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PDF Attention Is All You Need 6,600→220 words
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Purpose-built for your ADHD

Engineered for hyperfocus.

Other reading tools are built for people who have patience. Gist is built for the rest of us.

I built Gist because I have an infinite curiosity, raging ADHD and no time.

I wanted a reading tool purpose-built for my brain:

  • Hyperfocused.
  • Mind expanding.
  • Text ↔ Audio.
  • No bullshit.
— Matt Mireles Creator
What Gist does

Shorter. Clearer. Sharper.
Battle-tested.

ChatGPT summaries just shrink the words.
Gist sharpens them, structures them, and stress-tests the idea.

01

Compress

One sentence first. The irreducible core, before you spend more attention. A 14-minute essay arrives as a line you can read in three seconds.

02

Clarify

Then the structure. Arguments get the strategist's pyramid — claim, evidence, objection. Stories get the storyteller's spine — situation, complication, turn, truth.

03

Sharpen

The best version of the author's case, written better than the author wrote it. Fewer words. Stronger verbs. Nothing important lost.

04

Battle-test

The strongest objection a serious critic would raise. Then the steelman that transcends it. The argument you'd actually want to defend.

Gist

Don Draper writes the gist. A PhD explains the argument. A debate champion attacks it. A grandmaster finds the deeper truth both sides missed.

You read what you want, in three seconds or thirty minutes.

Argument

A PhD lays out the case. A debate champion attacks it.

  • Logic. The thesis broken into its load-bearing claims. Why? How? So what?
  • Counter. Inconvenient truths and a rebuttal that makes you squirm.
  • Steelman. A new angle that transcends both the thesis and the counter.
Story

A novelist sets the stage. A philosopher finds the meaning.

  • Situation. The status quo — and the first crack.
  • Complication. The moment that breaks it. No going back.
  • Question. The choice the writer can't stop circling. Two goods. Two losses. No clean exit.
  • Answer. What they chose. What it cost. What it really meant.

It's a graduate seminar in your web browser.

The reading list is whatever you want.

How to Gist

Paste. Type. Click.

Gist meets you where you already read. No new habits.

01 · Paste

On the web.

Drop a link, a PDF, a YouTube URL, a Google Doc. Anything you can paste, Gist can read.

gist.is → Paste your link
02 · Type

In the address bar.

Type gist.is/ in front of any link in your address bar. That's it. No install, no signup, no extension.

gist.is/ arxiv.org/abs/2401.04088
03 · Click

In your browser.

The browser extension. One click on any webpage, Google Doc, YouTube video, or PDF. Gist opens in place. It doesn't take you anywhere.

One click. Gist opens in place.
What you get

Read. Listen. Share.

Same Gist. Three ways into someone's head — including your own.

Read.

One sentence first. Layers underneath. Five seconds, or five minutes — your call.

Listen.

The same Gist, in your ears. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

Share.

Send a link. They open to the same sentence that grabbed you.

Pricing

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$9/ month

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Unlimited audio.
Unlimited devices.

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