Glasp

Glasp is best understood as a public highlighting layer over the web. Where Pocket and Raindrop.io keep your clippings private, Glasp makes your highlights—and your profile—public by default. That social twist is the core differentiator: you can follow other readers, see what's trending, and stumble onto curated content you wouldn't have found alone. It's closer to a 'shared notebook' than a full social network, but for discovery it works. The AI features are a real timesaver. One-click summaries of articles, PDFs, and YouTube videos give you the gist in seconds, and the chat-with-your-highlights lets you ask questions across your saved material. The 2026 MCP connector is a clever bridging move: it pipes your highlights into ChatGPT and Claude, so you can run deeper Q&A inside the assistants you already use. That's a meaningful advantage over rivals that keep their AI in a walled garden. Weaknesses are real. The social feed is thin compared to a true network—it's more 'shared notebooks' than Twitter for readers. AI summary quality depends on the model you pick and the highlights you fed in; bad highlights produce bad summaries. The free tier's YouTube summary cap (100/month) bites heavy users quickly, and Pro is required for private highlights, which some new users don't realize upfront. There's also no offline mode on mobile, so you need an internet connection to access your highlights on the go. Where does it fit? If you're a student, researcher, content creator, or lifelong learner who wants a public trail of what you read, Glasp is excellent. It's a middle layer in a research pipeline: capture and share here, then export to Notion, Obsidian, or Readwise when you need to write. It's not a deep note-taking replacement like Roam or Notion—if you need wiki-style organization, look elsewhere. Privacy-minded folks who want everything hidden should also skip it.