How to Follow Xiaomi's IFA Livestream and Note the Highlights

As someone who usually follows product launches and uses note-taking tools for information archiving, I tried running through the highlights of Xiaomi's IFA livestream from reservation to archiving. The background is that Lu Weibing said there would be a livestream at 20:30 Beijing time on September 3rd. IFA 2026 will be held in Berlin, Germany from September 4th to 8th. This time, Xiaomi has an exhibition booth of over 3,300 square meters with nearly 400 exhibits, and they will also share news about the Xiaomi 18 Fold, Xuanjie chip, CyberOne robot, and Xiaomi cars. IFA is the European consumer electronics show; livestream reservation means clicking ahead of time on the platform so the system reminds you before it starts. Archiving means saving the models, dates, and selling points you see into one place.

I compared two approaches. The first was watching manually: taking screenshots while watching on my phone and then recording them in notes. The second was setting up livestream reminders, building a simple table in note software while watching, and then using a batch summarization tool to compress long text into key points. My test results showed that manual viewing took about forty minutes, organizing took another ten-plus minutes, and screenshots often missed prices mentioned briefly. The second approach took about twenty minutes from creating the table to getting results, with fewer omissions, but it requires the tool to export plain text.

Watch the livestream first, don't just watch for fun

Step 1: Open Weibo or Xiaomi's official account, find Lu Weibing's preview for the September 3rd 20:30 livestream, and click reserve or remind. Step 2: Prepare an empty table with four column names: Exhibit, Specs, Date, Questions. Specs refer to the hardware specifications announced officially. Step 3: When the Xiaomi 18 Fold real device debut appears in the livestream, fill in "Fold, folding form factor, equipped with Xuanjie O3, launch on September 7".

When CyberOne's overseas debut appears, fill in "Robot, first overseas appearance, check active perception capabilities". Here is a pitfall: many people only record the name, not whether this is a teaser or the actual device. I made this mistake in my first version, treating spoilers as already announced prices. Later, I added a question in the questions column: "Will the price be announced on-site?", which made it more reliable.

Then organize, don't just stuff web content into notes

After watching, I used a batch processing tool like WorkBuddy to feed in livestream subtitles or official graphics/text, letting it extract products, dates, and uncertainties. This step saves reading time, not judgment. After organizing, you must verify manually because the tool might turn vague phrases like "good news about Xiaomi cars" into definite launch plans. This pitfall is common; auto-summarization most fears turning marketing slogans into facts.

Another pitfall is security. Some web content includes links, buttons, or even hidden scripts. I previously wrote about injection risks similar to innerHTML in AI outputs; directly pasting into pages or rich-text notes could be affected by malicious tags. So only paste plain text, put URLs in a separate column, and don't click suspicious short links. During my second run, I found a strange domain mixed into the summary; after deleting it, everything was normal.

After learning this, the next step is to try converting the same table into a local Markdown file (plain text format), then use an open-source repository for version control to see which information changed after the launch event.

The core point is simple: chasing launch events isn't about taking more screenshots; truly understanding it means separating teasers, actual devices, and items pending confirmation.