What is Digest?
Digest is a Chrome browser extension designed to enhance web page reading efficiency. It uses AI to automatically generate concise summaries and structured outlines for current English-language web pages, helping users quickly grasp the core content of lengthy articles, technical documents, and online books. Currently, it only supports publicly available English-language web pages; summaries generated for non-English pages have lower accuracy. Before use, you must configure your own OpenAI API key and rely on ChatGPT account permissions.
Key features
Automatically generates a concise summary of the current webpage
Automatically generates a hierarchical outline of the current webpage
Use cases and audience
Technical readers, students, researchers, and multilingual users who need to efficiently process English-language web content
- Quickly read long articles, technical documents, and online books to improve information acquisition efficiency
- Assist in browsing English web page content by automatically generating summaries and outlines to speed up comprehension.
- Integrate with the OpenAI API to enable automatic translation of summaries, catering to multilingual user needs.
Publicly available English-language web content
Concise summaries and structured outlines of webpages, with automatic translation into the user’s language
Frequently asked questions
Do you need a ChatGPT/OpenAI account?
Yes, you need to have a ChatGPT account to use this extension.
Why are summaries on non-English webpages inaccurate?
Currently, Digest only supports English-language webpages; summaries generated for non-English pages are mostly inaccurate.
How to use
- 01
Click the Digest button in your browser toolbar to show or hide the summary and outline for the current webpage.
- 02
Configure your personal OpenAI API key to activate the summary and outline generation feature.
- 03
Ensure that you are currently accessing a public English-language webpage (summaries for non-English pages may be inaccurate).
Official website & sources
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Updated on 2026-10-28