Summarize a paper or reading
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Upload a paper, say why you are reading it and who for, and get a summary in a set number of paragraphs.
Fill the blanks and it copies as you filled it
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Summarize the material above.
- Why I'm reading it:
- Who will read this:
- Start with the research goal and findings in two lines
- Then summarize the body in three paragraphs or fewer
- Skip the list of prior work and the general background0 of 2 blanks filled · anything left blank copies with its brackets
What this prompt does
Compared with asking the same thing without the length and format lines.estimate
Estimated output tokens
700
Asked loosely
180
This prompt
Energy (Wh)
1.215
Asked loosely
0.423
This prompt
Tokens estimated from characters; energy measured by Jegham et al. 2025.
What that saves
15.8 Wh · 5.54 gCO₂e · 74 mL — assuming 20 uses a day — the global average is 3.7 (Chatterji et al. 2025)
Tap a card for how the conversion was done.
Reported backfire — Specifying output lengthSpecifying a length longer than needed backfires (a 34% increase in 11% of scenarios)
Where these figures come from
Published figures for the rule itself — not what this prompt saves.
Specifying output length
38.7%mean reduction · 95% CI 29.7–47.7%
Podder et al. 2026 BP#5 · 18 use cases / 57 prompts
by modelGPT-4o 35%Command R+ 49%Mistral-7B 32%
Reduced in every scenario. No backfire reported