Locus — Smart CTRL + F

AI-powered CTRL + F for easy document search

What is Locus — Smart CTRL + F?

Locus — Smart CTRL + F is an innovative Chrome extension that transforms traditional CTRL + F searches into AI-powered, natural language searches for documents, PDFs, and web content. It helps you quickly find relevant information, organizes your searches, offers tagging for favorites, and provides quick summaries, making your research more efficient. Ideal for tackling long texts like papers, articles, and online textbooks, Locus enhances productivity and simplifies content digestion.

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By: https://locusextension.com

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Users: 6,000+

Rating: 3.66 (29)

Version: 2.2.1 (Last updated: 2024-11-20)

Creation date: 2023-02-19

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

activeTab
tabs
storage
sidePanel
tts
webRequest

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 4.89M

Email: lo*****@locusai.co

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 13339 ▼ 15

Other rankings

#380 in Tools

#76 in summarize pdf keyword 34 ▼ 4

#106 in effect keyword 35 ▼ 1

#111 in smart keyword 44 ▼ 1

#164 in control keyword 19 ▼ 10

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

Locus Smart Search completely reimagines CTRL + F (or ⌘+F on a Mac) search so you can quickly find information you need from webpages and PDFs using natural language. The extension also provides an easy way to organize your recent searches, tag favorites, and use AI to summarize the page and answers quickly.

Make searches that aren't possible with regular CTRL + F (or ⌘+F on a Mac). Locus understands your search intent and immediately identifies the relevant sections. Refer back to sections in long papers, PDFs, documents, and articles using natural language instead of remembering keywords.

Mix and match documents, searches and summaries in your research!

Whether you're working with long papers, PDFs, documents, articles, news pieces, online textbooks, or blog posts, Locus works seamlessly on most static web pages that contain text.

Save time digesting content on the web and Hack your productivity.

We're constantly working to make the extension better. If you have suggestions or requests, we would love to hear from you in our Discord Community, there you can connect with our team and other Locus users and stay updated: https://discord.gg/kTAH3N9E8a.

Release Notes

https://locusai.co/Release-Notes-56c4675dd94a485f8ac8cd2c0d9dbb60

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Significant improvements noted in functionality
Useful for reading and searching long documents
Can use natural language for keyword searches
Saves time by quickly locating information
Great potential for future developments

Cons

Requires account creation
Limited to searching three web pages per day
Frequent errors with 'Navigate to a valid page or refresh page'
PDF support is lacking
Not free and perceived as expensive

Most mentioned

Navigate to a valid page or refresh page
Great potential
Not free
Significant improvements

Recent reviews

I've never been able to log into this no matter what I try, and it is so utterly garbage if you don't have an account. Requiring an account for a simple extension is also ridiculous, but I digress. The page just infinitely loads when I attempt to make an account. It probably has to do with the enforced captcha that only has text loaded in. Fix your website.

Jared Trounce, 2024-08-29

lets you search THREE web pages per day. service is slow, and the idea of it is an invasion of privacy.

Mike, 2024-06-18

Locus has made *significant* improvements since the beginning of 2024 and I'm excited to see them build momentum. I was able to easily navigate a scanned 60+ page PDF to find the relevant sections pertaining to the 3-5 topic areas that I care about. This is such a breath of fresh air compared to locating a term in a table of contents, scrolling to it, reading it, then scrolling back to the table of contents, then scrolling back to another page where the key term(s) are formally defined.