Reading with AI
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2 responses to “Reading with AI”
Many thanks for this. I had mainly used ChatGPT and CoPilot but now I’ve learned through playing with Claude and Gemini that you can attach PDFs to their free versions. One attachment used up the free tokens in Claude, but Gemini could ‘read’ through loads of PDFs from the Google Drive, which has helped me see the high level themes across a dozen papers on the same topic in less than an hour! So that I have a better strategy for reading the papers now.
I ended up paying for Claude because of the high number of daily interactions I have, but I know that this isn’t an option for many people. For the kind of activity you describe, I think Gemini possibly gives you the most on the free version. My only issue with Gemini is that almost all my work sits outside the Google ecosystem, so I was finding myself moving stuff into Drive just so that Gemini could see it. But I suppose that’s similar to having to upload my stuff to Claude anyway. I wonder if it would make sense to move entirely into the Google ecosystem, just to make the workflow across their products smoother. By the way, have you played with NotebookLM yet (notebooklm.google.com/)? Have a look and see if it adds anything to your reading system.
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