A generic news podcast covers what an editor thinks everyone should hear. A personalized daily news podcast covers what you follow: your newsletters, your feeds, your channels, your topics. Here is how to build one.
What "personalized" should mean
A genuinely personalized audio brief is:
- Source-led. Built from the specific newsletters, feeds, and channels you chose, not a general wire.
- Summarized. Condensed into a few minutes, not a full read-through of everything.
- Deduped. When several sources cover the same story, you hear it once.
- Scheduled. Delivered each morning (or on your schedule) so it becomes a habit.
- Linked. The written version points back to every source for when you want more.
How to set one up
- Choose your sources. The newsletters, RSS feeds, YouTube channels, and docs you would otherwise read.
- Pick a schedule. Daily for fast topics, weekly for a wrap-up.
- Generate the brief. Sources are filtered into what changed, what matters, and what to skip.
- Listen. Play the audio version like a short podcast, then open originals on demand.
Where this beats the alternatives
- vs. a generic news podcast: it is your sources and topics, not someone else's.
- vs. reading everything: it is a few minutes of audio instead of an inbox.
- vs. one-off AI audio tools: it updates automatically from your sources every day, rather than requiring you to re-add material each time.
How Skimless does it
Skimless turns the sources you follow into a daily brief and an audio version you can listen to like a podcast. It is personalized by construction: you pick the sources, it does the filtering, and you get a short, sourced briefing every day.
Related: Listen to your newsletters and feeds as a daily podcast, Using NotebookLM for daily news, and How to turn articles and newsletters into a podcast.