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So what happens when you have a long article that you just want a quick summary of
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I'm going to show you how you can find the summary of any text or any article simply using Canva
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Let's go ahead and get started. So the first thing that you're going to want to do is to create a Canva account
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You can use a free account or a paid account. I believe both options will work
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Next, what I'm going to do is to go to my documents and I'm going to create a new Canva doc
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This is just like a Google doc, but it's inside Canva and I'm going to call the name of this one summary
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And that's all I'm going to do for now. So I'm going to go back to Canva and this time I'm going to select create a design
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and I'm going to go to the bottom where it says import file. And from here, I'm going to choose that PDF article that I want to create the summary for
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And there we go. Canva converted that PDF document into a Canva design
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OK, and there it is. So we'll have two tabs open. One is going to be the summary document
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The other is going to be the actual article. Now, Canva did its best to convert this PDF into a Canva design
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You can see sometimes there is a little bit of overlap with different elements on the page
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but we're just going to leave that alone for right now. So I have all of the text over here
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What I'm going to do is to summarize each page. So this is page two of nine
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I'm going to highlight the text that I want to summarize and go down
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to the bottom where the magic right icon is located. This gives me the option to summarize this text
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There it is, you can see the text is summarized into a text box that goes directly over the article
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Now, this may make it a little bit tough to read. So what I'm going to use is the cut feature
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I'm going to use control X that will cut my text. And that's where I'm going to go to this other document, the summary document
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I'm just going to go into type summary at the top. I'm going to select page two and I will paste the text from that summary right over here
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Obviously, the next one is page three. Let me go back to my article, scroll down to page three
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Highlight all of this text, there is the magic right icon again for Canva Assistant
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I'm going to summarize that text. I'm going to take this, copy that text
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and I'm going to paste it down where it says page three
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Let's go ahead and do page four. Go back to our document
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Highlight all of this text, I'm going to use Canva Assistant or magic right
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Summarize that text. Again, take this text, copy or take this text, cut and paste it
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So now we have page four. So I could do this all the way down one page at a time
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Another thing that I can do instead, if I didn't want to toggle back and forth between my documents
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is I could add that as a comment by just pasting the text
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Now, what I find is that sometimes if you have a research article like this one that has a lot of text that generates a little
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bit of a longer summary, sometimes the text doesn't always fit into a comment and other times it may just be easier just to read this
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separate document rather than scrolling through the actual text and just reading
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these little comments that I add in the corner. But either way, it's completely up to you
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But once you finish, you are able to generate a brief that hopefully gives you
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an overview of that longer article that you were trying to read
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Lots of great options using this new feature. So I hope this video has been helpful for you
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If you have any questions, please feel free to leave them in the comments section below
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Thank you so much for watching and have a great day
