Ask Leo to read the articles in your feeds and highlight crucial sentences
Reading through a large number of articles every day can be time-consuming, especially if those articles are long.
Helping you save time is a problem we are very passionate about, so we are excited to release today a new Leo skill called Summarization.
We have taught Leo to read and summarize the articles in your feeds so that you can more efficiently scan through articles and determine which ones are relevant.
Leo automatically reads all the articles in your feeds and summarizes them.
Articles lists showcase those Leo summaries as articles descriptions.
Leo summaries in article lists
When you open an article, Leo also highlights the key sentences which are part of the summary. The goal is to help you get to the key insights more efficiently.
Leo reads and highlights the most important sentences
Board newsletters and slack integration also take advantage of the Leo summaries for the article descriptions.
Leo lets you track specific topics, companies, and keywords in your feeds
Broad business and tech publications produce hundreds of articles per week. Not all those articles are relevant to the topics, companies, or products you care about. Manually filtering out the noise can be overwhelming and time-consuming.
Relevance is a problem we are very passionate about. We have spent the last two years designing and building Leo, your AI research assistant to help declutter your feeds and save time.
Unlike opaque recommendation engines, Leo has a set of skills that let you define and control what is relevant to you.
We are excited to show you how the Leo Topic skill lets you track specific topics, companies, and keywords in your feeds.
Leo knows about all the companies, people, and products listed in Wikipedia and in the news. You can ask Leo to look for any of those named entities (and their known aliases) and prioritize articles that are a match.
You can, for example, look for mentions of your competitors or prospects in your industry or tech feeds.
Train Leo to prioritize mentions of Tesla across a set of trusted business sources
Smart Topics
Leo understands how to recognize articles about hundreds of “smart” topics (like artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, blockchain, energy, health, etc..). He’ll be looking for thousands of different terms related to that smart topic. We designed smart topics because an article can be about artificial intelligence without including the term “artificial intelligence”.
Train Leo to prioritize #AI across a set of broad business sources
We continuously teach Leo new smart topics. If there is a specific topic you would like to sponsor, please email leo@feedly.com
Keyword matches
You can also ask Leo to look for exact matches of a keyword you are interested in. In this mode, Leo behaves like a saved search.
Train Leo to look for exact matches of the “downsizing” keyword in your business feeds
Refine with AND and OR
You can design more sophisticated priorities by combining multiple topics using AND and OR. AND means that both of the topics need to be present. OR means that either of the topics needs to be present.
Train Leo to look for mentions of DNA or CRISPER and cancer in your health industry feeds
Combine with other skills
The topic skill can be composed with all the other Leo skills allowing you, for example, to easily prioritize articles that reference a product launch (business event skill) while also being related to #artificial intelligence (topic skill)
Train Leo to prioritize product launch articles related to #AI
Or high severity software vulnerabilities (cybersecurity skill) related to docker (topic skill)
Train Leo to prioritize critical Docker vulnerabilities
Continuously learning
You can use the Leo “less like this” down arrow to correct Leo when a topic detection is incorrect. This feedback is channeled to the Feedly ML Team and to the datasets used to train Leo, making topics increasingly more accurate and relevant over time.
Leo continuously learns from your feedback
Train Your Leo Now
We are excited to see many Feedly users declutter their feeds and dig deeper into the topics and trends that matter to them. Sign up today and discover what Leo can do for you!
If you are interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, you can join the Feedly Community Slack. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!
Have you ever wished Google Assistant could read you the articles in your Feedly? Now it can.
Nick Felker has created a Google Assistant Action that integrates Google Assistant and Feedly.
Thanks to the Feedly action, Google Assistant can list the headlines in your feeds, read specific articles, and even save articles into boards for later access.
We are looking for fifty users to test drive the beta experience and provide Nick feedback on what works and what could be improved. If you are curious about how listening to your Feedly feels, join the beta program!
Easily track key business events like funding events, product launches, or partnerships.
Industries are changing at a faster pace than ever. Keeping up with new threats and opportunities can be overwhelming and time-consuming.
Today, we’re excited to announce a new Leo skill that lets you easily track key business events like funding events, product launches, or partnerships.
We have trained Leo to detect and understand funding events. This means that you can now ask Leo to read your tech, business or industry-specific feed and prioritize articles related to funding events – saving you a tremendous amount of time.
Track funding events in your feeds
Product Launches
We have also trained Leo to detect and understand product launches.
Track product launch announcements in your feeds
Analysts and marketers can now train Leo to read their trusted industry publications and alert them when competitors launch new products in their space.
Partnership Announcements
Finally, you can also easily prioritize the fraction of articles referencing partnership announcements.
Track partnership announcements in your feeds
You are In Control
Business Events become even more potent once you combine them with other Leo skills.
For example, you can train Leo to prioritize articles referencing a product launch (business event skill) and related to #artificial intelligence (topic skill).
Track funding announcements related to #artificial intelligence
Continuously Learning
You can use the Leo prompt or the “less like this” down arrow to correct Leo when the event detection is incorrect. This feedback helps make Leo continuously smarter.
Tell Leo when he has detected a wrong event so that he can learn
Trained across 24 industries
Different industries use different vocabulary to describe these business events so we trained Leo across 24 different industries.
Leo’s industries
Train Your Leo Now
We are excited to see many Feedly users declutter their feeds and dig deeper into the topics and trends that matter to them. Sign up today and discover what Leo can do for you!
If you are interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, you can join the Feedly Community Slack. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!
We have been teaching Leo how to read and analyze information so that he can declutter your feeds. With Leo, instead of spending hours going through hundreds of articles every day, you can free your mind, focus on what matters, and save time.
Unlike opaque algorithms, Leo gives you total control over your feeds. Leo has a set of skills that help him understand the world and enable you to define what is relevant to you.
Leo allows you to prioritize topics, trends, and keywords of choice; deduplicate repetitive news; mute irrelevant information; summarize articles, and so much more.
Leo’s skills let him read and analyze articles
The Topic skill lets you prioritize specific keywords, mentions, topics, and trends.
The Like-Board skill lets you train Leo by example. If you have curated over the time a board of specific topics or trends, you can ask Leo to read that board, understand what you are interested in, and prioritize future articles he thinks you’re likely to save to that board.
The Business Event skill lets you track industry activities such as funding events, partnerships announcements, product launches, leadership change, etc.
Leo is much more sophisticated than a simple news filtering tool. It’s a true AI that uses machine learning and NLP to filter out the noise.
Jon Henshaw (Lead SEO Analyst – CBS Interactive)
See Leo in Action
Imagine that you follow a broad business feed connected to many sources with thousands of new articles per month.
You can ask Leo to read all the articles and prioritize the most insightful ones in the new Priority Tab.
Leo prioritizes the more relevant articles in the new Priority tab
With Leo, you are in control of the priorities.
Let’s imagine you are interested in the autonomous car trend. With just a few clicks, you can train Leo on this new priority:
Ask Leo to prioritize articles about autonomous cars
Once trained, Leo continuously reads all articles in your feed and prioritizes the ones mentioning autonomous cars.
Articles prioritized by Leo have a green priority label, which gives you a clear understanding of why the article was prioritized. You can then take further actions such as Refine Priority, Pause or Remove that priority.
Each prioritized article has a label and an explanation
Leo is smart! He continuously learns from your feedback:
When you save an article to a board, Leo considers that action a positive signal that reinforces Leo’s learning.
When Leo is wrong, you can use the “Less Like This” down arrow button to correct Leo and refine future recommendations.
Use the Less Like This down arrow button to correct Leo
Leo helps us to find the signals in the noise. With Leo, we can automate our knowledge gathering and focus on growing our expertise.
Tino Klähne (Head of Strategic Design – Lufthansa Innovation Hub)
Train Your Leo Now
We are excited to see many Feedly users declutter their feeds and dig deeper into the topics and trends that matter to them. Sign up today and discover what Leo can do for you!
If you are interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, you can join the Feedly Community Slack. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!
People love RSS because it lets you to aggregate in one place all the topics and information you care about. No more zigzagging.
People also love RSS because of its control and transparency. It is not a feed that tries to manipulate and monetize your attention. It is a feed that feeds your mind and makes you smarter.
But sometimes RSS feeds can become noisy.
For example, you might follow broad sources like Forbes but only care about narrow topics like FinTech or climate change. Or you might have a keyword alert for General Electric but only care about product launches and partnerships. Or you might have a cybersecurity feed but want to focus your attention on the most critical software vulnerabilities first.
That noise can be overwhelming and make you waste time.
This is a problem we are very passionate about and have been focusing on over the last 18 months.
Today, we are excited to announce Leo, your AI research assistant.
We have been teaching Leo how to read so that he can help you declutter your feeds and dig deeper into the topics and trends you care about without losing control.
Leo reads and prioritizes the most relevant articles in your feeds
Leo continuously reads your feeds and short-lists the most relevant articles in the priority tab.
For example, you might have a broad business feed connected to HBR, Bloomberg, NY Times, etc. with thousands of new articles per month.
You can train Leo to read those 1,000+ articles and prioritize the 30 or so related to specific companies (Slack), topics (#leadership) or trends (Facebook and #crypto) you care about.
Leo ships with six core skills
Leo is not a black box recommendation engine. Instead, Leo ships with a set of skills that gives you control over defining what information is important to you:
The Topic skill lets you prioritize mentions of topics, keywords, people, companies, products, etc.
The Like Board skill learns by example based on articles you’ve saved to boards and prioritizes similar articles
The Business Event skill lets you track product launches, funding events, partnerships, etc.
The Security Threat skill lets you prioritize articles related to critical software vulnerabilities and specific vendors.
The Mute Filter skill let you remove articles mentioning specific keywords and topics.
The Deduplication skill removes duplicate articles from feeds and keyword alerts
You can easily assemble these skills into Leo models and preview in real-time what kind of information Leo will prioritize.
Creating a Leo model
Control and transparency are core Leo design principles.
All the articles prioritized by Leo have a green priority marker. Clicking on that marker offers an explanation of why the article was prioritized and the opportunity to refine, pause or remove that priority.
Control and transparency
Leo learns from both positive and negative feedback:
When a recommendation is useful, you can save it to a board to send Leo a positive signal.
When a recommendation is not useful, you can use the “Less-Like-This” down arrow button to correct Leo.
Feedback and continuous learning
Leo learns from your feedback and gets continuously smarter!
Leo is generally available to all Feedly Teams users and in early access to Pro+ users. If you have any questions or feedback regarding Leo, you are welcome to join the Feedly Lab Slack and connect with the dev team.
As part of the redesign of the Left Navigation bar, we are going to change the theme system on the Web to be more consistent with the theming on mobile: offering users the choice between a white theme and a dark theme.
Here is a preview of what the dark theme might look like
Upcoming Feedly Web Dark Theme
And here is the sister white theme
Upcoming Feedly Web White Theme
If you want to participate to the design review, please join the Feedly Lab Slack.
As part of the redesign of the Left Navigation bar, we are going to change the theme system on the Web to be more consistent with the theming on mobile: offering users the choice between a white theme and a dark theme.
Here is a preview of what the dark theme might look like
Upcoming Feedly Web Dark Theme
And here is the sister white theme
Upcoming Feedly Web White Theme
If you want to participate to the design review, please join the Feedly Lab Slack.
Some of the sources you follow in Feedly are broader than the topics and trends you care about. That additional noise can add up and become overwhelming or result in you wasting precious time.
We believe that noise is the enemy and we have been building a new Leo skill called Mute Filters to let you cancel that noise.
In this article, we will show you how to use Leo mute filters to mute keywords, companies, people, topics, authors, sites, and more.
Want to avoid a spoiler about Game of Thrones until you have finished reading all the books or tired of hearing about Pokemon Go or the latest Apple monitor?
Train Leo to mute Game of Thrones
You can train Leo to mute specific keywords and remove all mentions of those keywords from your feeds, temporarily or permanently.
Note: with Leo Mute Filters, you no longer need to use quotes around phrases with spaces. Leo will take care of converting the input into the right query.
Mute companies
Curating content to share on Social Media and want to avoid mentions of your competitors?
Train Leo to mute mentions of SAP in your business feed
You can train Leo to mute each of your competitors and automatically remove all the articles mentioning those competitors.
Mute people
Want to avoid articles about specific celebrities, politicians, or executives?
Train Leo to mute mentions of Kim Kardashian
Creating a Leo mute filter for a celebrity, politician or executive will automatically remove all the articles that mention that person from your feed.
Mute topics
Following a broad source like TechCrunch, Wired and Forbes but do not care about topics like gaming? Or following a keyword alert for a public company but do not care about financials or market reports?
With Leo mute filters, you can mute topics and increase the focus of your feeds. Leo ships with 1,000 pre-trained topics.
Mute authors
Do not like a specific author from one of the sources you follow?
Train Leo to mute a specific author with the author: operator
With the author: operator, you can train Leo to look for specific authors and mute all the articles from that author in your feed. (Sorry Katherine, we actually love your work!)
Mute title patterns
Want to remove articles which have a specific keyword in their title?
Train Leo to look for a keyword in the title of an article
With the title: prefix, you can train Leo to look for a mention of a keyword in the title of the article and mute the matches.
Mute sites
Finding some of the sources referenced in Google News Keyword Alerts irrelevant?
Train Leo to mute specific sites using the site: operator
With the site: prefix, you can train Leo to mute specific sites from your keyword alerts.
Forever or temporarily
When you create a Leo mute filter, you can specify a duration.
Select a duration
Once you have trained Leo with a mute filter, you can easily remove, pause or resume that filter via the Train Leo page.
Pause or remove a mute filter
Like with all the other Leo skills, it was important for us that you always feel in control and can continuously refine your Leo as your needs evolve.
While reading
When reading articles, Leo will highlight the most salient entities mentioned in the content. This makes it easy to click on them and priorities or mute those entities.
Mute an entity while reading
You can also highlight any snippet of text and mute that phrase
Highlight and mute any phrase
Finally, when reading an article, you can click on the Less Like This button and easily mute one of the topics Leo has associated with the article
Train Leo to mute a topic vis Less Like This
On mobile or on the web
The Leo mute filter skill is available both on the Web and on mobile (version 65+).
You can train Leo to mute topics and keywords on mobile.
From a feed
Train Leo to mute mentions of Apple on your Business feed
From an article
Train Leo to mute mentions of Spark New Zealand
From less like this (long swipe from right to left)
Train Leo to mute a topic via Less Like This
Curious about trying Leo Mute Filters on some of your feeds? Join the Leo program
Pro users will be able to continue to use a more basic version of mute filters. The syntax of those mute filters have changed to the v2 syntax to allow more efficient processing on the back end.
Some of the v1 mute filters using advanced queries can not be migrated to v2 will remain active as legacy filters until user delete them.
Are there limits to the number of Leo mute filters a user or team can create?
One of the benefit of the Leo mute filters is that they can be processed more efficiently by our back-end. As a result, we are increasing the limit of Leo mute filters for Teams user from 100 total to 100 per feed.
Can non-Teams user access Leo?
We will be offering Leo to non-team users later this year via a Feedly Pro+ priced at $12/month. You can requestearly access to Pro+ here.
Can a mute filter target a specific source?
No. Mute filters can target a list of sources (what we call a feed) or all your feeds.
Some of the sources you follow in Feedly are broader than the topics and trends you care about. That additional noise can add up and become overwhelming or result in you wasting precious time.
We believe that noise is the enemy and we have been building a new Leo skill called Mute Filters to let you cancel that noise.
In this article, we will show you how to use Leo mute filters to mute keywords, companies, people, topics, authors, sites, and more.
Want to avoid a spoiler about Game of Thrones until you have finished reading all the books or tired of hearing about Pokemon Go or the latest Apple monitor?
Train Leo to mute Game of Thrones
You can train Leo to mute specific keywords and remove all mentions of those keywords from your feeds, temporarily or permanently.
Note: with Leo Mute Filters, you no longer need to use quotes around phrases with spaces. Leo will take care of converting the input into the right query.
Mute companies
Curating content to share on Social Media and want to avoid mentions of your competitors?
Train Leo to mute mentions of SAP in your business feed
You can train Leo to mute each of your competitors and automatically remove all the articles mentioning those competitors.
Mute people
Want to avoid articles about specific celebrities, politicians, or executives?
Train Leo to mute mentions of Kim Kardashian
Creating a Leo mute filter for a celebrity, politician or executive will automatically remove all the articles that mention that person from your feed.
Mute topics
Following a broad source like TechCrunch, Wired and Forbes but do not care about topics like gaming? Or following a keyword alert for a public company but do not care about financials or market reports?
With Leo mute filters, you can mute topics and increase the focus of your feeds. Leo ships with 1,000 pre-trained topics.
Mute authors
Do not like a specific author from one of the sources you follow?
Train Leo to mute a specific author with the author: operator
With the author: operator, you can train Leo to look for specific authors and mute all the articles from that author in your feed. (Sorry Katherine, we actually love your work!)
Mute title patterns
Want to remove articles which have a specific keyword in their title?
Train Leo to look for a keyword in the title of an article
With the title: prefix, you can train Leo to look for a mention of a keyword in the title of the article and mute the matches.
Mute sites
Finding some of the sources referenced in Google News Keyword Alerts irrelevant?
Train Leo to mute specific sites using the site: operator
With the site: prefix, you can train Leo to mute specific sites from your keyword alerts.
Forever or temporarily
When you create a Leo mute filter, you can specify a duration.
Select a duration
Once you have trained Leo with a mute filter, you can easily remove, pause or resume that filter via the Train Leo page.
Pause or remove a mute filter
Like with all the other Leo skills, it was important for us that you always feel in control and can continuously refine your Leo as your needs evolve.
While reading
When reading articles, Leo will highlight the most salient entities mentioned in the content. This makes it easy to click on them and priorities or mute those entities.
Mute an entity while reading
You can also highlight any snippet of text and mute that phrase
Highlight and mute any phrase
Finally, when reading an article, you can click on the Less Like This button and easily mute one of the topics Leo has associated with the article
Train Leo to mute a topic vis Less Like This
On mobile or on the web
The Leo mute filter skill is available both on the Web and on mobile (version 65+).
You can train Leo to mute topics and keywords on mobile.
From a feed
Train Leo to mute mentions of Apple on your Business feed
From an article
Train Leo to mute mentions of Spark New Zealand
From less like this (long swipe from right to left)
Train Leo to mute a topic via Less Like This
Curious about trying Leo Mute Filters on some of your feeds? Join the Leo program
Pro users will be able to continue to use a more basic version of mute filters. The syntax of those mute filters have changed to the v2 syntax to allow more efficient processing on the back end.
Some of the v1 mute filters using advanced queries can not be migrated to v2 will remain active as legacy filters until user delete them.
Are there limits to the number of Leo mute filters a user or team can create?
One of the benefit of the Leo mute filters is that they can be processed more efficiently by our back-end. As a result, we are increasing the limit of Leo mute filters for Teams user from 100 total to 100 per feed.
Can non-Teams user access Leo?
We will be offering Leo to non-team users later this year via a Feedly Pro+ priced at $12/month. You can requestearly access to Pro+ here.
Can a mute filter target a specific source?
No. Mute filters can target a list of sources (what we call a feed) or all your feeds.
