Practical guide
How to build a useful daily digest
A useful daily digest is a decision about the day, not a list of everything published. Choose a short reading list, group the common stories, rank by the reader's current priorities, and keep the source trail available.[1][2]
Why this gets difficult
Daily digests fail when they become a compressed inbox: too many disconnected items, repeated stories, no reason for the ordering, and no honest way to see what was excluded.[1][2]
A practical way through
- Set a fixed delivery window and include only material new enough to matter for that edition.[1][2]
- Group items by underlying event or claim before deciding how many deserve space.[1][2]
- Write a short rundown first, then expand only the stories that change a decision or understanding.[1][2]
- Review the rejected items periodically to catch source drift or an outdated reader priorities.[1][2]
An example
The situation: A reader follows twelve publications that produce forty-seven items overnight, including eight rewrites of two major stories.[1][2]
What changes: The intake is reduced to story clusters, the two important developments receive full items, and novel but lower-priority material stays in the list of what Scottie read.[1][2]
What you get: The morning read becomes a few coherent stories rather than forty-seven abbreviated notifications.[1][2]
What to watch for
Sources worth keeping
How Scottie helps
Scottie prepares a scheduled morning brief from sources the reader selects, shows the rundown and complete edition, and keeps every reviewed item accessible through its original URL.[3]