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🧠 How I Read 100 Pages in 10 Minutes (and Sound Smart in Meetings)

🧠 How I Read 100 Pages in 10 Minutes (and Sound Smart in Meetings)

My exact system to digest long documents fast.

May 08, 2025

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🧠 How I Read 100 Pages in 10 Minutes (and Sound Smart in Meetings)

Let’s be honest: Nobody wants to read a 100-page PDF.

But sounding like you did? That’s power.

Here’s my exact system to digest long documents fast, using AI tools smarter than ChatGPT for this job.

🛠 Tools I Use

1. Claude.ai (by Anthropic)

Best for long, meaty docs. Just upload the file, ask smart questions, and Claude gives you answers with context

- Handles up to 150,000+ words like a boss (that’s a whole book).
- Perfect for research papers, contracts, or reports.
- Doesn’t miss pages. Doesn’t hallucinate.

Prompt it like this:

“Summarise this report with key takeaways, risks, and recommendations.”

Boom. Instant credibility in your next meeting.

2. Humata.ai

Turns any PDF into a chatbot. Just upload the file and chat with it like it’s a human assistant.

Ask it:
“What are the top 3 takeaways?”
“Where are the revenue projections?”
“What’s the main risk in this section?”

And it answers like a sharp intern who never sleeps.

Great for whitepapers, academic stuff, or board decks.

3. UPDF or PDFgear + Claude Combo

Use UPDF to extract specific sections from a long document
Feed those chunks into Claude for focused, accurate summaries

⚡ My Workflow

Step 1: Open Claude.ai

Step 2: Upload the full PDF (or just the key sections using UPDF)

Step 3: Use this prompt:

“Summarise this document in plain English. Highlight key insights, findings, and anything decision-makers would care about.”

Step 4: Ask follow-ups like:

“Where does it mention risks?”
“What’s the most surprising part of the findings?”
“If I had to sound smart in a meeting, what 3 points should I bring up?”

Step 5: Copy, paste, rephrase slightly if needed and you’re done.

🧠 Bonus Tip

Claude is better than ChatGPT for long-form content.
But if you must use ChatGPT, split the doc into sections and upload them one at a time.
Don’t rely on drag-and-drop for anything important.

🔁 TL;DR

Claude = full summaries
Humata = instant Q&A
UPDF + Claude = sniper focus

Go into that meeting like you read the whole damn thing. 🧉.

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