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Understand what's in front of you.

Noterva Assistant helps a researcher get through the text in front of them. Summarize a dense passage. Explain a difficult one. Translate it into a language you read faster. On any page, in any of 16 languages — running on your own computer.

Add to Chrome — free

Formerly Quick AI. Same tool, plainer name.

What it does

Summarize

A forty-page methods section, reduced to what it actually did. Select the passage; get the shape of it before you commit the hour.

Explain

The paragraph everyone pretends to understand — unpacked in plain language, at the depth you ask for.

Translate

Sixteen languages. Read the literature that wasn't written in yours, at the speed you read your own.

On your own computer. Literally.

The Assistant runs locally. The passage you select stays on your machine — it is not uploaded to us, stored by us, or used to train anything. For researchers working with unpublished data, embargoed drafts, or participant material, this is not a feature. It's the requirement.

Works on any page — publisher sites, PDFs in the browser, preprint servers, everywhere you read
16 languages — summarize and explain in the language you think in
Local processing — your text does not leave your computer
No account required — install it and read

Honesty note

The Assistant reads. It does not verify.

A summary is not a source check, and we will never dress one up as one. Verification is what the Noterva library and Noterva Journals do — they are where a source gets checked, because they are where a source is chosen. The Assistant's job is different and complementary: it helps you get over the passage in front of you.