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News Digest

When to use

• You spend an hour a day scanning the same feeds and still feel behind
• You run a newsletter and curation eats your whole week
• Your team needs to stay current on a niche topic without hiring a researcher
• Your source list keeps growing faster than your attention
• You want "one email a day" instead of fifty open tabs

Workflow

1. Define the brief (input: topics + trusted sources → output: source list)
   Name your topics and your trusted sources: RSS feeds, subreddits, X searches, Hacker News. A small tight list beats 120 feeds on day one — start with your 10 best sources and expand only when the digest feels thin. Note why each source is trusted; that note is what stops source rot later.
2. Fetch and dedupe (input: source list + schedule → output: clean item pool)
   Pull on a fixed schedule — daily for a personal digest, or every 6 hours into a store for a weekly newsletter. Then dedupe aggressively: the same story always arrives from five sources wearing different headlines. One story, one entry, the best link kept.
3. Score and rank (input: clean items → output: ranked shortlist)
   Score every item on four dimensions — relevance, freshness, authority, engagement — and apply a duplication penalty when near-identical stories slip through. The weights are tunable and they should be: start with defaults, then adjust weekly based on what you actually clicked. Publish the rubric so you can tell when the ranking drifts.
4. Write the digest (input: shortlist → output: summaries + intro)
   Write one short summary per item — faithful to the source, no clickbait rewrites. Add a "why it matters" line and a link to the original. For public newsletters, write an editorial intro in your voice (under 150 words) and label your own opinions as opinions. What you can't verify, you flag — never present a rumor as fact.
5. Preview then send (input: draft digest → output: delivered digest)
   Always run one full trial before turning on the schedule: review the output, tune the prompt, fix the weights. For newsletters, the draft goes to a preview channel first (e.g. Telegram) and sends only on your explicit approval. Then deliver on schedule: email, chat app, or your notes — one fixed time, every time.

Output spec

• Source list: each source with a one-line "why trusted" note; additions and removals logged
• Scoring rubric: relevance / freshness / authority / engagement + duplication penalty, weights adjustable
• Digest format: intro (≤150 words, public digests) + ranked items, each with title / one-line summary / source link / date / why-it-matters
• Fixed schedule: daily or weekly, one send time
• Every item links to its original source — no exceptions

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Template preview

News Digest — Brief & Edition Template

Two pages. Fill the brief once (review monthly); use the edition sheet per issue.

Brief (fill once)

Topics: {topic 1}, {topic 2}, {topic 3} Schedule: {daily at 07:00 / weekly Thursday} Delivery: {email to …, Telegram channel …, Notion page …}

Sources

Scoring rubric (weights add to 10)

Duplication penalty: {e.g. "−2 if the same story appears in 3+ sources — keep the best link"}

Edition — {date}

Trial run (first issue only)

[ ] Ran once manually [ ] Reviewed output [ ] Tuned prompt/weights [ ] Schedule turned on

Ranked shortlist

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