Chat with Highlights

Ask a question of everything you've read

Not one document — the whole library. Articles, PDFs, YouTube videos and Kindle books, answered from the passages you chose to keep.

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In short

What is Glasp's Chat with Highlights?

Chat with Highlights answers questions from every passage you have ever saved to Glasp — web articles, PDFs, YouTube videos and Kindle books together — rather than one document at a time. Because the corpus is sentences you personally chose to keep, the answers are checkable: each one points back at the highlight and the source it came from. Free monthly quota, no credit card.

Scope
Your whole library, not one file
Sources
Articles, PDFs, YouTube, Kindle
Price
Free monthly quota, no card
Reading you can question later

How it works, in three steps

  1. 01

    Highlight across everything you read

    Articles, PDFs, YouTube videos with timestamps and imported Kindle books all land in one library.

  2. 02

    Ask a question of the whole library

    Not one document — everything. Ask what your sources said about a topic, or what you thought a year ago.

  3. 03

    Follow the answer back to the source

    Answers point at the highlights they were drawn from, so you can open the original and check it.

What you get

A library you can interrogate

One question, every source

Ask what your sources said about a topic and get an answer assembled from a paper you read in March, a video from last week and a book from two years ago — without remembering that any of them existed.

  • Answers cite the highlights they were drawn from
  • Web, PDF, YouTube and Kindle in one corpus
  • Nothing to configure — it uses what you already saved
Asking a question across every highlight in a Glasp library

Highlight on the web and in PDFs

The Glasp extension highlights any webpage or PDF in Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox. Add a note while the thought is fresh — notes are part of what the chat can answer from.

Highlighting a webpage and a PDF with the Glasp extension

YouTube, with the timestamp attached

Highlight a moment in a video and the timestamp comes with it, so an answer about a video can send you straight back to the second it came from.

Bring in the reading you already did

Import from Kindle, Instapaper, Medium, Hypothesis, Weava and more, so the library starts from years of reading instead of from today.

The Glasp import screen listing Kindle, Instapaper, Medium, Hypothesis, Weava and Pocket
See it on somebody else's library

These Glasp readers published theirs. Ask one a question — no account needed.

2,000,000+

researchers, students, and lifelong learners highlight with Glasp.

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What readers say

  • I love Glasp! I use it every time I read online articles. Highlighting with Glasp enforces me to actually read rather than scan through an article. I retain so much more info and can easily revisit my previously read articles to recall details and notes I've made.
    Olive
    Product Designer
  • I've researched every highlighting tool from Liner and Hypothesis to Instapaper and Pocket, and Glasp is the best hands-down. First, it creates a whole category of its own with social highlighting. This is important because it helps learners get recognized for finding amazing highlights, and it helps them connect with others who are learning the same thing at the same time. Also, it has the best highlighting workflow. While reading an article, you can select text in order to highlight and annotate without having to go to a different page. Furthermore, all of your highlights for a specific article appear on a right sidebar as you're reading, and they're easy to copy and paste into another note-taking app.
    Michael Simmons
    Bestselling Author
  • I used Instapaper but ended up hating it and stopped. There just wasn't a tool for me to continue using until Glasp. I was hooked immediately for the ease of use (highlight directly on the article web page), organized feed, and learning from others' highlights and notes. It makes sticking to learning something so easy and you can no longer find any excuses. Highly recommended to anyone who loves reading awesome articles or want to start forming such habit.
    Puppy Tsai
    Product Manager
Answers

Frequently asked questions

What is Chat with Highlights?

Chat with Highlights lets you ask a question across every passage you have ever saved to Glasp — from web articles, PDFs, YouTube videos and Kindle books at once — instead of one document at a time. Answers point back at the highlights they came from, so you can open the original source and check them.

How is this different from chatting with a single PDF?

Scope. PDF chat answers from one document; this answers from your whole library, which is where the interesting questions live — 'what have I read about pricing', 'what did I think about this two years ago', 'which of my sources disagree'. Single-document chat is on the Chat with PDF page.

How is it different from asking ChatGPT?

The input. A general model answers from the open web; this answers from sentences you personally chose to keep, in sources you chose to read. That is a much smaller corpus and a much more trustworthy one, because you can check every claim against the passage it came from.

Do the answers cite their sources?

Yes. Every answer points back at the highlights it drew on, with the article, PDF, video or book they came from. An answer you cannot trace is not much use.

What can I highlight and chat with?

Web articles, PDFs, YouTube videos with timestamps, and Kindle highlights you import. Imports from Pocket, Medium, Instapaper, Readwise, Hypothesis, Diigo, Raindrop and Weava all feed the same library.

Is Chat with Highlights free?

Yes. Every Glasp account includes a free monthly AI quota with no credit card. The pricing page has higher limits for heavy use.

Can other people chat with my highlights?

Only if you want them to. Publishing your AI clone gives it a page at glasp.co/ask/your-username that anyone can ask a question of. Highlights you mark private stay out of it.

Is my reading used to train public AI models?

No. Glasp does not sell your data and does not use your content to train public AI models. See the privacy policy for details.

Can I use my highlights inside Claude or another AI tool?

Yes. The Glasp MCP connector exposes your highlights to Claude and other MCP clients so they can answer from what you have saved.

More questions? Read the docs or email hi [at] glasp.co.

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