Using your briefing

There are two places to read: the briefing itself — in your inbox and on your channel page — and the dashboard, an interactive view of your stories at app.betabriefing.ai.

The emailed briefing is the daily read. The dashboard is where you browse, revisit, and curate over time.

The dashboard at a glance

The dashboard

The dashboard organizes your stories into a few views:

  • Top — the front page: the day's most important stories first.
  • Feed — everything, in order, when you want the full stream.
  • Topics — your stories grouped by topic, with a page per topic.
  • Daily Briefing — your most recent full edition, as delivered.

Alongside those, a side rail keeps your curated lists: Saved, Liked, and Archived.

The dashboard feed

Saving, liking, and archiving

Every story has quick actions:

  • Save — keep it for later; it lands in Saved.
  • Like — mark what you found valuable; it collects in Liked. Likes also help your briefing learn what you care about.
  • Archive — clear something you're done with; it moves to Archived (you can bring it back).
  • Copy for AI — copy the story as a ready-to-paste prompt to dig in further with an AI assistant like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.

Your Saved list

The reader

Click any story to open the reader — a focused panel with the full write-up and links to the original sources, without leaving the dashboard.

The reader panel

Topics and preferences

Your topics are the lens — they decide what the research pipeline looks for. To reshape coverage in plain language — adding a topic, dropping one, going deeper — use Smart Edit (portal.betabriefing.ai/portal/smart-edit); just say what you want and it sorts out the rest (see Your settings → Changing depth or focus).

Delivery preferences — your schedule, timezone, audio voice, and email theme — live on the Settings page (portal.betabriefing.ai/portal/settings).

Making a request

Want something the settings don't cover? The Requests page (portal.betabriefing.ai/portal/requests) lets you send a free-form note — and optionally record a short audio message — straight to the team. Use it for anything from "cover this beat" to "something looks off."

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