Decide what is worth reading, before you read it
A three-step workflow that tells you what a story actually is, whether it touches you, and what to do about it — so a long article becomes a yes or a no.
The problem
The cost of news is not reading it, it is reading the wrong things. Forty headlines a morning and no way to tell which three matter to you specifically means either reading all of them or guessing.
The workflow
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Strip the story down to what changed, so the rest of the workflow is reading facts rather than a headline.
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2
Ask whether it reaches you at all. Most stories stop here, which is the point.
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For the ones that do reach you, turn it into something you can act on this week.
What you put in
A link to a news article, or the text of one. Run it on anything you would otherwise have skimmed and half-remembered.
What you get back
The last step answers under these headings. They are read from What Should I Do Next? itself, so this list changes when the template does — it is not a transcript of a run.
- What options are presented?
- What are the pros and cons of each?
- Which factors should I prioritize?
- What next steps should I consider?
Setting it up
- Open the workflow builder and start a new workflow.
- Add the three templates above as steps, in that order.
- Leave each step on its recommended effort — triage is the one place where a slow, expensive first pass defeats the purpose.
- Save it, then run it from the Chrome extension or from a connected AI client.
If it does not work
Everything comes back as relevant.
The second step reads your profile. With an empty profile it has nothing to measure against, so it errs towards yes. Fill in what you do and your industry on the profile page and the same workflow gets much more willing to say no.
The third step repeats the second.
That usually means the article had no action in it. A workflow cannot invent a next step, and one that did would be the least trustworthy thing on the page.