The invention relates to a device (1) and a method for creating summaries of multimedia documents, the device comprising a storage means and means enabling a user to view a multimedia document. According to the invention, the device comprisesmeans of automatically weighting multimedia documents stored in the storage means according to the frequency with which the different stored documents are viewed by said user,means of creating a summary of the multimedia documents stored on the storage means according to the weighting assigned to each multimedia document.