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A gist 'filter' or something would be easier, just on all the time, instead of cut and paste the url. easy if it were a pop up that kicks in automatically everytime you go to a new web site or hover over a link - could fade out after 5 seconds if not hovered over ?

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Agreed granolagirl. Just a masking of the site should Gist be turned on, with a quick link or click away feature to the source.

First tests are pretty damn impressive though. Gist'd (is that even the right verb?) a couple of wiki pages and found the summary quite useful, and surprisingly, grammatically correct. Will stay tuned for sure.

:) it's grammatically correct because @gist uses an extraction based strategy. (ie, an existing representative sentence). If you want an abstract summary (ie, a new representative sentence), best to ask a human for now.

Yup. We'll release a chrome plugin shortly that provides the quick gist of whatever page you happen to be on, so as to avoid having to actually go to the site and submit a url. More convenient for the regular user.

In addition, we'll release the api so that people can build their own tools if they wish.

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