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Daily Digest

Every morning, Pulse scores recent newsletter content against your personal tag profile and delivers a concise digest — up to 5 items — covering your Work and Personal personas.

Delivery

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  • Email — delivered to your registered address(es) at your configured digest time (default: 10 AM in your timezone). Subject: Your Pulse digest — {weekday}, {date}
  • Web — available any time at pulse.oikon.ai/digest

Delivery is idempotent — if the scheduled job runs more than once, users who already received today’s digest are skipped.

Generating your digest

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When you navigate to /digest:

  • If today’s digest already exists, it loads automatically.
  • If no digest exists yet, a Generate Digest button is shown. Click it to build your Work and Personal digests on demand.

Cold-start state

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If you have not yet ingested any content, Pulse shows trending items with a “We’re still learning your preferences” banner. Feedback controls are hidden in this state since there is no personal profile to refine yet.

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  • On /digest (today): click the ← arrow to go to yesterday’s digest.
  • On /digest/YYYY-MM-DD: use ← / → arrows to navigate between days.
  • The → arrow is disabled for future dates.
  • Clicking → from yesterday navigates back to /digest (today).

What’s in the digest

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Each digest item includes:

  • Title and a short summary (3–5 bullet points)
  • Source newsletter name and sender
  • Tags — the topics Pulse identified
  • Article links — links to any articles referenced in the newsletter
  • Feedback buttons — thumbs up / thumbs down (web UI) and deep-link feedback in email

The email version also includes an unsubscribe note linking to your Settings page.

How items are scored

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Pulse scores each candidate article on three signals:

SignalWeightDescription
Source affinity50%How relevant this source has been to your persona
Tag overlap40%How well the article’s tags match your persona profile
Recency10%More recent articles score slightly higher

Only articles above a minimum relevance threshold appear in the digest. If fewer than 5 articles meet the bar, you will see fewer than 5 items — quality over quantity.

Diversity rules

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To avoid repetition, the digest engine applies diversity constraints:

  • At most 1 mention of any entity (person, company, topic) per digest
  • At most 2 articles from any single source per digest

Personas

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The digest is split into Work and Personal sections. Pulse learns which topics belong to each persona from your tag profile, which is seeded at signup and refined through feedback.

Re-generating a digest

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You can regenerate today’s digest from the web app at any time — useful if new content arrived after the morning delivery.

Next steps

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