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Raindrop.io's Stella now reads full transcripts of saved YouTube videos, allowing users to ask for summaries, key points, translations, or specific details without watching the video. This update expands Stella's capability to handle all saved content formats—articles, PDFs, web pages, and videos—enabling quick, versatile interaction with library content. The feature runs on Raindrop.io’s servers with privacy safeguards and is currently in beta for Pro members.
Meet Stella: An AI assistant for Raindrop.io that turns bookmarks into an interactive resource. It answers questions, summarizes content, organizes your library, and helps rediscover saved topics. Your data is private, using an open-source model hosted securely. Two years of development focused on quality and privacy without compromising performance. Currently in beta, included in Raindrop.io Pro, with ongoing improvements based on user feedback.
Raindrop.io now supports PDF preview and highlighting on web, desktop, and mobile. A custom PDF rendering engine was developed due to browser limitations and the need for server-side rendering to enhance performance. Highlighting PDFs is simple and all highlights are stored with the document. However, users must save PDFs as bookmarks in Raindrop to highlight, as built-in browser viewers do not support highlighting. Users can find all saved PDFs in the “Documents” section of the app, allowing seamless integration with other saved content.
https://blog.raindrop.io/pdf-preview-and-highlighting-41391d06fe90
Raindrop.io's Share extension allows bookmarking from any macOS app using the Share menu. Install the Save to Raindrop app from the Mac App Store to enable both Share and Safari browser extensions. Key features include saving links, selecting collections and tags, and automatic context capture. To enable, go to System Settings and activate Raindrop.io under Sharing. The extension currently only supports link sharing.