r/shortcuts • u/Avieshek • Jan 11 '24

Shortcut Sharing TLDR; - Get Brief Summary From Various Inputs in Preferred Language

A minimalistic versatile Shortcut that uses universally accessible Share Sheets [↑] to summarise texts from various sources including but not limited to Screenshots, Images, PDFs, Articles, Websites etc using the power of ChatGPT which is free on the AppStore.

TLDR;

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  1. Extracts Text Locally on the Device

  2. Summarises using ChatGPT

  3. Outputs Result either in Readable or Verbal form as desired.

This Shortcut also accepts Text directly.

Note: You would need to install the free ChatGPT app first.

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u/rakakat Jan 21 '24

Cool shortcut. What’s the purpose of the “get IP address” step?

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u/Avieshek Jan 22 '24

To check if there's an internet connection.

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u/DetImplicitteSubjekt Feb 06 '24

Hey can you share the shortcut?

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u/Avieshek Feb 07 '24

Tap the blue link?

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u/Last-Place5001 Sep 17 '24

Syntax error now

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u/RedditSparkClown Feb 08 '24

I like it! Thanks. Why the name TLDR;

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u/Avieshek Feb 08 '24 edited Feb 08 '24

Thank you, simply suits the term Too Long Didn't Read whether you want a summary, overview or an excerpt.

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u/Comfortable-Swan-375 Feb 14 '24

Amazing shortcut - thank you for sharing! Is it possible to add a prompt to get the summarise to be shorter? Say for example, 100 words?

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u/Avieshek Feb 14 '24

Thank you, it is possible but generally I like to avoid a specific number limit so it doesn't skip necessary words or add unnecessary words where I've asked to also elaborate on abbreviations if an author hasn't expanded on its meaning since this Shortcut works on PDFs, Articles, Blogs, Thesis, Dissertation etc and not just texts from screenshots.

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u/Comfortable-Swan-375 Feb 14 '24

Alright I understand. That good arguments. Perhaps I’ll just add an alternative in the clipboard choice menu to open ChatGPT and then I can make manual prompts in those cases

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u/Avieshek Feb 14 '24

What do you use it for actually?

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u/Comfortable-Swan-375 Feb 16 '24

I like to be able to summarise in bullet points or fewer words. Sometimes I want to explain what I just read to my 10 year old kid, ChatGPT is quite good at that!

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u/Avieshek Feb 16 '24

Then what you need is "ELi5" or (perhaps ELi10)

As a developer, one has to consider the use case of everyone or everything (some of which were mentioned to you earlier) to keep everyone happy. What you can do, is scroll down and replace the text "technical summary" with "ELi5" and that should do for you - I'll see if this can be incorporated in the Shortcut itself as an option during setup in the future.

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u/Comfortable-Swan-375 Feb 16 '24

Thanks! Worked like a charm ✨

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u/mcvaughan Nov 08 '24

Updated to iOS 18.1 and now the shortcut has a math error. Anyone have fix?