Yes please.

I’ve been toying with the idea of making a browser extension that summarizes pages into ~5 bullets, <20 words each. And maybe a picture.

Someone please make this.

Too lazy to read walls of text. Too lazy to build the extension myself.

This already exists on Reddit as a bot that says “the best I did was reducing this article by 87%, here it is…”

I imagine you just need to wrap that in a browser plug-in. Or maybe already exists.

This is done by autotldr[1] which is powered by smmry[2]. Smmry is pretty neat actually !

[1] http://autotldr.io/

[2] https://smmry.com/

Sadly it seems to fail bad on things that aren't new articles.

Try for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming/ as an input to smmry - you don't get the idea

I mean, it works ok. I think the issue here is structured documents like that wikipedia article. If you used smmry on each section, leaving the headers and structure alone, you'd probably get a far more 'coherent' result, and it's not surprising that the tool is built for "single block" content.

It would probably not be very hard to build a mediawiki smmrly extension that does just that.

It exists in various forms and you are not the only one that desires this.

https://tldrthis.com/

https://www.summari.com/products/chrome

Etc etc

title, subtitle, and thesis statement from each paragraph.

We're testing something that addresses this need right now. Email me if you wanna try the beta (amit @ sudowrite)

would be amazing to have a suggestion like "looks like whatever you're writing has already been written in this workspace"

> ...I can't take it anymore, the guilt is eating me. I've had an affair with your wife...

[looks like whatever you're writing has already been written in this workspace]

This sounds like a beginning of a sci-fi mystery story. Imagine this happening, but on a personal workspace with single user.

I noticed Grammarly just entered the AI summarization space for email. https://www.grammarly.com/recap. I haven't tested it yet, but saw the Gmail banner last week.

I found that in my current job I don't so much need a summarization service, but a translation service; what does the writer actually want me to know and to do? I got an email the other day with a lot of brain farts, grainy screenshots, and I had to read it five times just to boil it down to "change this tracked URL to that one".

This sort of hits on what I was thinking when I saw this feature: already, nobody reads anything. And now, nobody has to write anything either.

Now middle managers can create even more busy work while doing even less actual effort.

Of course no one will lay them off for that.