Daily Briefing

Daily Briefing brings recent articles from your subscriptions together in one reading collection, with a short overview of the stories they cover. It helps you catch up on recent news, follow developing events, and focus on articles that match your interests. You choose the time period and eligibility settings to make the briefing as broad or focused as you want.

Select Daily briefing in the sidebar or the Show menu when AI features are enabled. The briefing uses your saved preferences each time you open it.

Read your briefing

The overview starts with a context strip showing the eligible article and source totals, newly created Events, and matched Interest Islands. The stories shaping your morning highlights up to four event stories, followed by the full collection of matching articles.

Read, bookmark, and navigate these articles with the same controls as other collections. Positive learned preference and Negative learned preference badges describe the direction of your personal-interest signal, separately from the overall recommendation score. Where attribution is available, selecting the badge opens Why this article was ranked with the ranking signals. See Scoring and Ranking for how those signals contribute to ordering.

The story excerpts come from stored article text; missing source text can produce a headline without an excerpt. Opening the briefing does not generate a new model-written summary on every visit. Reader mode keeps this introduction compact, and narrow portrait screens hide excerpts. If the overview fails to load, you can still read the article list.

Tune your selection

1. Open Daily briefing.
2. Select Tune your briefing at the right of the context strip above the story overview.
3. Change the article selection, lookback period, or coverage settings.
4. Select Save changes to apply your preferences and refresh the briefing.

Article selection

Setting	What it changes
Only unread articles	Excludes articles you have already read.
Include Hot articles	Enabled by default. Includes Hot articles that meet your briefing filters; disabling it excludes all Hot articles, even if they also match your interests or belong to a qualifying Event.
Mark as read while scrolling	Marks briefing articles as read after they pass the viewport. Available only when Only unread articles is enabled; separate from the Unread view’s scrolling setting.
Include developing coverage in the summary	Uses new coverage of continuing events in the morning story overview without restricting the article list to developing stories.
Show only articles with learned preferences	Includes positive and negative learned preferences and excludes neutral or absent preferences. Eligibility still uses nonzero stored interest; Recommended still applies negative interest as a penalty.
Show only developing stories	Limits the article collection to qualifying unread articles selected as new event coverage.

The two Show only options are mutually exclusive. Switching one on switches the other off. Include developing coverage in the summary affects the story overview, while Show only developing stories filters the article collection itself.

Hot articles qualify through links from other feeds in your subscriptions. Including them does not bypass the saved period, unread-only, minimum-source, or Show only filters.

Selection period

Choose Last 24 hours for a focused current view or Last 7 days for broader weekly coverage. The default is Last 7 days.

Coverage quality

Minimum distinct sources lets you require coverage from one to five separate feeds for an event to qualify. One source gives the broadest selection; higher values favor stories covered by more of your subscriptions and can substantially reduce the briefing. Separate feeds do not necessarily mean independent reporting.

Use Recommended ordering for summary uses Recommended ordering before event-strength fallbacks in the morning story overview. FeedTrust contributes through Recommended’s quality component. This setting changes summary ordering; article list ordering is unchanged. Recommended includes learned preferences, freshness, quality and source trust. The setting does not apply a minimum trust threshold.

Save, cancel, or reset

Save changes stores the preferences for your account, closes the dialog, and reloads the briefing selection and overview. Cancel, the close button, or Escape discards unsaved edits. If saving fails, the dialog keeps your edits so you can retry.

Reset to defaults selects the last seven days, one required source, and enables Include Hot articles. It switches off the other optional selection, scrolling, developing-event, and trust settings, including unread-only. This includes both read and unread articles. Reset changes the draft; select Save changes to keep it. The screenshot shows customized settings, rather than the defaults.

For a simple daily catch-up, choose Last 24 hours and Only unread articles. For a broader weekly review, choose Last 7 days and leave unread-only off. To focus on ongoing stories, enable Show only developing stories.

Understand counts and empty results

The introduction is labeled Global briefing across your subscriptions, and navigation counts are labeled global. A selected category, feed, or tag can narrow the article list. In that case, Filtered briefing articles replaces the global introduction and explains the count’s scope, including for empty results. Last 24 hours uses a rolling publication-time window for the article list, structured Briefing context, and overview count: from 24 hours before evaluation through evaluation time. Last 7 days uses the equivalent rolling seven-day window. A compact category menu can also show zero for Briefing because category-specific briefing counts are not supplied.

An empty briefing is valid. Try seven days, one source, and disabling interest-only or developing-only filters. Global score thresholds still apply.

Receive a briefing by email

In Settings → Account, verify your address, enable daily briefing email, and save a delivery time and timezone. SMTP must be enabled by the operator. The email contains Recommended and Top Stories sections with up to ten articles each, without repeating an article between sections. It uses saved briefing eligibility and does not reproduce the four-story on-screen overview exactly.

For technical details, see the native API, scoring guide, and email operations.