iCreate - UK (2020-04)

macOS

Usea blankslate

WhenyouusetheSummariseoption

overandoveragain,youwillfindthat

anytextyouselectis addedto the

wordsyou’vealreadytriedto geta

summaryof.Thisis greatif youare

lookingto summarisetextfrommultiple

sourcesbutit canrapidlystartto

becomemessysokeepthingsneatby

simplyselecting‘ClearAll’.

Knowledge base

Speed-read documents

and web pages

T

heSummarisefeaturebuiltintomacOSis notnew.In fact,

it’sbeenpartof theMacoperatingsystemformanyyears

andyetit is soeasilyoverlookedbecauseAppledecided

toremoveit asa defaultkeyboardshortcutmanymoonsago.

It allowsyoutoreada quicksummaryof a chunkof text,so

youcanquicklygetthegistof whatit is saying.Fromwebsites

in SafaritosearchablePDFsin Preview,thisis thetoolthatcan

saveyouloadsof time,makingit wellworthactivating.

Hereweshowyouhowtodothatwhilealsolookingat

thetool’sbasicfeatures.It couldevenhelpyouin yourwork,

gettinglengthydocumentsundera wordcountbycuttingout

unnecessaryprose.

Only want to see the key points of a chunk of text? Then turn

to macOS’sbuilt-inSummarisefeature

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Apple, Inc

Difficulty

The Summarise feature is ideal for helping you

digest facts without wading through waffle...

Get the most out of Summarise

Get to know the Summary window’s options

Summary size

The further left you move this

slider, the more concise the

summary will be. So keep

moving it back and forth until you

are happy with what you see.

Copythesummary

Right-clickthetextin a

Summarywindowandyoucan

copyit, allowingpastinginto

a differentdocument.Thereis

alsoanoptionto share.

Use Reading mode

To make selecting text

easier on a website, click the

Reader mode button to the

left of the URL bar to remove

unnecessary clutter.

Sentences or

paragraphs

There are two main

summarising options: one

based on sentences and the

other paragraphs. The latter

tends to slice away the larger

parts of a documents.