Not because you're slow — because five outlets covered one event and you had to open all five to be sure none of them added anything.
Name your beat and the outlets you trust it on. joris reads the live web against that brief every morning, collapses that event into one line with the primary cited, and leads with the three that actually move your beat — on your screen before your news meeting.
Other monitors count coverage. This one recognises that five stories are the same story, keeps the source that broke it, notes which one added something, and gives you back four minutes.
Google News ranks for engagement across everyone. A news app optimises for its own traffic. Neither of them knows that the council planning page matters more to you than a national front page.
You list wire services, trade press, a local filings page, a competitor's blog — five sources or fifty. That list is what it looks for and what it weighs, and every line carries the outlet it came from. Add one in a sentence, drop one the same way.
And the honest limit: joris searches the live web, it doesn't subscribe to your feeds or open a page on command. A source that published nothing findable overnight isn't in the digest — which is why each line names where it came from, so a quiet source is visibly quiet rather than silently missed.
Not a watch that sits open all night — a single run at the time you picked, doing in four minutes the reading you'd do in forty. You never trigger it, never open a tab, never wait on a spinner. The one time it matters — the twenty minutes before your news meeting — it's already done.
No filter builder, no boolean query, no settings page. You leave a note the way you'd tell a junior reporter — and the next run reflects it. Over a week the digest converges on your beat instead of averaging everyone's.
“Drop crypto entirely. More on the AI Act, and always flag anything from the council filings even if it looks small.”
Those rank for engagement across everyone. joris reads against your beat and the outlets you named, merges duplicate coverage, and leads with the three that matter — a monitor of one, not a feed of everything.
Name them and it works to them: the outlets you trust are what it looks for and what it weighs, and every line says which one it came from. Be aware of what that isn't — joris searches the live web, it doesn't subscribe to your feeds or open a page on demand, so a source that published nothing findable that night simply isn't in the digest.
Deduping across sources is the core of the template: one event covered by five outlets becomes a single line with the primary cited, so a busy morning stays a sixty-second read.
Leave a one-line note — “drop crypto” — and it's muted from the next run. Steering is always on, so the digest converges on your beat over a week.
Whenever you set — most people pick just before their morning news meeting, so it's the first thing waiting. You can run it twice a day too.
People who run this routine tend to add one of these within a fortnight.
Your topics, read across the live web overnight, grouped into themes with a line on why each one matters to you.
Explore →Different job, different document. Tell us the output you'd want waiting for you and we'll build the template.
Ask us →A tender board. A court list. One competitor's every move. Ten regulators and nothing else. Describe the document you'd want on your screen before the meeting — we design new output templates in days, and it lands on your existing plan.
Name your beat and the outlets you trust, pick a time, and the first digest is waiting in the morning. Tell it what to drop and the next one holds to it — no filter builder, no settings page.
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