- Ability to reorder the sections in the Daily Briefing email
You can already do this! Drag the sections in the Daily Briefing options popover.
- Add a custom LLM prompt to the Daily Briefing
That’s what the custom sections are for. It’s not a whole prompt but it is a custom keyword to search for.
- Daily briefings should link to the article’s URL rather than back to a NewsBlur URL (or maybe to both?)
Instead of adding an option to the settings popover, I’ll add an icon next to the title that links directly to the story. Good idea!
- Option to display the full title instead of just a “long” story title preview, on iOS
Can you show a screenshot? It should be the full title.
- Import a list of keywords into Intelligence Trainer, and relatedly, the ability to export current training in an appropriate neutral format
You can export training through the API, and honestly, if you have an advanced need to import a long list, the API is great for that. There is a NewsBlur CLI tool at https://newsblur.com/features/cli and that can easily be used by AI agents to do what you’re asking.
- Keyword specific RSS feed, extending the current (awesome) email and iOS alerts functionality
So the new premium archive feature for notifications for specific classifiers but in an RSS feed? That’s interesting. Not sure how you would access it. The individual classifier is already becoming a bit overloaded, and an extra icon just for the RSS feed might be a bit much, but it is the type of idea I like to build. Anybody else want to see this?
- Move (to another folder) and rename Newsletter feeds, and the ability to merge multiple email-senders into a single feed.
I’ just launched a feature to automatically merge email newsletters if they belong to the same List-Id. We’ll see how it works in practice. Building a whole UI around merging email newsletters senders seems cumbersome and overbuilt.
- Respect training in Widely Read and Long Reads: in particular, if I am not subscribed to a feed, I should still be able to mute it (case in point: the Ask a Manager blog’s feed)
They should do that. I’ll see if I can fix that now.
- The top half of the page is covered with rectangles and the UI is completely unusable on Add + Discover sites. I think someone else has pointed this out on the forum elsewhere.
Please share a screenshot, I don’t know what you mean. It looks good to me.
- Article length (or reading time) based filter
Interesting, we just launched a feature for youtube videos under 3 minutes getting a short video tag. A classifier for meta-data would be interesting. Any other metadata filter you can think of that would be useful?
- Export saved stories (or URLs) in a neutral format
The API is great for that. The MCP server and CLI tool both make that easy to do. https://newsblur.com/features/mcp
- I assume this is on the roadmap, but: (1) add Widely Read and Long Reads sections to iOS app (2) update iOS to the new Add + Discover Sites UI (to match the web version) especially the ability to add Web Feeds directly from the iOS app
I’ll get to that right now. I did port the new discover sites UI to iOS but it’s a bit of a mess and I gave up.
- Option to silence specific (firehose/noisy) feeds like Google News from All Site Stories
Why not just use training on those feeds to thumbs down the feed but thumbs up specific mentions you want. The new AI filters can help greatly, and for a firehose type feed, it will cost less than $1/month to filter a noisy feed.
- “Open in NewsBlur” for any webpage to read its full text, without clutter: especially great for podcasts if one could use NewsBlur’s mini-player
I have a bookmarklet update / browser extension that can do this, but there’s so many good reader mode extensions out there already.
- Ability to change Newsblur icon color on iOS
Interesting idea!