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Explain Like I'm 5

Highlight anything confusing, right-click, and get a dead-simple explanation — generated privately on your own device.

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Explain Like I'm 5: a workflow with 4 steps, starting with Right-click a selection and ending with Show the explanation.

  1. Right-click a selection (Context Menu — open its doc page)Note: Adds this workflow to the right-click menu whenever you have text selected.
  2. Get selected text (In-page action — open its doc page)Note: Reads the full text you highlighted on the page. The context-menu event only carries a short, truncated copy, so this node gets the complete selection reliably.
  3. Explain simply (Basic LLM Chain — open its doc page)Note: Rewrites your selection as a plain, simple explanation.Uses:+ Local AI model (open its doc page)
  4. Show the explanation (Display Markdown — open its doc page)Note: Displays the simple explanation right where you're working.

Overview

Highlight anything confusing, right-click, and get a dead-simple explanation — generated privately on your own device.

Good for

cutting through jargon on any topic.

How it works

  1. Right-click a selection

    Adds this workflow to the right-click menu whenever you have text selected.

  2. Get selected text

    Reads the full text you highlighted on the page. The context-menu event only carries a short, truncated copy, so this node gets the complete selection reliably.

  3. Explain simply

    Rewrites your selection as a plain, simple explanation.

  4. Show the explanation

    Displays the simple explanation right where you're working.

Setup

  1. Install and turn on the awflow browser extension.

  2. Choose the local AI model to use.

Before anything installs

You'll see this first.

Before you install, you see what this template can access and where it connects. Once it's installed, it asks before contacting a new website or using a connected app, and you can change any step.

Versions

  1. v2

    Initial release.

  2. v1

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