Reading and summarizing
Mel for researching a topic
Ask the question that would cost you twenty open tabs. Mel searches the web, opens the pages worth opening, reads them, and writes back what it found — with the links it used, so you can check the parts that matter to you.
Powered by Mel's AI agent — free on your own provider key — 1,500 hosted-AI credits a month on Pro. The terminal is free.
Why it helps
Twenty tabs, one answer.
Mel does the searching and the reading. You get the write-up and the sources.
It reads, not just skims
Mel opens the pages it finds and reads the text on them, instead of stitching an answer together out of search-result snippets.
You can check its work
Mel is set up to finish with a Sources list — the pages it drew on, as links you can open and read for yourself.
The thread doesn't disappear
Every conversation is saved on your own machine and listed in the sidebar. Come back tomorrow and carry on from where you stopped.
How it works
Ask, and get something you can use.
Mel searches, opens what looks relevant, reads it, and writes it up — telling you what it's doing as it goes.
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Ask your question
In plain English, as specific as you like. If your question could mean two things, Mel asks you which — with buttons — rather than picking one and hoping.
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Mel searches and reads
It runs web searches, fetches the pages worth fetching, and reads them. A checklist in the conversation ticks off as it goes, so you can see where it is.
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Get the write-up
A written answer with the sources listed. Ask for a shorter version, a different angle, or the whole thing as a PDF — the conversation keeps going.
Built in
Search, read, keep.
The research tools are part of Mel — no browser extension, no copy-pasting between tabs.
Built-in web search
Mel searches the live web from inside the conversation. It is included on every plan, with a daily limit — the pricing page lists the number for each one.
Opens and reads the page
Beyond the search results, Mel fetches a page and reads its text, so the answer comes from the source rather than from the snippet.
Saved conversations
Every conversation is written to your own machine and listed in the sidebar. Find an old one by name and reopen it exactly as you left it.
Turn it into a document
Ask for a PDF and Mel typesets the summary — headings, tables, the lot — into a file you can open and send.
It stays where you left it
Every conversation is saved on your machine.
Research rarely finishes in one sitting. Mel writes each conversation to your own computer and lists it in the sidebar, so tomorrow it is all still there: what you asked, what Mel found, and the links it used. Open one beside another to compare two threads side by side.
- Saved to your own machine, not a browser tab
- Listed in the sidebar — find one by name
- Reopen and continue the same thread
- Open two side by side to compare
More use cases
What else Mel can do.
Organize your files
Sort the folder you've been avoiding, rename a batch of files, find the one you lost — and approve every change before it happens.
ExploreMake a PDF report
Turn notes, findings or a page of numbers into a typeset PDF you can send — headings, tables and callouts, laid out properly.
ExplorePhotos & video
Resize a folder of photos, convert a video, pull the audio out of a clip — using the media tools already installed on your machine.
ExploreGet started
Ask the question you've been putting off.
Let Mel do the searching and the reading, and hand you a summary you can check, keep, and come back to.