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Job ticket 616845 · consumer · abstract card file · no subscription

Blinkist PRO's headline feature summarizes your documents. That's a prompt, at US$139.99.

This page is an abstract card file. Paste any text you have the right to read — a report, a transcript, a long article — and a free-tier model presses it into insight cards: claim, the text's own evidence, the so-what, each graded STRONG, ARGUED or ASSERTED. A second prompt reads your briefs against each other and files the agreements, collisions and extensions. No library is imitated and no unowned book summarized — the boundary is printed, not blurred.

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The prompt pack

Two prompts, each mapped one-to-one onto a Blinkist feature you are currently rationed on. Run them from this page with a free key, or copy them into any free chat model — the text is identical either way, and it is printed in full at the bottom of this section so it survives this site.

Loading the pack from tools.json… If this fails, the full prompt text is still readable below.

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What Blinkist's own pricing page says

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Blinkist Premium vs PRO vs this page — verified 2026-09-27
The jobPremium (US$79.99 first yr)PRO (US$139.99 first yr)This page + a free-tier model
PriceUS$79.99 first 12 months, renews US$99.99US$139.99 first 12 months, renews US$174.99US$0 forever. A free-tier key costs nothing; the prompts are yours.
Their 9,000-title libraryYes — the actual reason to pay BlinkistYes, same libraryNot here, not claimed, not imitated. Buy books, or buy Blinkist for this — honestly.
AI on YOUR contentNo — PRO-exclusivePaste links, upload PDFs, get summariesPrompt 1 on any pasted text: cards with graded evidence, no account, no upload, no US$139.99
Reading sources togetherSpaces + highlightsSame, plus the assistantPrompt 2's ledger: AGREE / COLLIDE / EXTEND with your source labels named on every line

What this replaces, and what it does not

A displacement claim you cannot substantiate is a lie with good typography. This is the whole scope, including the parts where Blinkist wins.

Replaced: the bring-your-own-content AI

PRO's headline act — summarize what you paste — as insight cards whose every claim carries the text's own evidence and an honest grade.

Replaced: retention paperwork

The cards are the notes you didn't take: claims, quotes, so-whats, and the weakest-link note telling you what to verify first.

Replaced: synthesis

The connections ledger reads your briefs against each other — the compounding value summary apps promise and rarely ship.

NOT their library

Blinkist's 9,000 professional book summaries are licensed, produced content. This page will not summarize a book from model memory — the prompt refuses by rule, because that output is unreliable and unfair twice over.

NOT a URL fetcher

Nothing here follows links or uploads PDFs. You paste text you may lawfully read; the paste is the permission model.

NOT audio

No narration, no playlists, no offline app. Files of cards, readable anywhere, are the whole product.

The prompts, in full, as text

Copy these into any model. They are the product; the page around them is convenience. Each block is the exact system prompt the interactive runner sends, plus the user-message template.

Prompt 01 — 1. Insight cards · blinkist-insight-cards v1.0.0 · best ally: Google Gemini API — Free usage tier · gemini-2.5-flash-lite

Replaces: PRO's AI assistant (US$139.99 first year): the summarize-what-you-bring-it feature, with an evidence grade Blinkist's blinks don't carry.

Why this model: Cards are extraction with grading — each claim must carry the text's own evidence and an honest strength mark, which needs the whole source in context and a schema to keep the parts separate. Long free context plus JSON mode is precisely that machine. Fallback ally: Copy-Paste Relay.

System prompt (1592 chars):

You press a pasted text into insight cards. You work only from the paste: no outside facts, no author biography, no 'studies show' that the text itself does not show. Refuse gracefully if asked to summarize a book from memory: reply with a single card explaining you only distill pasted text.

Return ONLY one JSON object. No markdown fences, no commentary, no preamble.

{
  "kicker": string (max 8 words: the source, as the reader named it),
  "title": string (max 10 words),
  "subhead": string (max 22 words: the text's central claim in plain words — what it is actually arguing, not its topic),
  "items": [
    { "title": string (max 12 words: the insight as a claim, not a topic), "tag": string (one of STRONG | ARGUED | ASSERTED), "body": string (max 50 words: the evidence AS THE TEXT GIVES IT — quote or tight paraphrase with quoted fragments — then 'So what: ...' in one clause) }
  ],
  "notes": [ string (max 28 words each) ]
}

Hard rules:
1. 4 to 9 cards. Tags are evidence grades and they must be honest: STRONG = the text gives data or a worked case; ARGUED = the text reasons but doesn't show; ASSERTED = the text just says so. A summary that flatters its source is a bad purchase.
2. Every card's evidence must be locatable in the paste. Quoted fragments are verbatim.
3. If the text is an excerpt or cuts off, a note says what the cards can't cover.
4. One note names the text's weakest load-bearing claim — the one the reader should check elsewhere first.
5. Never inflate topic into insight: 'the author discusses X' is not a card.
6. Write in the language of the paste.

User message template:

Press this into insight cards. Source (how I'd label it): {{source_label}} The text: {{text}} What I'm reading it for (optional, sharpens the so-whats): {{purpose}}

Variables:

  • {{source_label}} — What is this text? (max 200 chars) sample data shipped with the tool
  • {{text}} — Paste the text you have the right to read (max 14000 chars) sample data shipped with the tool
  • {{purpose}} — Why you're reading it (max 300 chars) sample data shipped with the tool

Output schema (the answer must match this exactly):

{ "type": "object", "required": [ "items" ], "properties": { "kicker": { "type": "string" }, "title": { "type": "string" }, "subhead": { "type": "string" }, "items": { "type": "array", "minItems": 4, "maxItems": 9 }, "notes": { "type": "array", "minItems": 1 } } }

Decoding: temperature 0.3 · max 1400 output tokens · responseMimeType application/json · budget ~3,500 in / ~800 out per source · cost per run: 1 request per source against Gemini's free daily allowance — the entire PRO AI assistant, per document, for nothing.

Prompt 02 — 2. Connections ledger · blinkist-connections-ledger v1.0.0 · best ally: OpenRouter — :free model variants · a roomy instruct model from the :free rotation

Replaces: The synthesis layer no summary app sells: your briefs read against each other — agreements, genuine collisions, and extensions, with sources named.

Why this model: Cross-source comparison rewards reasoning headroom over speed; the rotation lets the reader pick a larger free model for subtle collisions, and the relay floor keeps the whole ledger available with no key at all. Fallback ally: Copy-Paste Relay.

System prompt (1353 chars):

You read several of one person's briefs or note-sets against each other and write the connections ledger. You compare only what the pastes contain; you referee, you do not adjudicate truth.

Return ONLY one JSON object. No markdown fences, no commentary.

{
  "kicker": string (max 8 words),
  "title": string (max 10 words),
  "subhead": string (max 22 words: the question this set of sources is circling, as evidenced),
  "items": [
    { "title": string (max 12 words naming the connection), "tag": string (one of AGREE | COLLIDE | EXTEND), "body": string (max 55 words: name the sources on each side as the reader labeled them; COLLIDE entries state both positions fairly in one sentence each; EXTEND entries say what source B adds to source A's claim) }
  ],
  "notes": [ string (max 28 words each) ]
}

Hard rules:
1. 3 to 8 entries. Every entry names its sources by the reader's own labels — an unattributed connection is gossip.
2. COLLIDE requires a genuine incompatibility, not a difference of emphasis; if the set contains no real collision, say so in a note rather than manufacturing one.
3. EXTEND entries must state direction (which source builds on which).
4. Final note is a single next-read suggestion phrased as a question the set leaves open — drawn from the pastes, not from outside knowledge.
5. Write in the language of the pastes.

User message template:

Write the connections ledger for these briefs. {{briefs}}

Variables:

  • {{briefs}} — Paste 2-4 of your briefs or note-sets, each labeled (max 14000 chars) sample data shipped with the tool

Output schema (the answer must match this exactly):

{ "type": "object", "required": [ "items" ], "properties": { "kicker": { "type": "string" }, "title": { "type": "string" }, "subhead": { "type": "string" }, "items": { "type": "array", "minItems": 3, "maxItems": 8 }, "notes": { "type": "array", "minItems": 1 } } }

Decoding: temperature 0.4 · max 1100 output tokens · responseMimeType application/json · budget ~3,500 in / ~600 out per ledger · cost per run: 1 request per ledger on the :free rotation; the relay floor spends nothing.

Questions worth asking before you cancel

Does this need an API key?

No — copy either prompt with your text into any free chat model and paste the JSON back; the drawer renders locally. A free Gemini key just removes the hop.

What does Blinkist actually cost?

As displayed 2026-09-27: Premium US$79.99 for the first 12 months renewing at US$99.99, PRO US$139.99 renewing at US$174.99 — both shown with auto-applied discount coupons against the renewal prices. No free plan appears on the pricing page; trial terms weren't printed there either.

Why won't it summarize a book I name?

Because a model's memory of a book is a blurry photocopy with invented margins, and because summarizing licensed work from memory free-rides on authors in a way this site's laws ban. Paste text you own the reading rights to — that it will press, gladly.

Are the evidence grades trustworthy?

They are honest by construction — STRONG requires data or a worked case in the text itself — and inspectable by you, since every card's evidence must be locatable in your paste. When in doubt, the weakest-link note tells you what to check first.

Nothing is loaded from X or LinkedIn until you click, and no share is counted, logged or reported back to us — the buttons are plain links to each network's own share page.

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