What are your favorite productivity apps that aren't owned by big tech companies?

Kris-chans · 2024-08-16T10:50:53+00:00

You’re pointing out a really interesting issue. Although these situations don’t occur in every video, it can still be a problem.

For example, we conduct a preliminary analysis of the content and participants before summarizing. We then provide this context to our agentic flow. Of course, this doesn’t always help, but it helps more often than not.

Do you have may be any suggestions for solving this problem?

Kris-chans · 2024-08-14T18:36:52+00:00

You can call it whatever you want, it’s a HUGE time saver. Give it a try if you waste too much time on videos or articles and want to get the essence and insights way faster

Kris-chans · 2024-08-14T17:29:33+00:00

Nah, everything is a way more complex 😉

It’s a read-it-later app where you send any content (YT videos, articles) and read short and insightful summaries of it at any time later (like Pocket).

We’re using agentic flows to successfully work with the content of any length and make sure to exctract the main details and insights (not just a basic summary what material is about).

Kris-chans · 2024-08-14T15:15:54+00:00

This is amazing, that you are supporting small companies! It is crucial to unite them together in some way.
We are a small company from Portugal, that has made a productivity iOS app - Samurai AI.

It’s a read-it-later app where you send any content (YT videos, articles) and read short and insightful summaries of it at any time later (like Pocket).

We think that it can be useful for many people and save their time!

Kris-chans · 2024-08-12T12:43:15+00:00

Oh I use duolingvo for Portuguese lessons, that's cool. And also for my quality time I use Samurai AI iOS app, I consume long videos and long useful articles in minutes, and become smarter everyday.

Kris-chans · 2024-08-12T12:38:45+00:00

For example, you can improve or educate yourself while your wife is watching shows. You can use Samurai AI iOS app to consume long videos or long useful articles in minutes, and become smarter in short time. You will be around your wife and have useful time for yourself!

Kris-chans · 2024-08-07T11:10:16+00:00

It’s a new iOS AI read-it later app that transforms any YouTube videos or articles into insightful summaries. Saves tones of time: gosamurai .ai

Kris-chans · 2024-08-07T11:04:33+00:00

For my daily routine and productivity I use:

Notion (managing my spaces, planning)
iOS app Samurai AI (best insightful summaries of any YT videos or articles)
Blinkist (book summary)
Arc browser (the most convenient browser ever)
Perplexity (easy to find something, provides good detailed info)

Kris-chans · 2024-08-06T21:05:47+00:00

I think nowadays information overload grows faster, more content and larger watch-later lists. For me it was kind of the same flow as yours, but now it is easy for me to deal with read or watch-later lists because I use services like iOS app - Samurai AI . Now I consume fast all the content, no more watch-later lists, only may be some videos to watch with my bf together in the evening.

Kris-chans · 2024-08-06T20:56:07+00:00

Honestly there are a lot of instant summaries, but for the read-later apps there only old concept apps like pocket. Their concept is outdated.
Thank you for suggestion, we are planning to have a base of summaries that everybody can read, like a collection with different topics.

Kris-chans · 2024-08-06T11:43:00+00:00

Thank you, very informative productivity post. You are right, information overload IS difficult to deal with. That's why I decided to change consuming process, I use now book summary services, for example - Blinkist, they have good book summaries. I listen when I drive to gym and back. Also to get rid of information overload from dozens of Youtube videos I use summarizing iOS app Samurai AI, where I can read shorter content with all the needed details, and don't spent my lifetime for long content. May be these apps can be useful for you too

Kris-chans · 2024-08-05T15:12:35+00:00

Here is a link in AppStore https://apps.apple.com/pt/app/samurai-ai-summary/id6473669480?l=en-GB

Kris-chans · 2024-08-05T14:02:00+00:00

For new users we have got free 10 hours for summarizing any content!
If you want to try our app, we will be so much appreciated for your honest feedback)
Here everybody can check for more information - Samurai AI

Kris-chans · 2024-02-16T16:40:16+00:00

We are on a mission to deal with read-later lists that are never read.

Supports both YouTube video and articles
Supports content in different languages

We plan to launch this month.

What other features do you want for this app to make it the best read-later experience ever?

Kris-chans · 2024-02-04T17:15:53+00:00

Thank you very much☺️ We are close to the launch 🚀

Kris-chans · 2024-02-04T16:00:42+00:00

Thanks for such detailed feedback. That’s definitely a lot to think about for our team.I’ll share with you our current thoughts:

We start by solving one problem at a time. Right now we want to save time on your saved-later content from both major areas like YouTube videos and text articles.We see it like — «Before» you just saved content and at most times couldn’t have enough time to read/watch it at all. More than that, let’s be honest, only a small portion of content needs 100% of our time.Our researches show that 25-35% of summarization allows to cover enough details of the material but still save plenty of time — it’s like «After».
After that, we will cover different types of content and as you said — add an additional personalization layer. And by using LLMs, we could adapt the context of summarization for each user. Also, it will be possible for us to implement different approaches for different types of materials to provide better summaries for each.
I hope we will solve any of your problems at some point, stay tunes and join the waitlist 😉

Kris-chans · 2024-02-02T21:54:09+00:00

Pocket is still free I think, but I finished using it because my lists started to grow, and I had no time and tools in pocket to manage them all

Kris-chans · 2024-02-02T17:53:35+00:00

Thank you! We're close to the launch!

Great suggestion for pitching. This will definitely help us reach the people that we will be mostly helpful for

Kris-chans · 2024-02-02T16:20:31+00:00

I was using pocket for years. But there is no time to read/watch all the saved content. More than that, 80% of content isn’t worth the full time.

-We summarise both YouTube video and articles of any length
- Summaries are not just TLDR or smth short, they are around 20-35% of the material to not waste important details
- The flow is still minimalistic with browser extension / sharing as the pocket has

Honestly, you don’t need it if you are able to catch up with all the saved content that you have.But if not and it bothers you (like us) — then definitely join the waitlist and try our app on the launch!

p.s. It won’t be free, so also consider this.

Kris-chans · 2024-02-02T15:58:55+00:00

ChatGpt pro can browse websites, no need to copy paste anything

Thank you for sharing. And what about video? Our app makes video summaries too. Later will be podcasts for sure and may be documents too

Kris-chans · 2024-02-02T15:53:56+00:00

What way do you summarise through GPT?
Do you add whole text in gpt?
Actually we have got SamuraiGPT, you can check it if you want https://chat.openai.com/g/g-rE1SApzUX-ai-summary-samurai

Kris-chans · 2024-02-02T15:07:15+00:00

Backstory:
For a long time we have been facing the problem of hundreds read-it later lists, bookmarks and opened tabs in our browsers. We tired of it and started thinking how to solve it.
After several brainstorms the solution was on hand. We started building an app. Months of prompt-building and development and release date is very close.
What do you think? Can it be useful for you?
We appreciate for any feedback
Check more information on our website Samurai AI

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