For readers, not just meetings

The AI Note Taker for Your Reading List

Paste a link and get 150 words, five bullets and one quote in ten seconds. An AI note taker for everything you meant to read.

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What you get

Notes you would actually write yourself

Paste any link

A longform essay, a research paper, a ten-thousand-word blog post. If it has a URL, it can be read and noted.

A fixed note format

150 words of prose, five clean bullets and one line worth keeping. Every note looks the same, so your library stays easy to scan.

Ten seconds, not ten minutes

The page is fetched, stripped of ads and sidebars, and read in full. You decide whether the original deserves your time.

A library, kept on purpose

Save the notes worth keeping, tag them, search them later. No social graph, just a better commonplace book.

Export in any format

Markdown, JSON or plain text the moment you receive it. Pipe it into Obsidian, a Google Doc or another model.

Private by default

We do not sell your URL history and we do not train on what you save. The notes you keep are visible only to you.

How it works

Three steps, no setup

There is nothing to install and nothing to connect. You paste, it reads, you decide.

1

Paste the link

Drop in any URL. A longform essay, a New Yorker profile, a paper you promised yourself you would get to.
2

The AI does the reading

We fetch the page, strip the cookie banners and unrelated newsletters, and read every word the author actually wrote.
3

You read the essence

Get a short summary, five bullets and one quote. Keep it, tag it, or open the original if it earns the longer read.

The problem

Most notes are written after the fact

Taking notes while you read breaks the reading. Taking them afterwards means you rarely do. An AI note taker closes that gap: the first pass is done for you, in a consistent shape, and you spend your attention on the parts that matter. It does not replace reading. It protects the reading that matters from the reading that does not.

First-pass notes in about ten seconds
Same structure every time
Original link always visible

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The library

Keep the notes, drop the pile

A read-later folder grows because saving is easy and reading is not. With notes attached to each link, the pile becomes a small library you can actually search. Tag a summary, file it in a folder, and find it again when the idea becomes useful. Pro adds folders, tags and export to Obsidian, Notion and Readwise.

Folders and tags on Pro
Search across everything you saved
Export to Obsidian, Notion and Readwise

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Meetings instead?

Need notes from calls, not links?

To be clear about scope: aisummary reads the web, it does not listen to audio. If your pile is recordings rather than articles, a meeting recorder is the better fit, and we have written up the one we would pick. The two tools solve different halves of the same problem, and plenty of people use both.

aisummary: links, articles, essays, papers
Meeting recorders: calls and transcripts
Different inputs, same goal: fewer things to reread

Read the meeting notes page

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Where it fits

Reading notes vs meeting notes vs by hand

Three ways to get notes out of long material. They suit different inputs.

Question	aisummary	Meeting recorders	Notes by hand
What it reads	Links, articles, essays, papers	Calls and meetings	Whatever you attend or read
Time to a first note	About ten seconds per link	Minutes after the call ends	As long as the reading took
Note format	150 words, five bullets, one quote	Transcript and action items	Your own words
Export	Markdown, JSON, text; Obsidian, Notion, Readwise on Pro	Varies by tool	Wherever you type
Records people	No	Yes	No
Your saves used for training	No	Varies by tool	No

Pricing

Two plans, nothing hidden

The free plan is the trial. Pro is billed monthly and refunded within seven days if you regret it.

Free

$0 forever

for readers who come back once or twice a day

Ten summaries a day
Web app, full quality
Copy as Markdown or JSON
Source link always visible
Your summaries stay private

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Pro

$8 /mo

for researchers, writers and anyone with too many tabs

Unlimited summaries
Folders and tags, a real library
API access, same shape as the web
Export to Obsidian, Notion and Readwise
Summaries in any language you ask for
Priority model, slightly better quality

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FAQ

Common questions

What is an AI note taker, exactly?

An AI note taker turns something long into something short you can keep. Some tools do it for recorded meetings. aisummary does it for the web: you paste a link, it reads the page, and you get 150 words, five bullets, and one line worth quoting. Same idea, different source.

Does aisummary record meetings or calls?

No. It reads links, articles, essays and papers, not audio. If you need a transcript of a call, a meeting recorder is the right tool. Our notetaking AI page on meetings covers that case. Here the question is what to do with the 40 tabs you meant to read.

How is this different from pasting an article into a chatbot?

A chatbot gives you a reply in a thread that scrolls away. aisummary returns the same structure every time, keeps the source link visible, and saves the result to a library you can search, tag and export. The format is fixed on purpose, so notes from different weeks still look alike.

What do I get on the free plan?

Ten summaries a day at full quality, with copy as Markdown or JSON, the source link always visible, and private summaries. There is no card to enter and no trial clock. For most people reading a few long pieces a day, ten is plenty.

What does Pro add for $8 a month?

Unlimited summaries, folders and tags, API access, export to Obsidian, Notion and Readwise, a priority model, and summaries in any language you ask for. It is billed monthly, cancel anytime, and refunded within seven days if you regret it.

Is my reading list private?

Yes. Summaries you keep are visible to you and nobody else. aisummary does not sell your URL history and does not train on what you save. That is written into the Terms, not just the marketing.

Can I take the notes somewhere else?

Every summary exports as Markdown, JSON or plain text the moment you receive it. Pro adds direct export to Obsidian, Notion and Readwise. If you ever leave, your notes leave with you, in a format any editor can open.

Read the essence first

Ten summaries a day, free. No card, no trial clock, no notification dot.