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Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

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catchmeifyoucan wrote: post #119
phgn wrote: post #27

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Hey thank you! I'm really glad you like the extension. There actually is an "auto-activate" feature you can enable in the settings. Is this what you had in mind? Regarding mobile support, I know. I'm not sure how to handle mobile Chrome which doesn't allow extensions, but for Safari this should be possible. No guarantees when I can get to this though. See https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/529

Kind of - I don't even want to activate once. Can you run it in the background? And just run it by default (at least on websites you're confident about). I might forget it exists

I agree it's easy to forget about the extension, but being incorrect about what is an article turned out to be very annoying too.

Let's track this idea here: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/668

Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

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clnq wrote: post #116
phgn wrote: post #107

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Makes sense! I've actually had a similar feature request before: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/297 Have you tried some of the existing solutions mentioned in the ticket? I'm curious if they solve the problem for you, and if not, what Unclutter could do better.

I took time to try all four examples in the feature request. BlinkNotes didn't work for a technical reason, TLDR; it did not have AI capabilities - only crowdsourced summaries. TLDR This was good but seemed to use an NLP algorithm they call "AI." So instead of summarizing articles, it seems to produce a bullet list of the essential text fragments. This is in contrast to the much easier-to-read conversational style su…

Thank you for doing the research!

The big problem with current transformer-based models is the input limit. We'd probably need to split large articles and then summarize the summarizations of these chunks. And yeah I agree, Unclutter should work on any kind of article, not just on factual news.

Please let me know if you're still using Summari in a bit! They seem to focus on their hosted version, I'm curious why.

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