Turn a pile of newsletters and subscriptions into one skimmable brief — the items that matter to YOUR interests extracted with sources, the noise dropped with a count, on a cadence that replaces daily trickle-reading. Use when asked digest my newsletters, summarize what my subscriptions said this week, what did I miss that I actually care about, or make my reading pile useful. Produces the interest-filtered brief with per-item sources, the dropped-with-reasons ledger, and the cadence that makes trickle-reading obsolete.
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Use newsletter-digest-brief to turn [newsletter pile] into an interest-filtered brief for [interest profile], prioritized for [action bias], with sourced items, collapsed repeats, a counted dropped ledger, and a recommended cadence.
Required inputs
[newsletter pile]
[interest profile]
[action bias]
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name: newsletter-digest-briefdescription: "Turn a pile of newsletters and subscriptions into one skimmable brief — the items that matter to YOUR interests extracted with sources, the noise dropped with a count, on a cadence that replaces daily trickle-reading. Use when asked digest my newsletters, summarize what my subscriptions said this week, what did I miss that I actually care about, or make my reading pile useful. Produces the interest-filtered brief with per-item sources, the dropped-with-reasons ledger, and the cadence that makes trickle-reading obsolete."
Newsletter Digest Brief Skill
Newsletters are individually reasonable and collectively unreadable — twelve arrivals a week, each 70% padding, each interrupting on its own schedule. The digest move: batch them (the inbox-unsubscribe-purge filter routes them to a label), then process the pile into one brief filtered by the reader's actual interests — items extracted with their source and why-it-matters, everything else dropped with a visible count so the reader trusts the filter instead of re-reading behind it.
What This Skill Produces
The brief — the items that matter to this reader's stated interests: one line of what + one of so-what + the source link
The dropped ledger — "skipped 31 items: 12 promos, 9 repeats of the X story, 10 off-interest" — the trust mechanism
The repeat-collapse — one story covered by four newsletters appears once, best-source-first
The cadence setting — weekly for most; daily only for genuinely fast-moving beats
Required Inputs
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The pile — the newsletters' content (pasted/forwarded), or the label they collect under
The interest profile — the beats that actually matter to this reader ("AI tooling, pricing strategy, my competitors, nothing about funding rounds") — the filter IS the product, and it needs edges
The action bias — reading-for-awareness vs. hunting-for-actions; the brief leads with actionable items when the latter
Framework: The Digest Rules
Filter by declared interest, ruthlessly: the brief includes what matches the profile and drops the rest — a digest that summarizes everything is the pile again, shorter. Edge cases get one "borderline" line at most, not inclusion.
What + so-what + source, one item = two lines: "Vercel shipped edge-side A/B testing (what). Relevant: replaces the tool you're paying $400/mo for (so-what). [source]" — the so-what is written for this reader, which is what separates a digest from a table of contents.
Collapse the echo: the same announcement in four newsletters is one item, attributed to the best treatment ("deepest take: X's issue"). The echo-count is itself signal ("covered everywhere = the week's consensus story") and gets a line when heavy.
The dropped ledger builds the trust: the counted skip-list ("12 promos, 9 echoes, 10 off-interest") is what lets the reader not re-read the pile — a filter with invisible drops never earns retirement of the source reading.
Cadence follows the beat's clock: weekly suits almost everything; daily digest is for beats where a day's lag costs (markets, security advisories). The cadence is chosen once and defended — an "urgent" exception lane exists only for the reader's pre-named topics.