Sumarry Service

Hey guys, it's Mac. Isn't on, and I'm going to be teased you about an application on your computer that you might not know about called Summary Service.

Summary Service is able to summarize texts that make some sense into shorter paragraphs or even one summed-up sentence. Summary Service is not in your Applications folder, as you may have noticed, but it can be accessed from the Services menu in many applications.

Safari! I will be demonstrating this. So, say, go to Wikipedia.org, and in the search field, type Apple Inc. Okay, so I get this huge description of Apple, maybe the early years of Apple, etc. And say I want to summarize this. All I need to do is highlight the text I want to summarize right there. Then I go up to the Safari menu or the application menu of the current app. Under Services, you just click Summarize, and then it will bring up the Summar utility.

Instead of sentences, I'm going to select paragraphs, and I'm just going to make it a little smaller. Okay, so it still has the links like this, and that doesn't work very well, like images. They're just the one word that is the name of the image. The alternative, if there was no image, was kind of annoying. So I can, onion, as you can see, this is a whole different application. It's a Summary Service at the top, you know, and I can quit this in Safari, still open separately.

So you can also access this from Text Edit. If you type something like "This is a test on amazing summary," okay, now I can select this text. Text Edit, Services, Summarize. I don't believe that one-on-one supports this, but, um, yeah, and this is kind of short, so it won't really work. But if it was like an essay or something, it would be really good at summarizing.

Um, so this is how to summarize stuff. Um, if you want to find the actual application that does this, you need to do is open a new Finder window, go to Macintosh HD, then go to /System/Library, then find Services. And then here, there are a few things. I think all these are nice, but here is the Summary Service, that app.

Here's what it kind of looks like when it's loading. This loading bar is here, but they forgot to make that actually animate itself, so it just kind of looks kind of lame right there. They should have really thought that through. And nothing really works, but they didn't expect that people were going to go into the actual Summary Services. If you take a look at the About page, it says it's version 1.2.1 copyright © 2009. So Apple named this in 2009. It's pretty old.

So this is Summary Service. It doesn't really work if you open it that way. I might make a video later on about these other applications.

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