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I don't like having the feeling that I'm missing out on novelties from the subjects in which I am very interested.

I don't like having the feeling that I'm missing out on novelties from the subjects in which I am very interested. But I just don't have the time to absorb even half of it. With the current overflow of information, I'm looking for a great solution or most likely make my own. A service that will keep me updated very quickly in a frequency of my choosing (let's say once a day or twice a week). "News for busy people", essentially.

Here's what it'll look like: you pick between 1 to 3 of your favorite subjects (technology in general, science, business, programming, politics, etc.). Disciplines on which your work or main hobby/interest depend.

Now two things happen to prepare my "latest-knowledge pill":

Each subject's news will be selected based on relevance using a scoring system:
Based on the popularity from other services (Flipboard, Reddit, Feedly, Alexa ranking, etc.)
Using AI and the history of the items on which you showed interested by clicking them and wanting to know more
Sending your preferred news about your selected subjects is not enough, it's still way too much information to process. I'll either find a way to generate syntactically correct, and well-crafted summaries with AI or each subject will have at least one human editor, versed in the relevant area, that will synthesize the main concepts from each article into a bite-sized news
To sum up, you'll get the top news on your preferred subjects synthesized to no more than a tweet's length. It'll take 10 seconds to scour through everything you would have missed otherwise.

Furthermore, you can easily see if there's anything worth investing your time to dig deeper (the news source would be one click away)

What do you think? The delivery method is still undecided: I think this would work great through e-mail but for some reason, it "feels wrong". I think I like more the idea of having a small app dormant in your OS's taskbar and every X days show a little alert that you click and it drops down (or up) with the 10-20 "pills" that you can scan in a few seconds.

I've been trying to find the closest competitor but no luck. Do you guys know of anything like this? What do you think of all this? Please criticize everything and share any feedback.

on February 1, 2019