[marginalia_nu]

There's a lot of summary tools, I feel what is lacking is exegesis. Most texts are too shallow as they are, and condensing them down makes them lose even more nuance. Software that could draw out hidden themes and understated points in a body of work would be incredibly useful.

[bennetthi]

+1 that'd be awesome. As I don't have time to read a single article fully, but I definitely don't have time to 200 of them.

Also....excited to learn a new word, "exegesis"

[dnlkwk]

I think that's what makes summaries so difficult for skimming news, like on HN.

For most professional use-cases, you kinda know what types of stuff you expect in a summary so you could possibly create templates. For example, internal calls are mostly around deliverables, due dates, blockers, etc. When casually reading, you don't know what you'll come across so getting a summary that really "hits" is difficult.

[just_boost_it]

For this kind of thing, you can use LDA to draw out topics, then use clever prompting using the results of that with RAG to create summaries.

[ibestvina]

Could you give an example of content where such critical distilation would be useful to you?