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Get web material in order before you hand it to an AI

After reading through several pages, instead of pasting into an AI chat over and over, collect the passages once, cut what you do not need, fix the order and the line breaks, and hand it over in one piece. This is how that works with the Chrome extension Copy & Prep.

Copy & Prep carries no AI of its own. It does not summarize, does not rephrase, and never sends your text to an AI service. All it handles is the preparation before you paste, which you do yourself.

Where the work gets awkward

Specifications, comparison articles, documentation. When the material you want an AI to read is spread over several pages, each find turns into copy, switch to the chat, paste, send, and go back to where you were reading.

The more you split it up, the more the context breaks from the AI side. The order ends up being the order you happened to find things in, not the order you meant. And the line breaks the web put mid-paragraph travel along with the text.

What you end up repeating

Every single piece of material costs you this loop:

  • Select and copy the text in the tab you are reading
  • Switch to the AI chat tab and paste
  • Fix the broken line breaks and delete what you did not want, in the chat box
  • Go back to the reading tab and find your place again

And when you decide to start the conversation over, you gather the material from scratch. Partway through you also lose track of which parts you have already handed over and which you have not.

The same job with Copy & Prep

  1. 1

    While reading, pick anything that looks relevant and choose "Add to Copy & Prep" from the right-click menu. No selecting or rejecting at this stage.

  2. 2

    When you are done reading, open the settings tab and go down the list. Delete whatever does not need to be handed over.

  3. 3

    Set the order with Move up and Move down — background first, the parts you want compared after it.

  4. 4

    Use "Tidy up" to take out the line breaks the web put in. The before and the after appear side by side, and nothing changes until you press apply.

  5. 5

    Press "Copy all" to write it out in one go, then paste it into the AI chat yourself. Choose Markdown as the output format if you want the structure kept.

Web page A Select a passage and add it
Web page B Select a passage and add it
Web page C Select a passage and add it
One list of collected passages Decide what to hand over and what to drop after you finish reading.
Delete, reorder, tidy the line breaks Done in the settings tab. Tidying is applied only after you have seen the before and the after.
Copy it all at once Written out in one go, as plain text or Markdown.
You paste it into the AI chat Past this point the extension is not involved. Whether to send it is your decision.

The extension never connects to an AI service. Pasting and sending stay exactly what they always were: your actions.

What this looks like in practice

Comparing three vendor specifications

Take only the relevant terms from each page and put them in the same order before handing them over. What you want compared is legible from the arrangement itself.

Handing over draft material in one piece

Add the passages you want to reference as you read, so the material is a single block before you ask for help with the opening.

Asking again with the same material

Copying never clears the list, so rephrasing the question does not mean gathering everything a second time.

What Copy & Prep does

  • Collects only the passages you pick with the right-click menu, from as many pages as you like
  • Lets you delete what should not be handed over, before you paste
  • Sets the order you hand things over in, with Move up and Move down
  • Edits an item, and takes an edit back to the originally captured text in one step
  • Rejoins wrapped lines inside a paragraph and strips trailing whitespace, with a preview before it applies
  • Copies everything at once, as plain text or Markdown
  • Stores everything in chrome.storage.local and makes no network requests

What Copy & Prep does not do

  • Carry any AI feature. It does not summarize, rephrase or proofread
  • Send anything to an AI service. It builds no prompts and submits nothing
  • Detect or mask personal and confidential information. Other tools cover that job
  • Read page content on its own. It injects no content script and requests no host permissions
  • Sync to your other devices. chrome.storage.sync is not used

Checking whether personal information is about to go into an AI chat is a different job. Safe Privacy Gate checks at the moment you send, and Safe Privacy Mask replaces the strings before you paste.

Safe Privacy Gate Check for confidential text in your browser at the moment you send. Read → Safe Privacy Mask Mask likely personal strings on your device before sending. Read →

The tool for this job

Features, permissions and privacy are set out in full on the product page.

Copy & Prep A Chrome extension that collects text from several pages, tidies it up, and copies it all at once See what it does →
Collecting text from several web pages and copying it at once Keep everything you picked up while moving between tabs in one list, and reorder it there. Read → Fixing the line breaks in text copied from a web page Rejoin lines broken mid-paragraph and write the text out with lists and tables still intact. Read → All use cases Browse the tools by what you are trying to get done. Read →