Glasp

Use Case 1: Efficient Content Research and Resource Drafting

Problem: Content creators and marketers often find inspiration across dozens of websites, newsletters, and PDFs, but lose track of specific quotes or data points when it’s time to actually write their drafts.
Solution: Glasp allows users to highlight text directly on any webpage or PDF and organize these snippets with tags. Instead of switching back and forth between tabs, the sidebar keeps highlights visible, and the one-click export feature moves organized research directly into writing tools like Notion or Obsidian.
Example: A tech blogger researching "The Future of Remote Work" highlights statistics from a McKinsey PDF, quotes from a Forbes article, and insights from a Medium post. They tag everything as "#RemoteWork2024" and then export the entire collection to Notion to use as a structured outline for their next article.

Use Case 2: Mastering Technical Tutorials through Timestamped Video Notes

Problem: Developers and learners watching long technical tutorials on YouTube often struggle to find specific code explanations or "aha!" moments later without re-watching the entire video.
Solution: Glasp’s YouTube highlighter allows users to take notes and create highlights tied to specific timestamps. This creates a searchable, text-based index of a video’s most valuable moments that can be revisited instantly.
Example: A developer watching a two-hour tutorial on "Advanced React Hooks" highlights the exact moment the instructor explains useContext. They add a personal note about a bug they previously encountered. Later, they can click that highlight in their Glasp profile to jump back to that exact second in the video.

Use Case 3: Building a Conversational "Second Brain" for Instant Recall

Problem: Knowledge workers often suffer from "digital hoarding," where they save hundreds of articles but can never find the specific information they need when a project requires it.
Solution: Glasp builds a "Digital AI Clone" based on a user’s specific highlights and notes. This allows the user to "chat" with their own curated knowledge base to get personalized insights and summaries based only on what they have actually read and vetted.
Example: A researcher who has highlighted over 500 articles on sustainable energy over a year uses their AI Clone to ask: "Based on my notes, what are the three biggest hurdles to hydrogen fuel adoption?" The AI synthesizes an answer based solely on the researcher's previously saved highlights.

Use Case 4: Collaborative Market Intelligence for Teams

Problem: In professional teams, members often read industry news in silos. Valuable insights found by one person are rarely shared with the rest of the team in a way that is easily accessible and searchable.
Solution: Using Glasp’s social features, team members can follow each other to see what colleagues are reading and highlighting in real-time. This creates a "collective knowledge-sharing" environment where a common repository of references and notes is built automatically.
Example: A Product Management team follows each other on Glasp. When the Lead PM highlights a specific user-pain point mentioned in a competitor's PDF whitepaper, the rest of the team sees the highlight in their feed instantly and can add their own collaborative notes to the same snippet.

Use Case 5: Daily Knowledge Retention and Review

Problem: Readers often experience "The Forgetting Curve," where they forget up to 70% of what they read within 24 hours if the information is not reviewed.
Solution: Glasp integrates with Kindle and offers a "Daily Review" feature. It sends reminders and curated snippets of past highlights to the user, forcing active recall and ensuring that insights from books and articles stay top-of-mind.
Example: A lifelong learner imports their Kindle highlights from a book on "Atomic Habits." Every morning, Glasp shows them three random highlights they made in the past. This daily habit reinforces the lessons from the book and helps them apply the principles to their daily routine.