New Feature: Top Stories

You know the feeling? No time to read your feeds all day, and by the evening there are 200+ unread articles waiting. The motivation to click through all of them is somewhere near zero.

That is exactly what Top Stories is for. Instead of going through every article one by one, you get a short list of the stories that most of your feeds are covering right now. The idea behind it is simple: when five or ten of your sources write about the same thing, there is usually something to it that you do not want to miss.

The list is sorted by exactly that. The story with the most sources sits at the top, and it gets quieter from there. Unread stories come first, so you immediately see what is new. It looks at the last twelve hours, so Top Stories shows you what is current, not what was big three days ago.

When you open a story, you see every source covering it in one place and can switch between them. So you get a feel for the whole day in a couple of minutes, without scrolling through 200+ individual articles.

Under the hood, Top Stories uses the same technique as Story Clustering: Feedlane uses semantic embeddings to detect which articles cover the same story, even across languages. But you do not need to know that to use Top Stories, and you do not need Story Clustering enabled in your timeline either. Top Stories works independently.

You will find Top Stories in the sidebar, right next to your other views. Give it a try tonight when the list fills up again.