Save Articles, Blog Posts, and Web Pages to Your Second Brain

Beyond YouTube

BrainTube supports saving content from across the web. Here is what you can save and how.

Supported Sources

BrainTube recognizes and optimally processes content from:

• Medium articles
• Substack newsletters
• Reddit posts and threads
• Dev.to and Hashnode blog posts
• Wikipedia articles
• LinkedIn posts
• Twitter/X threads
• GitHub repositories and READMEs
• Any generic webpage

How to Save a Web Article

1. Copy the article URL
2. Open BrainTube and click Add (+)
3. Paste the URL and hit Enter

BrainTube automatically:

• Detects the source type (Medium, Substack, etc.)
• Extracts the main content (strips ads, sidebars, navigation)
• Generates an AI summary
• Extracts key concepts and takeaways

Example: You read a great Substack newsletter about remote team management. Paste the URL. BrainTube saves it with:

• Full article text (cleaned up)
• A 3-paragraph summary
• Key takeaways like "Async communication reduces meeting load by 40%"

Saving from AI Conversations

A unique BrainTube feature: you can save conversations from:

• ChatGPT shared links
• Claude conversations
• Gemini outputs

Real Use Case: Research Pipeline

A researcher's workflow:

1. Find relevant articles across Medium, arXiv, and blog posts
2. Save all URLs to BrainTube
3. BrainTube processes each and generates summaries
4. Use semantic search to find connections across all articles
5. Create a collection called "Literature Review" with the best ones
6. Use the Content Lab to draft a synthesis

All without manually copy-pasting or taking notes by hand.