Get the point, in the length you want
Paste the text, or just the link, and get a summary that is actually short, with no "here is a comprehensive breakdown" warm-up.
Try this promptSummarizing is the one task where length is the whole point, and it is exactly where most AI fails you: a "summary" that opens with a paragraph about what it is about to summarize.
Berges AI defaults to direct. Ask for three bullets and you get three bullets. Ask for a sentence and you get a sentence.
Same task, less slop
Certainly! Here is a comprehensive summary of the article you provided. The article covers several key points worth breaking down in detail. Below, I will walk you through the main ideas one by one so you have a thorough understanding of the content...
Three points: 1) X happened because Y. 2) The main risk is Z. 3) The next step is W. Why it matters: it changes the timeline you were planning around.
Summarize long text with Berges AI
Paste the text, or the link
Drop in the notes, thread, or transcript. A message holds about 4,000 characters, and the chat shows a counter as you get close. If the text lives online, paste the URL instead: the page is fetched for you and does not count toward the limit.
Say the length and shape
Ask for exactly what you want: "three bullets", "one paragraph", "a tweet". The format you ask for is the format you get.
Pull the thread
Ask a follow-up on any point ("expand bullet 2", "what did it say about pricing") to go deeper without re-reading the source.
Put this in your prompt
- → The exact length: number of bullets, sentences, or words.
- → What you care about, so it summarizes for your angle.
- → The audience, if the summary is for someone else.
- → Ask for "no preamble" if you want it to skip straight to the point.
Things people ask
How long can the text be?
A message holds about 4,000 characters, roughly a page of text. For anything online, paste the link instead of the text; the page is fetched for you and the limit does not apply. For a long offline document, split it into chunks, summarize each, then summarize the summaries.
Does it keep the source private?
Yes. Conversations are encrypted at rest and never used to train any model.
Why are other AI summaries so long?
They pad to sound thorough: a preamble, restating the question, a closing recap. Berges AI strips that by default, so a short summary is actually short.