The Problem with Reading on the Web
You find a great article — say, Peter Bloem's Transformers from Scratch — open it in a new tab, start reading, get confused by a sentence, open three more tabs to look things up, and lose the thread entirely. Sound familiar?
ClipThoughts keeps everything in one place: the article, your highlights, and an AI that knows exactly which passage you're asking about.
Step 1 — Create a Collection
Create a Deep Learning collection (or any topic folder). Collections let you group related articles, papers, videos, and podcasts so your research stays organized rather than scattered across bookmarks.
Step 2 — Clip the Article
Paste https://peterbloem.nl/blog/transformers into the Add Article form. ClipThoughts fetches and stores a clean, readable version of the page — no ads, no cookie banners, no paywalls interrupting your flow. The content is saved to your collection so you can read it offline too.
Step 3 — Highlight What Matters
Select any sentence in the article viewer. A color picker pops up — yellow for key definitions, blue for methodology, pink for things to revisit. Each highlight is saved as a note with the surrounding context, so you can find it again without re-reading the whole article.
Step 4 — Ask Gemini About It
Switch to the AI Agent tab. Type @ and your highlights appear in a dropdown numbered @1, @2, etc. Select the highlight you want to discuss, ask your question, and Gemini answers with the full context of that specific passage — not a generic summary of the topic.
Why It Beats Copying & Pasting into ChatGPT
- Context is preserved: The AI sees exactly what you highlighted, not whatever you remembered to paste.
- Notes persist: Come back a week later — your highlights and the AI conversation are still there, linked to that exact article.
- One workspace: Articles, PDFs, videos, and podcasts all live together. No more juggling tabs.