TLDR — Instant Summaries for Chrome
Because 800 tabs is too many tabs
Spring Cleaning Week continues with a useful sidebar that I built for myself — I hope you’ll find it useful too.
I built a Chrome sidebar called TLDR that quickly summarizes webpages, YouTube videos and PDFs:
I first started working on this because I couldn’t find an extension (or new browser) that did webpage summaries well. I had assumed, after all this time of AI hype on every corner, that this basic problem was solved by now — but no existing tool I found was fast, cheap and simple. (Granted, that’s a tall order in any category.)
Enter TLDR. It’s a sidebar for Chrome that quickly summarizes webpages, YouTube videos and PDFs. And it works in 40 languages — meaning: you can read a webpage in French, for example, and instantly get its summary in English (or one of the other supported languages).
TLDR also seems to have cured my life-long tab overload problem. I would regularly average north of 800 open tabs (try not to judge, my laptop fan certainly did). Now, instead of queuing tabs “for later,” I skim them right away with TLDR, keeping only the very few* worth reading in full.
ps. If you like TLDR, you can help more people discover it by telling friends about it and leaving a review.
pps. Check out Spring Cleaning Week’s earlier post about Ice Cream Spoooons! 🥣
*I’m currently hovering at 62 tabs—huge improvement! A few of them: