Stop Copy-Pasting Articles into ChatGPT. There's a Better Way.
Summary (TL;DR)
Copy-pasting articles into ChatGPT for summaries takes seven steps, leaves no record, and loses the source. Readplace does it in one click: save the article, get an AI summary automatically, and keep both in a searchable archive. Summaries are cached by URL so they are ready instantly.
You find a 2,400-word article. You don't have time to read it now. You want the gist.
So you do the thing:
- Select all.
- Copy.
- Open ChatGPT.
- Paste.
- Type "TL;DR".
- Read the summary.
- Close both tabs.
- Forget the article existed.
That is seven steps, two apps, and zero record of what you read.
The problems nobody talks about
It's manual every time. No shortcut makes this smooth. You are a human clipboard moving text between browser tabs.
The summary vanishes. ChatGPT conversations get buried fast. Try finding that summary from Tuesday on Friday. You end up copy-pasting the same article again.
There's no archive. You got the summary, but the article itself is gone. You didn't bookmark it. You didn't save it anywhere. It's lost in your browser history.
Long articles get truncated. Paste a 5,000-word piece into ChatGPT and you hit token limits. Now you split the article into chunks and paste twice. You hope the model connects the context across both pastes. Reading just became project management.
You lose the queue. Real reading is not one article at a time. It's fifteen tabs you opened on Monday and plan to get through by Sunday. Copy-paste gives you no way to manage that backlog.
What if it took one click?
Here's the same scenario with Readplace:
- Click the browser extension.
That's it.
The article is saved. A TL;DR summary shows up on its own.
Read the summary now and decide if the full piece is worth your time. Or skip it. The article stays in your archive either way, searchable and yours.
You skip the tab-switching, the pasting, the prompt crafting, and the vanishing chat threads.
Readplace caches summaries by URL. If fifty people save the same article, it gets summarised once. Your summary is ready the moment you open the article.
One click vs. seven steps
Speed is part of it. The bigger thing is whether your reading adds up to something.
With copy-paste, every article is disposable. You extract a summary and throw away the source. You have no trail back to the piece, no personal library to browse, and no way to revisit what you read last month.
With Readplace, every saved article becomes part of your personal archive. Summaries are there for a quick scan. Full articles are there when you want depth. Your reading list is a queue you can manage, not a pile of browser tabs about to crash.
The point
ChatGPT is a great tool. But using it as a manual article summariser is seven steps too many.
Readplace does it in one.
Save the article, get the summary, and keep both.