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Tools for reading more than anyone can actually read

A reading list that grows faster than you can clear it, papers written for people who already know the field, and an AI conversation where your best explanation of something is buried three weeks deep. These tools help you get through the reading, keep what you understood, and find it again the night before it is due.

How they fit together

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    Cover more ground

    FeedLens follows the journals, preprint servers and lab blogs your field actually publishes in, and keeps them in one local reader instead of five tabs and an inbox filter.

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    Understand it in one pass

    ReadLens recognises that it is reading a paper rather than a news story, explains what it argues and where it is thin, in any of 13 languages, and takes your follow-up questions on the page.

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    Keep what you worked out

    AI Chat Exporter saves the conversation where you finally understood the method — reasoning and citations intact — and Bookmark Commander gets you back to the source in one keystroke months later.

The tools

ReadLens — AI Page Summarizer

Browser extension

Understand any page in seconds.

Summarise a paper, a set of lecture notes or a terms page in your own language, then ask follow-up questions without leaving the page. It recognises what kind of document it is reading, so a paper does not get the treatment a news story gets.

AI Chat Exporter

Browser extension

Export, archive and share every AI chat you have.

Keep the AI conversations that did the teaching. Export from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and Perplexity to PDF, DOCX or Markdown with reasoning and sources intact, into an archive you can search on your own machine.

FeedLens — AI RSS Reader

Browser extension

Turn the RSS firehose into a 5-minute brief.

Follow journals, preprint servers and lab blogs through RSS instead of an algorithm, read them in one clean three-pane reader, and let AI condense the unread pile only when you ask it to.

Bookmark Commander — Search & Cleanup

Browser extension

Take command of a thousand bookmarks.

Find the paper you saved in March from any tab with one keystroke, and clear out the duplicates and dead links that make a research bookmarks folder useless by the second semester.

Questions people ask

Is using AI to summarise papers cheating?

That depends on your institution's rules, and you should read them. A summary that helps you decide whether to read the full paper is a different thing from handing in text you did not write — these tools are built for the first. ReadLens deliberately keeps you on the page with the original in front of you.

Can I read a summary in my own language if the paper is in English?

Yes. ReadLens outputs in 13 languages independently of the page's language, so you can read an English paper and think about it in your own — and ask your follow-up questions in it too.

Where do my archives and reading history live?

In your browser. FeedLens keeps subscriptions, read state and cached articles in local storage, and the AI Chat Exporter archive is searchable on your machine. AI features are opt-in and send only the text you point them at.

Is there anything free here?

Yes. Reading, exporting, following feeds and searching bookmarks are free. Credits are spent only when you ask AI for something, and each product page shows exactly what a plan costs before you sign up.

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