TLDR — Instant Summaries for Chrome: YouTube, PDFs, Articles

A few weeks ago I was looking for a Chrome extension that summarizes webpages ... fully expecting that this was a very solved problem. But I couldn't find a single one that was clean, fast, and worked well. Even the fancy new browsers (Arc) don't have this feature built-in. I was a little surprised ... and decided to build one for myself. I started using it all the time (biased, I'm sure...) and figured I'd package it up for others to use/try/give me feedback. Enter TLDR. It's really fast (says the proud parent). It's a sidebar for Chrome. It works for articles, YouTube videos and PDFs. And it handles 40 languages :) ps. It does not work in other Chromium-based browsers (like Arc) because the sidebar API tends to be flakier in those.

I have one request that could you add a way to adjust summary length?

I've tried so many summarizers but they're all wither clunky or inaccurate.

Really cool! I use it mostly for YouTube videos when I don't have time to watch the whole thing.

Love the option for YouTube summarising + Slovak translation

I was just recently looking for something like this. Will try it out!

Useful to cut through the SEO noise and fluff and get to the meats and potatoes.

Now transcription got a competitor as an extension, the idea is helpful as an extension. All the best for the launch.