A Claude Skill That Turns Long AI Answers Into Short Notes

A developer created 'toot', a Claude skill that condenses long AI answers into short, symbol-heavy notes. The skill, named after the Persian word for mulberry, reduces verbose responses to a few lines while preserving key information. It is implemented as a single SKILL.md file that instructs Claude to summarize answers on demand.

An AI gives a long answer. You read fast and skip most of it. Every time. Your eyes don't read the whole reply. They look for one thing: the line that says do this, not that . The other 400 words are extra. So I wanted a way to turn any answer into short notes — the kind you write in the margin of a book. toot turns a long answer into short notes. A few words per line. Symbols do most of the work. The name is Persian: toot توت means mulberry — the small berry you eat in one bite. That is the idea: take something big and make it small enough to take in at once. Here is a real answer about adding a database index: Adding an index on user id makes these lookups faster, but it is not free. Every index must be updated on each INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE, so tables with many writes pay a cost. Your table has many reads and always filters on user id , so it is worth it. One warning: if user id has very few different values, the planner may skip the index. Also, a composite index on user id, created at would cover both the filter and the sort. The same answer, after toot : index on user id → faster reads ✓ every write updates it → write cost ↑ many reads + filters user id → worth it ✓ ⚠ few different values → planner skips it → useless composite user id, created at ≡ covers filter + sort About 110 words become 5 lines. Nothing important is lost — the cost, the warning, and the advice are all still there. Two rules keep it safe: toot translates only the one hard word, on its own line below the note. Words you already know — like cache or rollback — stay in English.The skill is just one SKILL.md file with rules written in plain English. There is no script. Claude does the work; the file tells it how. 1. Install — go to your skills folder, then clone the gist: cd ~/.claude/skills git clone https://gist.github.com/dalirnet/26bc7f57a13f13a030afb78ed17f7d71.git toot Claude finds it in your next session. To update later: cd ~/.claude/skills/toot && git pull . 2. Use it — say toot or /toot after any answer. To always translate into one language, add this line to your project's CLAUDE.md : toot default language: Persian