Comparisons
Every way to feed an AI your pages
There are eight realistic approaches, and none of them wins everywhere. These pages set them against each other, limits included.
Manual copy and paste
Selecting text on a page, copying it, switching tabs and pasting it into a chat.
LocalBridge
A Chrome extension that reads the tabs you tick and sends their readable text to Claude or ChatGPT.
Browser reading mode
The built-in reader view that strips a page down to its article text.
AI browser sidebars
A chat panel built into the browser that can see the page you are on.
Screenshot upload
Capturing the screen as an image and attaching it to the chat.
Bookmark then summarise later
Saving links to a read-later tool and processing them in a batch afterwards.
Pasting URLs into the chat
Giving the assistant links and asking it to fetch them itself.
Custom scripts and automations
Your own scraper or automation that collects pages and calls an AI API.
Letting the assistant browse
Giving the assistant a search tool or browser so it fetches pages itself rather than being given them.
Downloading and uploading files
Saving pages as PDFs or documents and attaching them to the chat.
Elsewhere
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