🎯 Find what matters in something long.
Paste or upload a talk, lecture, podcast transcript, sermon, article, or notes — text, a PDF, or an audio recording. Heart of the Matter finds the ideas doing the most work, breaks down what to understand, or connects themes across multiple pieces.
Heart of the Matter solves a problem every long talk or article has: an hour of content where maybe ten minutes truly matters. Speakers and writers repeat the important points, flag them with emphasis, and bury them in tangents, stories, and setup. Heart of the Matter detects those signals and extracts what you'd highlight if you had perfect attention the whole way through — whether it's a TED talk, a university lecture, a conference keynote, a sermon, a podcast, or a long article. Everything content-specific stays grounded in what you actually supplied: it reorganizes, compares, and generates practice from the material, but it does not silently add outside facts, predict what will be on an exam, guess a professor's intent, or invent common mistakes. When the source doesn't establish something, that stays a gap rather than getting filled in. Three modes cover different needs, from quick-reference bullets to a fuller breakdown to cross-source themes — and the material itself can be pasted, or uploaded as a text file, PDF, or audio recording.
Scenario: You just watched a 20-minute TED talk on behavioral economics and want the core ideas without rewatching it.
What you do: Paste the transcript (or upload the audio), enter 'Behavioral economics' as the subject, and run Distill (8 points, balanced priority) for the key ideas.
Result: Distill produces 8 ranked points — #1 is the talk's central claim, flagging the line the speaker repeated three times and the story used to anchor it. Each point notes what role it plays in the material, and the summary strips the anecdotes down to the idea they were illustrating. Run Connect across several saved transcripts and it surfaces the threads that are actually supported across them.