# How to create a personalized daily news podcast

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

1. **Choose your sources.** The newsletters, RSS feeds, YouTube channels, and docs you would otherwise read.
2. **Pick a schedule.** Daily for fast topics, weekly for a wrap-up.
3. **Generate the brief.** Sources are filtered into what changed, what matters, and what to skip.
4. **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](/resources/listen-to-newsletters-as-podcast), [Using NotebookLM for daily news](/resources/notebooklm-for-daily-news), and [How to turn articles and newsletters into a podcast](/resources/turn-articles-into-a-podcast).