Book to Skill vs Distilly Person Profiles

Book to Skill

By Virgilio Jr

Turn a book or document into a reusable playbook your AI assistant can apply.

Distilly Person Profiles

By Distilly

Capture how a colleague, mentor, or public figure thinks so your AI can draw on it.

Book to Skill

• Reads PDF, EPUB, Word, HTML, Markdown, plain text, and other document formats
• Extracts named frameworks, mental models, principles, and anti-patterns in the author's own terms
• Creates chapter-by-chapter notes plus a glossary, patterns guide, and cheat sheet
• Offers an analyze-only mode so you can review findings before anything is generated
• Updates an existing book skill when you add new chapters or sources

Distilly Person Profiles

• Builds a profile of your own preferences so a personal AI assistant knows who it works for
• Captures a colleague's workflows, standards, and communication style from their messages and docs
• Researches a public figure's views and ways of thinking from public sources
• Imports PDFs, screenshots, email exports, and chat history from Slack, Lark, or WeChat
• Lets you add new material or correct a profile later, and roll back changes

Reach for Book to Skill when…

• You want your AI assistant to apply a book's frameworks while you work
• You're building a reusable knowledge base from a stack of documents or reports
• You need quick lookups of key concepts from a long book without rereading it

Reach for Distilly Person Profiles when…

• A teammate is leaving and you want to keep their know-how and context
• You want your AI assistant to understand your role, style, and priorities
• You want to ask how a favorite author or thinker might approach your question
• You are handing over a project and want the knowledge captured in one place