Summate.it

What Summate.it is

Summate.it is a web article summarisation service from FiveFilters. You feed it an article URL and receive a summary on demand; continued use requires signing up or logging in.

What you can do with it

• Summarise a long article before deciding to read
• Screen a reading queue
• Extract key points from reports
• Speed up research passes

Who it is for

• Researchers
• Readers with long queues
• Analysts screening sources

What to watch out for

• Summaries drop argumentation and context; verify against the original for anything cited
• Article extraction can fail on paywalled or unusually structured pages
• Account requirements and limits may change
• Machine summaries of news can flatten attribution