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TLDR This — Automatically summarize any article or webpage in a click
TLDR This is a web app (+ chrome extension) that helps you summarize any piece of text into concise, easy to digest content so you can free yourself from information overload.
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Definitely a good idea! I'll check the accuracy out on the article I am currently finalizing.
Do you have any info about the current accuracy?
@baptiste_ncls Hi there, the accuracy really depends on the kind of article you are summarizing. It works great with news articles and other articles with one core topic.
This is like the modern day spark notes. What a tool this would have been for high school 😂 Love the product, will most certainly use
I get the idea of this prodcut. What I afraid of is that we (as civilisation) will get from articles to short messages and lose such information like context or author intentions. In other words, not every article requires having shorter summary. How do you solve problem to recognise if article may be shorten without a harm for a reader in uderstanding what he or she reads?
For those looking to streamline an entire search flow, so you swipe through whole summaries of search results. There's an app for that: https://medium.com/wonderswipe/r...
Hey @samanyou_garg This is amazing! @askgauthamp referred me to this tool. I'm someone who does a lot of reading on a daily basis and TLDR This has saved so much of my time
@askgauthamp @chameli_kuduva Glad to hear that. Please let me know if you have any feature requests or suggestions.
I love this idea! I'm curious to try it out after what people said about it having varying levels of success with different kinds of articles. I'm interested to see because it would be a total game changer!
great tool for quick research, are you using pretrained AI models for summarization or training yourself if not a secret.
Just tried it on a medium article https://medium.com/the-ascent/ho... . Seems like the quality of the summary is not quite useful at this point even with the AI one. Maybe you might want to specify which kind of articles works best with the current model, rather than generalize it for all types of article. Just my 2 cents, looking forward for the improvement!
@bayu_wahyuadi Hey, thanks for letting me know. It usually works best with articles which have one core topic. Doesn't always give the best results with tutorial/listicle type articles.
But, yes I will fine-tune the algorithm for those specific types of articles as you mentioned.
@bayu_wahyuadi @samanyou_garg Is her maybe a way to have your engine identify the core topic, and if there is more than one have the result be flagged? (as in 'caution with interpretation of this content')
Great idea! Reading a lot of articles while working, I always wish for something like this. Now it becomes a reality! Keep up the good work, guys.
I tested it a little bit and I found that the summary wasn't that to-the-point, especially when reading technical articles.
@qwertzxc1478963 Yes, it doesn't always give the best results for technical and tutorial like articles. It seems to work the best for news articles and those with one core topic.
I suggest you build a way to measure the summarization accuracy, and try improving your model based on this metric. I tried it now on this article, summary is not as useful as I'd like it to be. https://stratechery.com/2015/agg...
Any updates on the Chrome extension being flagged as malware? Sold it to 3rd-party, perhaps? No news and no response from the creator that I could get or find.
@embql The extension has been removed from Chrome Store as of now coz we are working on some updates but we will put it back up soon.
I am going to test it... Good luck with the launch..
Btw the blond girl animation on the video is horrible guys ;)
I tried it on a few articles but the results were really what i could have gotten from just reading the headline. I would love it if this could summarize the main points/takeaways of the article. I would pay hundreds of dollars a year for a feature like that as it would save me so much time. I'll keep this around and try it periodically. I hope you continue to improve it.
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