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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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Gary Fung
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...
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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.
Hi everyone 👋
I am delighted to share the latest update of my project 📚"TLDR This" with you guys here on ProductHunt.
Problem 🤔: We live in a world where we are constantly in a rush. We are rushing to work, rushing to school, rushing to gym, rushing to the grocery store etc. With the evolution of technology, everything is now on-demand and our lives are moving at the speed of light. We have more access to information than ever before. So much information exists today, that it is impossible to read all the content that matters to us.
My mission with this tool is to help busy folks absorb the most important and valuable content and to help them understand it in the easiest way possible.
Solution 💡: TLDR This is a tool that uses state-of-the-art AI models to help you get the gist of any text quickly, without having to go through all the paragraphs.
What's different in this version:
We have replaced our existing summarization models with two brand-new, state-of-the-art AI-powered models.
✅ Basic Summarizer (Key Sentences Summarization)
We have implemented one of the world's most advanced extractive summarization models that extracts the most important sentences from your text. And it's completely Free for you to use.
✅ Advanced Summarizer (Human-like Summarization)
This is the world's most advanced machine-learning model that can summarize text like a human, by ranking and paraphrasing your text.
✅ Other Improvements
We have also made some minor adjustments to the interface to make it more intuitive and easier to use.
Steps to get cracking -
1. Copy and paste either the URL or the text of the article you'd like summarized.
2. Press the "Summarize" button, and you are good to go.
TLDR This also comes with a chrome extension, allowing you to summarize any webpage at the click of a button.
How to use the chrome extension?
Just click the “tl;dr” button in Chrome's toolbar on a webpage which you'd like summarized and within a few seconds, you'll get the summary right there.
Please let me know if you have any feedback/suggestions.
Thanks a lot 🙏
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.
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
great tool for quick research, are you using pretrained AI models for summarization or training yourself if not a secret.
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 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...