini-agents for people who find agents to be a bit too technical.

It also features a one-click option to generate an audio summary of your references, which sounds like a podcast of two people discussing the content of your references.

I can see many scenarios where this will be useful.

Of course, the questions I immediately had for this newsletter were:

• Where is the information stored?

• Is it discoverable?

This is a little more nuanced than I expected, so let’s get into it:

First, let’s define what data we may be looking for:

• The notebook itself.

• List of references. (Are they attachments?)

• Copilot interactions within the notebook.

• Pages created in the Notebook.

• Audio Summaries.