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Reading a Link You Paste

Reading a Link You Paste

Last updated: August 2026


Paste a link and the AI opens that page before answering anything about it — a YouTube or Instagram link, an article, a reference site, your own channel. It comes back with the page's title, description, thumbnail and readable text.

"What's this video about?" (with the link)
"Summarise this article and put the key points on the board."

Reading a page, not searching for one

Two different things, and it is worth knowing which you want:

  • Reading a link opens the exact page you pointed at.
  • Web search goes looking for a topic across the web.

Paste a URL and you get the first. Ask a question about the world and you get the second.

Why it will not just describe the URL

A plausible description of a page nobody read is an invention, and a URL alone is not enough to know what is on the other end. So the AI opens it. If you paste a link and it says it could not read the page, that is the honest answer rather than a confident guess.

Pages built entirely in JavaScript

Some pages return very little text to a reader. Their title and description still carry the caption or summary, and that is often what you actually wanted — a video's description, a post's caption. The AI works from what it got and tells you when there was little of it.

Use Cases

  • Drop a competitor's page in and get its positioning on your board
  • Summarise a long article without leaving the board you are working on
  • Pull a YouTube video's description and turn it into notes
  • Check what a reference site actually says before citing it

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