---
title: Summarise This For Me
description: Give it a link, an article or a long video and get back what it is
  really saying.
category: learning
params: []
version: 1
tags:
  - summarizing
  - content
license: cc-by
---

I am going to give you a link, an article, or a long video, and I do not want to read or watch the whole thing.

Tell me what is in it. Start with the one thing it is really saying, in a single sentence. Then the handful of points that matter, in plain words. Then anything it leaves out, gets wrong, or is quietly trying to sell me.

Say roughly how long it would take me to go through it myself, so I can decide whether to bother.

If you cannot open the link, say so and ask me to paste the text in. Hand back the summary.