For readers, not inboxes

The AI Personal Assistant for Your Reading List

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

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What it does

One job, done the same way every time

Paste any link

A longform essay, a research paper, a ten-thousand-word blog post. If it has a URL, the assistant can read it for you.

A fixed summary format

150 words of prose, five clean bullets and one line worth keeping. Every result has the same shape, 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 then decide whether the original deserves your time.

A library, kept on purpose

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

Export anywhere

Markdown, JSON or plain text as soon as you receive it. Pipe it into Obsidian, a document or another model.

Private by default

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

How it works

Three steps, nothing to set up

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

  1. 1

    Paste the link

    Drop in any URL: a profile you saved last month, a paper you promised yourself you would get to, a newsletter issue.

  2. 2

    The assistant reads

    We fetch the page, remove cookie banners and unrelated links, and read every word the author actually wrote.

  3. 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

Your assistant should read, not just schedule

Most AI assistants are built around errands: book the meeting, answer the email, set the reminder. Useful, but they leave the biggest time sink untouched. The forty tabs you opened to read later never get read, because reading is slow and saving is easy. An assistant for reading closes that gap. It does the first pass, in a consistent shape, so your attention goes to the few pages that deserve it.

  • First pass done in about ten seconds
  • Same structure on every summary
  • The original link is always visible
Desk with a laptop full of open tabs, a sticky-note pad and a phone
The library

Keep the summaries, drop the pile

A read-later folder grows because nothing in it has a cost. With a short summary attached to each link, the pile turns into a small library you can search. Tag an item, 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, plus an API for people who prefer scripts to buttons.

  • Folders and tags on Pro
  • Search across everything you saved
  • Export to Obsidian, Notion and Readwise
Hands holding a tablet with a short summary next to a printed long article
Scope

What it will not do for you

To be clear about scope: aisummary reads the web. It does not manage your calendar, answer your email, book travel or listen to calls. If those are your daily friction, a scheduling or inbox assistant is the better fit, and plenty of people use one alongside this. The two solve different halves of the same problem, which is having too much to deal with and too little time.

  • aisummary: links, articles, essays, papers
  • Inbox and calendar assistants: mail and meetings
  • Different inputs, same goal: fewer things to handle by hand
Wooden shelf with sorted notebooks and index card boxes in a quiet library
Where it fits

Reading assistant vs inbox assistant vs by hand

Three ways to get through a heavy week. They suit different kinds of work.

QuestionaisummaryInbox and calendar assistantsBy hand
What it handlesLinks, articles, essays, papersEmail, meetings, remindersWhatever you have time for
Time to a first resultAbout ten seconds per linkSeconds to minutes per taskAs long as the reading takes
Output150 words, five bullets, one quoteDrafts, events, to-do itemsYour own notes
Needs access to your accountsNo, only the link you pasteYes, inbox and calendarNo
ExportMarkdown, JSON, text; Obsidian, Notion, Readwise on ProVaries by toolWherever you type
Your saves used for trainingNoVaries by toolNo
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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Questions

Common questions

What is an AI personal assistant?
Most people mean software that handles errands in natural language: scheduling, email replies, reminders. aisummary covers one narrower job. It is a personal assistant for reading. You paste a link, it reads the page, and you get 150 words, five bullets and one quote. It does not touch your inbox or calendar.
Can aisummary manage my calendar or email?
No, and we would rather say so now. It has no access to your inbox, calendar or contacts, and it does not send anything on your behalf. If scheduling and replies are your bottleneck, a calendar or email assistant is the right tool. If the bottleneck is a pile of unread links, that is where aisummary helps.
How is this different from asking a chatbot to summarize a link?
A chatbot answers in a thread that scrolls away, in whatever shape it feels like that day. 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 fixed format is deliberate, so notes from different weeks still look alike.
How long does a summary take?
About ten seconds for a typical article. Very long documents, such as a forty-page report, take a little longer. The original link stays next to the summary, so you can open the full text whenever the short version suggests it is worth your time.
Is the free plan really free?
Yes. The free plan gives you ten summaries a day at full quality, with copy as Markdown or JSON. There is no card to enter and no trial clock. Pro costs $8 a month and adds unlimited summaries, folders, tags, API access and exports. It is refunded within seven days if you regret it.
Does it work with paywalled or logged-in pages?
It reads what a public visitor can read. If a page sits behind a login or a hard paywall, the tool only sees the part that is open, and it will tell you so rather than invent the rest. For those pages, paste the text itself instead of the link.
Do you store or train on the links I save?
We do not sell your URL history and we do not train on what you save. Summaries you keep are visible only to you. You can delete any item, or your whole library, from your account at any time.
Can I use it with my other tools?
Yes. Output is available as Markdown, JSON or plain text, so it pastes cleanly into a notes app or a document. Pro adds direct export to Obsidian, Notion and Readwise, and an API that returns the same shape as the web app.

Start with the pile you already have

Paste one link you have been avoiding. The free plan needs no card, and the library stays yours.

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