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BLUF quickly summarizes content from websites, PDFs, and YouTube videos using AI, enhancing user understanding.

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What is Bluf?

BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) is an AI-powered browser extension designed to quickly summarize and explain content from websites, PDF documents, or YouTube videos. It helps users efficiently browse and boost their understanding by extracting key highlights, turning complex concepts into easy-to-read explanations, and providing quick access to summarized information. BLUF is fully integrated with various content types like websites, PDFs, YouTube videos, and local files, making it a versatile tool for absorbing information from different sources. Users can benefit from BLUF in various ways, such as forum moderators fostering discussions, researchers analyzing academic papers, students grasping key concepts, journalists improving learning efficiency, social media managers crafting engaging posts, and busy professionals managing time effectively. BLUF is available on Chrome and Firefox browsers and values user privacy by collecting usage data without storing query contents and adhering to a 30-day data retention policy. For more information, users can contact the BLUF support team at [email protected].

Who created Bluf?

BLUF was created by a team behind an AI-powered assistant designed for web page analysis. The tool, available as an add-on for Chrome and Firefox browsers, aims to deliver concise answers, summaries, and explanations from web pages visited by users. It assists in navigating through excessive information by providing relevant content in a streamlined and digestible format. The team values user privacy and ensures data confidentiality by collecting only usage data without storing the content of queries. For further assistance, users can contact the support team via email at [email protected].

What is Bluf used for?

Identifying key points for forum moderators to enhance discussions
Quickly grasping essential concepts from complex academic papers for researchers
Grasping key concepts from complex academic papers quickly for students
Understanding key concepts from intricate academic texts for journalists
Extracting key ideas to craft engaging posts for social media managers
Summarizing emails, reports, or news articles for busy professionals
Forum Moderators: Identify key points to foster meaningful discussions and enhance community engagement
Researchers: Quickly grasp essential concepts from complex academic papers for thorough analysis
Students: Grasp key concepts from complex academic papers quickly
Journalists: Understand key concepts from intricate academic texts to improve learning and study efficiency
Social Media Managers: Extract key ideas to craft engaging posts and streamline content promotion
Busy Professionals: Summarize emails, reports, or news articles to stay informed and manage time efficiently
Identify key points for forum moderators to foster meaningful discussions and enhance community engagement
Quickly grasp essential concepts from complex academic papers for thorough analysis by researchers
Grasp key concepts from complex academic papers quickly by students
Understand key concepts from intricate academic texts to improve learning and study efficiency by journalists
Extract key ideas to craft engaging posts and streamline content promotion by social media managers
Summarize emails, reports, or news articles to stay informed and manage time efficiently by busy professionals
Identify key points to foster meaningful discussions and enhance community engagement.
Quickly grasp essential concepts from complex academic papers for thorough analysis.
Grasp key concepts from complex academic papers quickly.
Understand key concepts from intricate academic texts to improve learning and study efficiency.
Extract key ideas to craft engaging posts and streamline content promotion.
Summarize emails, reports, or news articles to stay informed and manage time efficiently.
Identify key points to foster meaningful discussions and enhance community engagement (Forum Moderators)
Quickly grasp essential concepts from complex academic papers for thorough analysis (Researchers)
Grasp key concepts from complex academic papers quickly (Students)
Understand key concepts from intricate academic texts to improve learning and study efficiency (Journalists)
Extract key ideas to craft engaging posts and streamline content promotion (Social Media Managers)
Summarize emails, reports, or news articles to stay informed and manage time efficiently (Busy Professionals)
Forum Moderators can identify key points to foster meaningful discussions and enhance community engagement.
Researchers can quickly grasp essential concepts from complex academic papers for thorough analysis.
Students can grasp key concepts from complex academic papers quickly.
Journalists can understand key concepts from intricate academic texts to improve learning and study efficiency.
Social Media Managers can extract key ideas to craft engaging posts and streamline content promotion.
Busy Professionals can summarize emails, reports, or news articles to stay informed and manage time efficiently.

Who is Bluf for?

Forum Moderators
Researchers
Students
Journalists
Social media managers
Busy Professionals

How to use Bluf?

Here is a comprehensive step-by-step guide on how to use BLUF:

Navigate to the Content: Locate the website, PDF, or YouTube video you need summarized.
Activate the Extension: Right-click on text, click the toolbar icon, or press Shift + Alt + B.
Get the Bottom Line: Click summarize or explain to get the bottom line.
Ask a Follow-Up: Dive deeper by asking follow-up questions about the content.

BLUF is designed to summarize and explain content quickly and efficiently. It works seamlessly on websites, PDFs, YouTube videos, and local files. The tool allows users to extract key highlights, turn complex concepts into easy-to-understand information, and ask follow-up questions for a deeper understanding. BLUF supports Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera browsers, catering to a wide range of users including forum moderators, researchers, students, journalists, social media managers, and busy professionals. BLUF prioritizes user privacy by collecting usage data without storing the content of queries for more than 30 days. For further assistance, users can contact the BLUF support team via email at [email protected].

Pros

Wide Range of Supported Browsers
Students Benefit
Journalists Benefit
Social Media Managers Benefit
Key Features
Summarize
Explain
Ask
Wide Compatability
Researchers Benefit
Beneficial for Forum Moderators
Useful for researchers
Helpful for Students
Valuable for Journalists
Pricing Options

Cons

Pricing tiers may limit the number of prompts and words per page for users with heavier usage needs
Limited browser support at the moment (available on Chrome and Firefox only)
No specific cons or limitations of using BLUF were mentioned in the provided documents.
No specific cons highlighted in the document.
Pricing for higher usage plans can be costly compared to the free or standard plans
No specific cons listed in the provided documents

Pros

Cons

Wide Range of Supported Browsers
Students Benefit
Journalists Benefit
Social Media Managers Benefit
Key Features
Summarize
Explain
Ask
Wide Compatability
Researchers Benefit
Beneficial for Forum Moderators
Useful for researchers
Helpful for Students
Valuable for Journalists
Pricing Options

Pricing tiers may limit the number of prompts and words per page for users with heavier usage needs
Limited browser support at the moment (available on Chrome and Firefox only)
No specific cons or limitations of using BLUF were mentioned in the provided documents.
No specific cons highlighted in the document.
Pricing for higher usage plans can be costly compared to the free or standard plans
No specific cons listed in the provided documents

Bluf Pricing and plans

Paid plans start at $Free/month and include:

25 prompts / month
20,000 words / page
Standard: 4 / month, 200 prompts / month, 50,000 words / page
Professional: 10 / month, Unlimited prompts, 200,000 words / page

Bluf FAQs

What is BLUF?: BLUF is an AI-powered web page assistant that provides concise answers, summaries, and explanations of web pages.

What browsers is BLUF available on?: BLUF is currently available on Chrome and Firefox. Other browsers are coming soon.

What counts as a prompt?: A prompt is any message you send to BLUF. This can either be a text based prompt or any summarize or explain requests. You can ask several questions within one message and it will only count as one prompt. If BLUF fails to complete a request, it will not count as a prompt.

What does “words/page” mean?: “Words/page” refers to the maximum number of words that can be processed in a single page or document. If a page is too large, you can always select a portion of the page and right click to focus BLUF on that smaller section.

Can I ask BLUF to summarize or explain a page instead of clicking the dedicated buttons?: While it is possible, it is not recommended. The dedicated summarize and explain buttons are optimized to process large content, while the prompt system is not. For best results, use the dedicated buttons.

What data does BLUF collect?: BLUF collects usage data, but not the content of the prompts or answers. However, to complete the prompts BLUF does send the contents of your prompt to OpenAI which does not keep your data for longer than 30 days.