News: your daily brief
A short brief built each day from what you work on and follow, a Trending feed, and Track, which turns a story into a watcher that reports back as it develops.
News is a short brief written for you each day, in two tabs: For You and Trending.
For You
A brief built from what you work on and follow: a headline story, then the rest of the day's items, each with a line on why it is worth your time. It is dated, and it says as of when it was assembled.
- Go deeper asks Dropstone about the story in a chat, with the story as the context.
- Track follows it, as described below.
- The thumbs say what you want more and less of, which shapes the next brief.
- Listen to your briefing reads it aloud.
Stories you have already seen are left out of the next brief, so it does not repeat yesterday at you.
Trending
What is moving across several sources, ranked. The same actions apply: open it, go deeper, or say you want less of it.
Track a story
Track turns a story into a watcher. Dropstone follows it in the background, checking often while it is breaking and backing off when it is quiet, and its updates land in the Following tab as a timeline. Recent developments on stories you follow appear as a strip above the brief.
A tracked story is a watcher, so it appears in Settings under Watchers with the rest, and can be paused or cancelled there. See Watchers.
Turning it off
Settings has a News section. Turn the brief off and the page stops building one.
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