HACKER Q&A
📣 ryanSrich

What apps or browser extensions do you use to read articles quicker?


I often find that at the end of each day I've saved roughly 5-20 articles. I keep them in my Roam graph, but I rarely go back and read them.

The issue isn't that I have a lack of quality links. That's more the problem than anything. Instead of hoarding these and never actually reading them, I was wondering if there are tools out there that can help me digest articles more quickly? I think that's why I don't read them. I just don't have the time.

There seems to be a lot of mobile apps that attempt to solve this problem, but I've found their summaries lacking quite a bit.

I've also tried apps like Speechify that turn articles into audio. It works fine, but it still suffers from robotic like interpretation, and it's still the entire article, often taking longer to listen to than read.

Does anyone use a tool, technique, chrome extension, etc. to read more articles during the day?


  👤 howmayiannoyyou Accepted Answer ✓
I use: smmry.com and www.whatboard.app respectively. The former obviously to summarize & the latter to dashboard articles using their chrome extension.