[feature request] add article summary

[WHiZSTA]

Something that would be very valuable on articles is a summary to quickly get the important gist of it. This would allow us to quickly tell if the article is even applicable to what we want information on/to read about.

The summary coupled with the estimated reading time you already provide, would then allow the user to make an informed decision on if we want to read said article or not.

I think this would compliment the readability functions, the table of contents, and the user notes etc well for overall article understanding and readability.

After checking the summary, we can click on the table of contents to go to the important spots etc. This might also give you an ability to add more detailed items to the ToC or allow jumping from the summary to those specific spots in the article, in a similar way to how you do currently with the ToC(which only some sites/articles have).

There are already some summary extensions out there, but none that integrate with a reader/readability functions like yours.

Some good examples are:
TLDR This ( Gives decent bullet pointed summaries )

BlinkNotes ( SUPER lightweight.. Has many user configurable options for generating the summaries )

Summari ( The best at making summaries including most all relevant info, but they can seem overly long at times )

Open TLDR/TLDR; it ( Open Source/Free Backend System.. It's auto-generated summaries aren't the best, but also allows user-submitted ones)
TLDR; it GitHub

[phgn0]

Interesting idea, thank you for linking the examples!

What integration with Unclutter would be most useful for you? Should it show the article summary in a modal before showing the main text, or be visible on the side in place of the ToC?

Are you already using one of these extensions in combination with the Unclutter reader mode?

[phgn0]

Hey @WHiZSTA are you still interested in this feature?

[phgn0]

It seems like out of these options, Summari works the best. Here's more context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33747036