AI Features
Sensemaker uses AI to reduce the effort of reading, organizing, and connecting your saved content. All AI features require an active subscription.
Overview
| Feature | What It Does | When It Runs |
|---|---|---|
| AI Summaries | Generates digest summaries of batches of content | Weekly (scheduled) |
| Auto-Tagging | Classifies new content with 1-3 topic tags | On save (automatic) |
| Suggested Highlights | Surfaces passages that connect across articles | On demand via Insights |
AI Summaries
When you have unread content, Sensemaker generates weekly digest summaries that appear as cards on the Today page.
Each digest covers a batch of recent items and provides a concise summary — useful for deciding what to read first or catching up on content you might skip.
Summaries are generated by Claude and processed in batches of up to 5 concurrent items. You can toggle weekly digest emails in Settings.
Auto-Tagging
When auto-tagging is enabled, every new item saved to your library is automatically classified with 1-3 topic tags based on its content.
Tags are applied as system tags and appear alongside any manual tags you add. This works for articles, PDFs, newsletters, and RSS content.
Configuration
Toggle auto-tagging in Settings:
- AI auto-tagging — Content-based topic classification (subscription required)
- Auto-tag by source — Tags items by content type (PDF, EPUB, video, etc.) — free
- Auto-tag newsletters — Tags newsletter items by sender name — free
Suggested Highlights
The most distinctive AI feature. Sensemaker reads across your library and identifies passages that connect to each other — ideas that support, extend, or challenge one another.
How It Works
- Sensemaker analyzes content in your library
- It identifies semantically significant passages
- Each suggestion includes a connection type:
- Supports — This passage reinforces an idea found elsewhere
- Extends — This passage builds on or adds nuance to another idea
- Challenges — This passage contradicts or complicates another idea
- New Angle — This passage introduces a fresh perspective on a theme
Using Suggested Highlights
Visit the Insights page and scroll to the Suggested Highlights section.
For each suggestion, you can:
- Accept — Creates a real highlight in your library (appears on the Highlights page)
- Dismiss — Removes the suggestion
Accepted suggestions become part of your permanent highlight collection and are included in exports.
Why This Matters
Most read-it-later apps treat each article as isolated. Sensemaker treats your library as a connected knowledge base. Suggested highlights surface the connections you'd find manually if you had time to re-read everything — which you don't.
AI Providers
Sensemaker supports multiple AI providers with different capability levels:
| Provider | Model | Summaries | Auto-Tagging | Suggested Highlights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude (Anthropic) | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| OpenAI | gpt-4o-mini | Yes | No | No |
| Gemini (Google) | gemini-2.0-flash | Yes | No | No |
Claude is the primary provider and supports the full feature set: summaries, auto-tagging, and suggested highlights. OpenAI and Gemini are available as alternatives for summaries only.
All AI processing uses platform-managed API keys — no BYOK (bring your own key) needed.
Privacy
AI features process your content to generate summaries, tags, and suggestions. Content is sent to the AI provider for processing and is not stored by the provider beyond the request. See the Privacy Policy for details.