Introducing GistBrief: Save any link, get the gist in seconds

Be honest: how many tabs do you have open right now?

If you're like most people who read for work, the answer is "too many." There's the article a colleague sent on Monday. The docs page you'll need next sprint. The long essay you'll read "this weekend." And somewhere in your bookmarks is a link you saved six months ago that would answer the question you're stuck on today, if only you could find it.

We save far more than we can read. Saving feels like progress, but the reading never happens, and the links go stale.

GistBrief exists to fix that.

What GistBrief does

GistBrief turns the links you save into short AI briefs with tags. Your reading list stops being a pile of guilt and becomes a library you can actually search.

You paste a link (or click a button in your browser). GistBrief:

1. Fetches the page and strips it down to clean, readable text, with no ads, cookie banners or sidebars.
2. Writes a brief: one or two sentences with the main point, a handful of key points, and why it matters.
3. Tags it, so related reading groups together on its own.
4. Files it in your private library, where you can search titles, summaries and the full text.

The result: you can decide in about thirty seconds whether a page deserves a full read. If it does, the original is one click away. If it doesn't, you still keep the key ideas.

Who it's for

GistBrief is built for people who read a lot and remember less than they'd like:

• Developers who keep tabs open for docs, changelogs and "I'll read this later" blog posts.
• Researchers and students collecting sources on a topic.
• Founders, PMs and marketers keeping up with their industry without losing their mornings to it.
• Anyone whose bookmarks folder has turned into a junk drawer.

Read less. Know more.

A good brief isn't a shorter article. It's a decision tool. Every GistBrief brief follows the same shape:

• The takeaway. The core point in plain words, first.
• Key points. Three to five concrete facts, arguments, numbers or steps from the page.
• Why it matters. Who the page is useful for and what they can do with it.

Briefs stick to what the page actually says. If a page is thin, the brief is shorter. It never pads.

No subscription, ever

We didn't want another monthly bill in your life. GistBrief runs on credits: you buy a pack once and spend it on saving links and generating briefs, at your own pace. Each button shows its cost before you click. If something fails, the credits come back to your balance on their own.

New accounts get free welcome credits, no card required, so you can see what GistBrief makes of your own reading list before you spend anything.

Your library stays yours

Your saved pages and briefs belong to your account and nobody else. You can export everything as a spreadsheet or Markdown whenever you like, and delete any item, or your whole account, at any time.

Try it with one link

The fastest way to understand GistBrief is to give it something you've been meaning to read.

Save your first link → It takes under a minute.

Stop re-reading. Start remembering.