Skim It

What is Skim It

Skim It is an AI-powered tool that generates summaries of articles and delivers them to your inbox. Users can email the link to an article to the Skim It platform, and within approximately 10 minutes, they will receive a summary generated by AI. The tool is primarily designed for entertainment purposes and should not be relied upon for accuracy. Skim It was created by Karthik Sridharan and Alex Furmansky as a fun project to practice AI text processing, email handling, and web scraping.

Key Features

• AI-Generated Summaries: Provides summaries of articles sent via email, leveraging AI for quick and concise content digestion.
• Email Integration: Users can simply email the link of an article to SkimIt.ai, and receive a summary back in their inbox.
• Share with Friends: Allows users to cc friends in the email, sharing both the article and its summary.
• OpenAI’s GPT Technology: Utilizes OpenAI’s GPT for processing and summarizing articles.
• Entertainment Purposes: Designed as a fun project for quick takeaways from articles, emphasizing entertainment over accuracy.
• Privacy Consideration: Retains only the sender’s email address, CC’d email addresses, and the first URL sent within the email for processing.