QuickGist

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  QuickGist

Inspiration

I have too many emotional support tabs. When doing a deep dive, I often end up opening hundreds of tabs, just in case they are relevant. Then I struggle to find them later. Do you relate? To solve this, I built QuickGist, so I never have to open tabs I won't read.

What it does

QuickGist opens previews of links right on page you're browsing, and gives you a quick summary. The previews are interactive, so you can scroll, zoom, play videos, etc. before committing to a longer relationship with that tab in your browser bar.

How we built it

QuickGist uses Chrome's new experimental summarization APIs.

Challenges / Accomplishments

This project would have been a lot easier if you could open a preview in an iframe. But most websites don't like being in iframes, and have various CSP headers that make this approach untenable. QuickGist has to use some clever extension window management to get preview windows to track the right spot in your page, but it looks pretty cool when it finally works!

What we learned

On device AI models are finally getting usable!

What's next for QuickGist

While on device models can provide some quick info over small text, hooking in a remote model with a larger context length for deep dives will allow us to surface even more helpful text from within links.

Built With

• typescript