Gist: Hyperfocused reading for ADHD brains

If you are suffering from information overload, Gist is for you. If you have 47 unread tabs open right now, Gist is for you. If your appetite for learning exceeds your time budget, Gist is for you. Gist distills complicated research, papers, legal opinions, etc. into layered summaries you can grok in seconds — then tells you why the author is wrong, and why they might be right anyway. - Complex → Comprehensible - Boring → Interesting - Slow → Fast ⸻ ONE CLICK. LAYERED UNDERSTANDING. - First slide: One sentence — the irreducible core of the entire piece - Swipe: Context, complications, evidence, counter-arguments - Stop anytime: You control the depth - No new tabs: Gist overlays the page you’re reading The original is always there. Gist is a pre-read — helping you decide whether to invest the time, and priming your mind to comprehend it if you do. ⸻ ARGUMENT. COUNTER-ARGUMENT. STEELMAN. Most summarizers give you AI slop. Gist gives you PhD-level frameworks: - Stories → Dramatic structure: situation, complication, question, resolution - Arguments → Logical structure: thesis, evidence, counter-argument, synthesis ⸻ THINK DEEPER, FASTER For analytical content, Gist stress-tests ideas: - Counter-Argument: The strongest possible case against the author’s position - Steelman: An even stronger version of the author’s argument You don’t just learn what the author thinks — you expand your mind. It’s a graduate school seminar in your browser, on-demand. ⸻ GET THE GIST OF ANYTHING - Articles: Any webpage—news, blogs, essays, research, documentation - PDFs: Academic papers, reports, white papers - YouTube: Transcripts for lectures, interviews, tutorials - Google Docs: Your documents or shared files If you can read it in Chrome, you can get the Gist of it. ⸻ SHARE THE GIST Share the Gist of anything as a link. - Recipient doesn’t need Gist installed - Recipient doesn’t need to sign up - They click, they see the same Gist you saw (with a link to the original) Share the Gist of a 40-page arXiv PDF in a Slack message. Send the Gist of a 2-hour YouTube podcast over WhatsApp. ⸻ DESIGNED FOR PRIVACY Nothing leaves your device until you take action. - Suggestions: Runs entirely on-device. No data sent to servers. No browsing history tracked - When you click: Source material goes to our servers for processing. We cache the Gist and delete the original Full policy: gist.is/privacy ⸻ WHAT GIST IS NOT Gist does not replace reading. It replaces: - Reading things you don’t remember - Re-reading things you should have understood the first time - Never reading things that sit in tabs until guilt forces you to close them ⸻ READ MORE. THINK DEEPER. LEARN FASTER.