What it is
Glasp is a web and PDF highlighting platform that helps users capture, organize, and share excerpts and notes from online reading. It integrates browser extensions and mobile apps to let users mark text directly on webpages, PDFs and videos, and aggregates those highlights in a centralized account. The product also offers tools that transform collected highlights into an AI-driven writing assistant: users can build a personalized AI model trained on their highlights and annotations to generate suggestions, draft text, or act as a searchable memory of past readings. The service includes import and export capabilities to connect with external reading and note-taking systems.
Key features
Glasp supports inline highlighting and annotation on webpages, PDFs and select media formats, with the option to attach notes to individual highlights. It provides AI summarization for webpages, PDFs and YouTube videos, plus an audio transcription feature that converts audio files to text and produces summaries. Users can create a personal AI clone that learns from imported highlights and notes, enabling conversational queries against one’s collection and content suggestions. The platform offers integrations with tools such as Notion, Obsidian, Pocket, Medium, Readwise and Snipd, export in Markdown/HTML/CSV/JSON, browser extensions for Chrome/Safari/Edge/Firefox, mobile apps, a knowledge graph to track learning progress, and an API for developers.
Use cases
Individuals and teams use Glasp for research, study, and content preparation by collecting and revisiting annotated excerpts from articles, PDFs, books and videos. Writers and bloggers can generate outlines, continue paragraphs, or assemble weekly reading digests using the AI assistant trained on their highlights. Students and researchers import highlights from Kindle and other services for daily review and organized study, while professionals export notes to external note-taking apps to maintain shared repositories. The conversational highlight feature supports rapid retrieval of insights, and transcription plus summarization assists users who need concise captures of audio or video source material.
