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Should focus on summarizing existing notes that nobody is reading instead of generating more noise.
by m_ke 4y ago
Should focus on summarizing existing notes that nobody is reading instead of generating more noise.
- brap 4y agoYes 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.
- aliqot 4y agotitle, subtitle, and thesis statement from each paragraph.
- Waterluvian 4y agoThis 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.
- lma21 4y agoThis is done by autotldr[1] which is powered by smmry[2]. Smmry is pretty neat actually ! [1] http://autotldr.io/ http://autotldr.io/ [2] https://smmry.com/ https://smmry.com/
- return_to_monke 4y agoSadly it seems to fail bad on things that aren't new articles. Try for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming/ as an input to smmry - you don't get the idea
- criley2 4y agoI 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.
- leetrout 4y agoIt exists in various forms and you are not the only one that desires this. https://tldrthis.com/ https://tldrthis.com/ https://www.summari.com/products/chrome https://www.summari.com/products/chrome Etc etc
- superamit 4y agoWe're testing something that addresses this need right now. Email me if you wanna try the beta (amit @ sudowrite)
- valyagolev 4y agowould be amazing to have a suggestion like "looks like whatever you're writing has already been written in this workspace"
- cocoricamo 4y ago> ...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]
- TeMPOraL 4y agoThis sounds like a beginning of a sci-fi mystery story. Imagine this happening, but on a personal workspace with single user.
- neovive 4y agoI noticed Grammarly just entered the AI summarization space for email. https://www.grammarly.com/recap https://www.grammarly.com/recap. I haven't tested it yet, but saw the Gmail banner last week.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoI 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".
- sixstringtheory 4y agoThis 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.
- noobermin 4y agoNow middle managers can create even more busy work while doing even less actual effort. Of course no one will lay them off for that.