Article summarizer that links every point to the page

Paste the link to an article and StudyPDF reads the page into your course, then writes a summary from it: a TL;DR, key points and a short prose summary. Each point carries a citation, and the citation opens the page it came from.

That is the difference from a summarizer that hands you a paragraph and nothing else. You can check the summary against the article in one click, which matters when the reading is assigned and you will be asked about it. You need a free account, no card.

Say your seminar assigns a long public article about how cities handle housing costs. You copy the link and paste it into your course. Once the page is read, it shows up in the course as a source.

Choose Summary and the top of the result is a TL;DR, followed by the key points, then prose that walks through the argument in order. A claim that matters, such as a number or a quote, has a citation next to it. Click it and the source page opens, so you can see where the sentence came from.

Choose Study guide instead and you get an overview, sections with the key concepts, self-check questions and takeaways. Both come from the same link.

If you searched for a website summarizer, a web page summarizer or a link summarizer, this is it. Any public page with enough text works: a news article, a blog post, a reference page, a long essay. StudyPDF reads one page per link.

A reading is rarely the end of the task. From the same article you can make a quiz or a deck of flashcards. Ask Bo what the author's main argument is and the answer comes with a citation that opens the page. The article also sits next to your slides and lectures, so a question about the week's topic can draw on all of them.

StudyPDF can only open a page that anyone can open. A page behind a login or a paywall comes back as a sign-in page, and StudyPDF tells you it could not read it instead of summarizing the login screen. Links to Google Docs, Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, SharePoint and similar services are not supported either. For those, save the content as a file and upload it.

Three more limits. One link is one page: StudyPDF does not crawl a whole site. A page with fewer than about 50 words is too thin to work with and is turned down. And there is no browser extension: you copy the link and paste it into StudyPDF.

A link that points straight to a long document is read only up to a point. Upload the file itself when you need all of it.

A summarizer box is the fastest way to shrink one article. You paste or link, you get a paragraph, and you are done in seconds. For a quick look at a news piece that is often enough, and many of them are free.

StudyPDF takes a step or two more and does a different job. It keeps the article in a course, cites the page for each point, answers follow-up questions from it and turns it into a quiz or flashcards. Use a box when you only need the gist. Use StudyPDF when you will be tested on the reading.

Paste the link to one reading and open the Summary. It takes a couple of minutes and a free account, no card. Free gives you about 4 materials a week.

If it helps, add the other readings and the slides to the same course. For files rather than links, the AI summarizer and the summary generator cover those, and a recorded lecture works from its YouTube link.