If you want a tool to summarize web pages and explain things in your own words, ExplainThis is a good choice. This Chrome extension uses AI to help you understand the web by annotating and explaining terms with plain-English definitions. You can summarize an entire page with a click, and it offers real-time explanations, content summarization and personalized recommendations. That can be useful for research, work or just browsing the web.
Another good option is Briefy, an AI-based information extraction tool that turns complex information into structured summaries. Briefy is available as Chrome and Safari extensions and offers summaries in different formats like short paragraphs, detailed items, mindmaps and tables. You can interact with the content, link to sources and translate into different languages. Briefy is good for productivity and for getting more out of web pages.
If you want more advanced features, Briefy can summarize video chapters, email threads and PDFs in table and mind map formats. It also has a personal knowledge base for archiving and reviewing your summaries. It's good for students, researchers, professionals and content creators who want to get a better idea of what's going on with longer documents.
Last, BLUF offers answers, summaries and explanations of web pages. With an "Ask" feature to narrow down your query, a "Summarize" option to focus on the most important information, and an "Explain" option to try to break down complex ideas, BLUF is designed to get you the information you want as fast as possible. It's available as a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox, but other browsers are on the way.