Scenarios: your own news anchor
A morning brief on your topics: choosing sources, setting the hour, and never being told the same thing twice.
Who it is for
For people who want to keep up without spending the morning in a feed.
Typical scenarios
- The morning brief — five items, ready by the time the coffee is.
- Your topic, not a section — not "tech", but "releases from these three companies".
- Following one story — and only when something in it actually changed.
- A weekly digest — when daily is too often.
How to set it up
1. Deploy it from the catalogue on the Small plan.
2. Tell it in chat what you care about and which sources you trust.
3. Give it an hour: "weekdays at 8am".
4. For the first week, say "not this" — the list tunes itself to you.
How it differs from a feed
It remembers what it has already told you and will not bring the same story twice — and when a story does move, it says what moved. It also keeps fact and comment apart: what happened first, what it makes of it separately, labelled as its opinion.
One tip
Ask for links: "put the sources at the end". The brief gets slightly longer and becomes checkable.
What it cannot do
It is only as good as its sources. If nobody wrote about something, it will not tell you about it — and on a thin day it says the brief is thin rather than padding it out.