ShortMe is a browser extension that lives in Chrome and works on whatever text you are looking at. Instead of opening a separate app and pasting content in, you highlight a passage (or let the extension scrape the active tab) and it returns a condensed version. The design goal is speed: read the short version first, then decide whether the full text deserves your time.
Under the hood ShortMe uses a classical extractive approach rather than a chat-style LLM. It scrapes the article heading and body from the active tab, strips stop words and stems the remaining terms, builds a graph where sentences are nodes weighted by TF-IDF and cosine similarity, then runs a PageRank-style ranking to pick the highest-scoring sentences for the summary. This keeps summaries anchored to the source wording instead of inventing new claims.
The store listing states it works across almost any text source, including web apps like Trello and Slack, social networks, review sites, and Gmail. It is aimed at students, teachers, documentation teams, and anyone doing research or SEO work who needs to triage large volumes of reading. The extension is free and was last updated in 2022.
