You're reading an article. A paragraph doesn't make sense. You want to ask ChatGPT to explain it. Here's what that looks like right now:
- Select the text
- Ctrl+C to copy it
- Ctrl+T to open a new tab
- Type chatgpt.com and hit Enter
- Wait for the page to load
- Click the input field
- Ctrl+V to paste, then hit Enter
Seven steps. By step four, you've already lost the thread of what you were reading. The friction is small per step, but it adds up — enough that most people don't bother unless the question feels important. Quick clarifications, idle curiosities, and half-formed questions die in the gap between "I wonder" and "that's too many clicks."
It doesn't have to work this way. With Wilee, you select the text, flick your mouse, and a new tab opens with your text already loaded in the LLM. One gesture. Under a second.
How It Works
Wilee is a radial menu extension for Chrome. You hold the right mouse button, a circular menu appears at your cursor, and you flick toward an action to trigger it. The whole interaction — hold, flick, release — takes about half a second once you've done it a few times.
When you have text selected on any page, the radial menu includes LLM actions. Flick toward ChatGPT, and Wilee opens a new tab at chatgpt.com with your selected text pre-loaded into the input field. Same for Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. The LLM receives your text immediately — no pasting, no navigating, no waiting for a page to load before you can interact with it.
The flow becomes:
- Select the text you're curious about
- Hold right mouse button, flick toward your preferred LLM, release
That's it. Two steps replace seven. Your reading flow stays intact because you never left the page mentally — you just dispatched a question and kept going. When you're ready for the answer, it's waiting in the other tab.
Supported LLMs
Wilee supports four LLM services out of the box:
- ChatGPT — OpenAI's conversational model, the most widely used LLM for general questions
- Claude — Anthropic's model, strong at nuanced analysis and longer text
- Gemini — Google's model, integrated with Google's search and knowledge graph
- Perplexity — a search-focused LLM that cites its sources inline
You don't have to use all four. In Wilee's settings, you choose which LLMs appear in your radial menu. If you only use ChatGPT and Claude, those are the only two that show up. If you want all four, they each get their own wedge in the menu. The point is that your radial menu stays clean — only the actions you actually use.
Setting It Up
There's no configuration required to start using LLM actions. Install Wilee from the Chrome Web Store, and the LLM options appear automatically in your radial menu whenever you have text selected.
If you want to customize which LLMs show up or change their position in the menu:
- Click the Wilee icon in your Chrome toolbar
- Open Settings
- Go to the Actions section
- Toggle the LLMs you want on or off
- Drag to reorder — put your most-used LLM in the direction you naturally flick
Most people put their primary LLM straight up or straight right, since those are the easiest flick directions. After a few days, you won't think about direction at all — muscle memory takes over and you'll flick toward ChatGPT or Claude without looking at the menu.
Use Cases That Change Your Workflow
Once sending text to an LLM takes one gesture instead of seven steps, you start using it for things you never would have bothered with before. Here are the patterns that come up most:
Explain confusing paragraphs
You're reading a research paper, legal document, or technical spec. A paragraph is dense with jargon or assumes context you don't have. Select it, flick to Claude or ChatGPT, and ask for a plain-language explanation. You get the answer in a new tab while you keep reading the original.
Debug code snippets
You find a code example on Stack Overflow or in documentation that isn't working. Select the snippet, flick to an LLM, and it can identify the bug, explain what the code does, or suggest a fix. This is particularly useful when you're working in an unfamiliar language or framework.
Translate text
You land on a page in a language you don't read fluently. Select a paragraph, flick to an LLM, and ask for a translation. LLMs handle idiomatic language and context better than most dedicated translation tools, especially for less common language pairs.
Summarize long articles
You've opened an article that turned out to be 5,000 words when you expected 500. Select the first few paragraphs — or the whole page's text — flick to Perplexity or ChatGPT, and get a concise summary. Decide if it's worth reading the full thing or if the summary covers what you need.
Fact-check claims
A blog post makes a bold claim without a citation. Select the sentence, flick to Perplexity (which cites its sources), and see if the claim holds up. This takes about two seconds — fast enough that you'll actually do it instead of just assuming.
Privacy: Your Text Stays Between You and the LLM
This is worth stating clearly: Wilee does not see, store, or transmit your selected text to any server. When you flick toward an LLM action, Wilee opens a new tab directly at that LLM's website with your text as a URL parameter or pre-filled input. The text goes from your browser to the LLM's site — the same path it would take if you copied and pasted it yourself.
Wilee has no backend server that processes your text. There's no analytics on what you send. There's no intermediary between your browser and ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity. The extension acts purely as a shortcut — it automates the tab-opening and text-loading that you'd otherwise do manually.
Your text is subject to whatever privacy policy the LLM provider has, just as it would be if you pasted it in directly. Wilee adds no additional data exposure.
How This Changes Your AI Workflow
The biggest shift isn't speed — it's frequency. When sending text to an LLM requires seven steps and thirty seconds, you reserve it for important questions. When it requires one gesture and one second, you use it constantly. You ask about everything. The confusing sentence, the unfamiliar word, the suspicious statistic, the code snippet you almost understand.
This matters because LLMs are most useful as thinking partners for small, frequent questions — not just for the big "write me an essay" moments. The value of having ChatGPT or Claude available isn't in the once-a-day deep dive. It's in the twenty small questions you'd never have asked if each one cost thirty seconds of context switching.
Wilee doesn't change what LLMs can do. It changes how often you reach for them. And that frequency shift is what turns an LLM from a tool you visit into a tool that's just there, one flick away, every time you're reading something and your brain says "wait, what?"
Getting Started
Install Wilee from the Chrome Web Store. Select some text on any page. Hold the right mouse button, flick toward an LLM, and release. That's the entire learning curve.
No account required. No setup. The LLM actions work on the free tier. Pick a paragraph on this page, try it right now, and see how it feels to skip the seven-step copy-paste dance entirely.