What is Gist?
Gist turns the page you are already reading into a layered reading surface — start with the core, swipe deeper only if you want more.
Gist turns the page you are already reading into a layered reading surface.
Click the Gist icon on any article, paper, PDF, or YouTube video. The reader opens as an overlay — the original page stays underneath. Start with the one-sentence core. Swipe only if you want the story, the reasoning, or the strongest objection. Close the moment you have what you need.
You control the depth. The author wrote the piece. Gist decides nothing for you.
What you will find here
- Install Gist — get the extension running, pin it, try it on the first page you read.
- How the reader works — the overlay, the swipe, the keyboard.
- The layers — Gist, Story, Logic, Counter-argument, Steelman. The sequence behind the adjustable depth.
- Anti-slop — why a Gist is not a generic AI summary.
- What Gist does on your device vs. on our servers — the before-click / after-click split.
Want to Gist something without installing anything? Paste a URL, upload a file, or paste raw text at /try. Same layered read, no extension required.
Want to share a Gist with someone? The reader can produce a public share URL that renders the layers on a web page. Nothing becomes public until you create that link.