Focal

Hello Product Hunt Community! I'm Antonio, and I'm the founder and creator of Focal. Focal is a tool to get the most out of your reading and research. It uses AI and the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) to help you surface insights, analyze documents in more detail, and summarize long, complex material. Here's what's in the box! - A beautiful reading experience: Distraction free reading without the clutter, without the ads. Highlight as you read and use powerful tools to work with your highlights. - A home for your content: Save web articles and PDFs securely to your personal library or into secure team workspaces. - AI Copilot: Focal AI is available right alongside your documents. Stay in flow with your own personal AI assistant and query your documents with the power of GPT-4. - AI Summaries: Break down complex documents into concise summaries. Generate key points for your content. We do the reading so you don't have to. - Generate Content: Curate your highlights into projects, then generate content that references these highlights directly. Generate compelling blog posts, academic papers, and reports. - Collaborate: Do more with your reading by securely sharing documents with your team and to your socials. Create secure workspaces for different groups. Comment and discuss highlights. Invite others to collaborate. - Highlight Management: Highlight content in PDFs and web articles. Write notes against your highlights, tag to organize, comment and discuss. Use projects to break down highlights into different topics or streams of work. - Browser Extension: For saving web pages, use Focal's handy chrome extension for faster saves directly to your workspaces. Who is Focal for? Focal is crafted for anyone who needs to dive deeper into their material for research and learning. It's made especially for long-form material, such as academic papers, essays, blog posts or news articles, and professional work documents. It's for individuals. It's for teams. Whether you're a researcher collaborating on a paper, a student learning in study groups, a professional in the workplace, or a curious mind and life-long learner who wants to share your latest reading with friends. Focal was built for you. Our story: We started Focal because we loved read-it-later apps, but when we wanted to go deeper into specific topics, or needed more powerful ways to organise documents for a broad view, things got more difficult. We wanted the simplicity of saving readable web content and documents with the power of being able to organise, analyse and collaborate with teams. We're passionate about making reading, collabroation, and research as painless as possible. Thanks for giving us a look. More updates and changes are coming in the next few months and we know there's a lot to improve: Unlocking more capability with our AI. A companion mobile app. Improving the UX. Faster performance. We're excited to hear what the community thinks and for you to try it out! Antonio de Perio Founder