3 examples of Leo Web Alerts you’ll want to copy

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How experts in industry intelligence, cybersecurity, and biopharma created Leo Web Alerts to track key topics and trends

Don’t you wish you could look over the shoulder of top industry research specialists, cybersecurity analysts, or biopharma researchers and see how they use their tools to keep up and save time? Here, we’ll show you three examples of Leo Web Alerts from real Feedly users, which they use to track specific topics and trends in their industries. 

Once you create your Leo Web Alert, Leo continuously reads through millions of articles and flags specific ones based on topics and concepts you choose (not just keywords). Leo understands concepts like a human, but he searches millions of sources that a human couldn’t easily get through. 

Let’s take a look at a few industry-specific examples. 

Skip to the example closest to your industry

Leo Web Alerts for industry intelligence 

Funding events can say a lot about the hot startups in your industry. You can see how much companies like yours are raising, or stay informed about the top investors in your space. Leo understands funding events, so you can create a Leo Web Alert for funding events AND your industry. 

In this example, if I want to track funding events in the insurance industry, I can create and follow a Leo Web Alert using AND. In this example, we’re refining the number of articles per week to 53, so I’ll only see the top 53 results each week. 

I can track funding events in the insurance industry with this Leo Web Alert.

Leo Web Alerts for cybersecurity intelligence

Leo understands key security intelligence concepts so that you can easily define the topics and threats that are critical to you. 

In this example, a Feedly for Cybersecurity customer wanted to track cyber attacks in the telecom industry. They created a Web Alert for cyber attacks AND telecom industry, across a selection of cybersecurity groups of sources.

I can track cyber attacks in the telecom industry across cybersecurity-specific sources. 

Leo Web Alerts for biopharma research 

Teams who use Feedly for biopharma research often need to track clinical trials related to diseases they develop drugs for, or diseases their company is interested in. Since Leo understands diseases, you can track articles about the disease and other concepts. 

Here, one Feedly for biopharma customer created a Leo Web Alert to track cancer (neoplasms) AND mRNA. They selected three biopharma-specific groups of sources that we pre-curated: Biopharma Business, Biopharma Regulatory, and Science Journals. Then, they used the ‘Articles per week’ slide to receive 19 articles per week. 

I can track Neoplasms and mRNA across groups of biopharma-specific sources. 

Inspired? Create your own Leo Web Alerts

Need help creating your first few Leo Web Alerts? Schedule a quick session with a customer success manager and we’ll set up your Leo Web Alerts together. 

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How can I make sure my Web Alerts aren’t missing anything important?

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Concrete steps to widen your information gathering and never miss a thing

Asking Leo to monitor topics, trends and concepts you care about with a Web Alert  is a great way to make sure you never miss what’s important to you. Leo’s advanced knowledge graph allows him to recognize topics and concepts like a human research assistant that never sleeps, saving you countless hours.

When you set up a Leo Web Alert, he will read hundreds of millions of sources across the web, even sources you aren’t already following. We’ve previously talked about refining your searches to reduce noise, but in some cases you may prefer to widen the net.

If this is the case, this article is for you! Below are our best tips for making Leo Web Alerts as broad as possible. This is especially helpful if your topic is very niche, or your job requires you to keep on top of even small mentions. 

Ask Leo to read ‘Everything’ instead of just ‘Titles’

If you never want to miss a mention of your topic, you can ask him to look for ‘Everything’ across the web, not just article ‘Titles’. This ensures Leo will find even small mentions in long articles. This is a great way to ensure you’re never missing relevant commentary across the web.

<em>Example: Track product launches and partnerships from Apple in the finance industry, even when they are mentioned in the body of an article rather than the title.</em>
Once I ask Leo to find the content I need in the body of the article rather than in the title only, I am sure I am not missing out on anything in my Leo Web Alert.

Tell Leo to be less picky by increasing the number of articles he should show you

You can further expand your feed by requesting more articles per week related to this topic. Think of this like telling Leo not to leave anything out of your feed, even small mentions. This is especially important if your job involves close tracking of niche concepts. 

I can ask Leo to find more articles for me every week by surfacing content from more niche sources.

Layer Web Alerts and Google Alerts to compare the differences

Generally speaking, Leo Web Alerts will be more relevant than Google News Alerts or keyword alerts. This is because Google News Alerts limit your search only to top news and trade publications, and keyword alerts track exact keyword matches, rather than smart concepts. 

When comparing a similar Google Alert and Leo Web Alert inside Feedly, you can see that there is some overlap, but Leo surfaces even more relevant articles, and Leo gives you the ability to refine your search as needed to decrease noise. 

Leo flags relevant articles about Apple product launches and partnerships in the finance industry and adds them to my Web Alert.

If you’re not ready to convert your Google Alerts, you can have both in a feed! Google Alerts are indicated by the magnifying glass icon, while Leo Web Alerts are indicated by the bullseye icon. If you want to compare results between your two alerts, set them both up as sources for the same Feed, and you’ll be able to compare results side-by-side daily. 

When you’re ready, you can delete one of the alerts or refine your Leo Web Alert anytime by hitting ‘Refine’ in the upper right corner of your Web Alert.

When in doubt, we can help

We’ve been working hard on Leo Web Alerts behind the scenes, and helping you be successful is our top priority. If you’re still struggling to get your Feeds just right, we can help. Click below to schedule a short call with one of our experts, and we’ll have you up and running in no time. We can’t wait to meet you!

Web Alerts are a no-brainer for anyone who needs to be on top of things that matter to them. I found using Google Alerts inconvenient because I’d have to set them up outside Feedly. Now that I use Web Alerts, I am sure that I am keeping as much in Feedly as possible.”

Mark Evans, Principal Product Manager, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group

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How can I refine my Web Alerts to show me only what I’d like to see?

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A complete tutorial on finding what you need across the web using Leo Web Alerts

There’s a fine balance between reducing noise and never missing out on important information. When you know what topics you want to keep up with, but you aren’t sure what you might be missing, Leo can help with Web Alerts! 

Using Leo Web Alerts, you can effortlessly monitor hundreds of millions of sources across the web, and be confident that relevant articles will show up in your Feedly. Leo will read every source with a related topic, and flag the ones that match your alerts, so you always know where to look for relevant insights.

Unlike traditional keyword matching or search tools, Web Alerts leverages Leo’s advanced knowledge graph, so you can accurately track concepts, topics, and entities even when keywords don’t match exactly. 

So, how can you use Leo Web Alerts to be sure you’re getting the most relevant information, every day? Here, we’ll show you how. 

Ask Leo to search through ‘Titles’ only, instead of ‘Everything’

<em>Example: Track product launches from Fortune 500 companies in the retail industry, but only when they are mentioned in an article’s title (and therefore, the main idea of the story).</em>

When you’re setting up a Web Alert, Leo can track your topic across “Everything” — this means he will read article titles and the full text, searching for the concepts you’re interested in. 

This is a great way to make sure you’re never missing out, but can sometimes result in noise in your feed. For example, if your topic is mentioned in a long article, but is not the subject of the entire piece. To avoid this noise, you can switch to “Title” matching mode, and Leo will surface articles that mention your topic or concept in the title only.

Ask Leo to be more picky about which articles he shows you

You can further refine your feed by specifying how many articles per week you want to see related to this topic. Think of this like telling Leo how picky you would like him to be when he chooses which articles to show you.

This step can drastically reduce noise in your feed.

Specify the types of publications you want to read

Leo knows the difference between a research journal or a news article, and between a news article and a blog post, etc. This is incredibly helpful when you want to keep up with everything related to your topic of interest, but you only want to hear from experts. 

Under the “Sources” tab, you can select from a variety of source types.

<em>Example: In this example, I want to search through Strategy Magazines, Business Magazines, Tech Blogs and National Newspapers only. </em>

Exclude irrelevant companies, products, topics, or sources

Because Leo understands so many concepts, topics and business events, and is getting smarter all the time, I can also smartly exclude topics when I want to increase the relevance of my Web Alert. 

<em>Example: I want to see new product launches in the retail industry, but not ones related to the beverage </em>industry or from an irrelevant crypto source.

Our recommendation: start with a wide net, refine as you go 

Leo Web Alerts were created to help expand the scope of what could be surfaced inside Feedly. Even the best industry analysts can’t know about every possible source, and with the help of Web Alerts, they don’t have to! Now, with Leo as your AI research assistant, you can discover the right information easily, and over time, better understand what sources to follow directly. 

For the best results, we recommend starting with a wide net (Leo recommends the best settings for you by default), and using the preview screen to refine more. Web Alerts become a “source” for your specified Feed, and you can always go back and refine them further. 

Click on your Web Alert inside your Feed, and you’ll see a “Refine” button — this returns you to the screen where you originally set up this alert and allows you to update it as and when necessary.

Leo gets smarter as you give him more feedback. You can give Leo feedback by selecting “Less like this” on articles that aren’t quite right. Leo will adapt based on your feedback and become even more helpful over time.

<em>Click “Refine” if you need to narrow down your search at any time or give feedback for Leo to get smarter and provide better content to you. </em><br>

More of a visual person? Start with this short video

Stuck? We can help.

Schedule a quick session with a customer success manager and we’ll set up your Leo Web Alerts together.

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Industry newsletters where you can find more signal and less noise

Find your next must-read industry newsletter

Where do you go when you’re hungry for curated insights in a specific industry? Newsletters! 

Newsletters are the best place to get curated insights and in-depth analysis from experts. You get the best industry-specific news, without having to slog through social media to find insights on trends and competitors. 

Plus, now that you can get newsletters delivered to Feedly, we want to help you find quality industry newsletters that you can add to your feeds. We’re sharing 5 major industry newsletters with quality content and deep analysis, so you can find your next great read. 

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Unclog your inbox and read without distractions. Now available to all users in our Pro+ plan.

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Finance: Robinhood Snacks

“Your daily dose of financial news: The 3-minute newsletter with fresh takes on the financial news you need to start your day.” 

Robinhood Snacks is a mix of financial, business, and market news with a smart, punny tone.

Each piece of news includes an in-depth story and a key takeaway that helps you get the highlights. We especially appreciate how the plentiful emojis, GIFs, and snack puns make the newsletter easy to scan and keep things light in an industry that’s not always considered “fun.”

Petr, Customer Success Manager at Feedly, says “Robinhood Snacks helps me get the bigger picture about what to invest in. The other day, I liked how they analyzed the strategies behind two up-and-coming startups and gave a valuable takeaway.”

Health care: Axios Vitals

“Keep up with health care politics, policy and business, by health care reporter Caitlin Owens.”

The daily Axios Vitals newsletter starts with “1 big thing” that goes deep on a timely piece of health care news. The rest of the newsletter includes a variety of topics that intersect with different sub-sectors in health care: the impact of the economic environment on people’s health, scientific research, and drug discovery. You’ll find background knowledge and analysis so you can take away plenty of talking points. 

Especially during the overwhelming news cycle of the pandemic, Axios Vitals is a great place to look for quality coronavirus-related news.

Media and entertainment: Idea 57

“Atlantic Media’s weekly newsletter on the business of media.” 

Settle in with a cup of coffee and (or tea): this is a long one. Written by Atlantic Media’s strategy research team, Idea 57 covers a wide range of areas in the media and entertainment industry, including digital media, publishers, social media, traditional media. 

Each story includes a well-researched explanation and snapshots for easy consumption. You’ll find plenty of links to external content and videos so you can fall down a rabbit hole on a specific topic.

Retail: Retail Brew

“Stay up to date on the retail industry. All the news and insights retail pros need to know, all in one newsletter.”

“There’s so much happening in retail, but there isn’t a single source that curates retail news with a sense of humor.” said journalist Halie LeSavage to MediaPost when Retail Brew launched earlier in 2020.

Retail Brew now gives readers direct access to retail news—with a dose of humor. It was created by the team behind the popular Morning Brew newsletter.

Every day, LeSavage writes stories that are both entertaining and informative for a variety of readers: from grocers to direct-to-consumer companies and small businesses. Stories range from Black Friday and Cyber Monday news to pet subscription boxes.

Travel and hospitality: Airline Economics Online

“Airline Economics is the leading and largest finance & leasing global publication for the aviation sector, reaching industry professionals from lessors, investors, banks, airlines, law firms & MROs.”

The daily Airline Economics newsletter gets granular. In a time when airline news is moving so fast, it’s the place to keep up with everything from financials and acquisition news to regulatory news and changes in airline leadership. You’ll find deep analysis on new routes, schedule changes, and airport plans, and innovation trends, like General Motors’ recent investment in flying cars.

Lists we like 

There are so many quality newsletters out there. There’s also a lot of noise. To help you find even more newsletters where you can keep up with the topics and trends in your industry, check out 15 Newsletters That Will Make You Smarter and More Successful in 2020

For tech newsletters, we like CodeinWP’s list of  12 of the Best Tech Newsletters to Subscribe to in 2020.

Industry newsletters, delivered to Feedly

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Find the content you need with Biopharma Search Mode

Save time and find the biopharma content you need.

The amount of information published every day in the biopharma space is overwhelming and hard to skim through.

Today we’re excited to announce the launch of Biopharma Search Mode, a tool that allows you to save time in your research flow. You can drill down into the specific content you want, beyond your existing feeds and sources.

With Biopharma Search Mode, you can find articles you would have not found otherwise, discover new sources and save the pieces of content you find interesting. This feature is available to all Biopharma Enterprise users.

Let’s walk through an example of how you could use Biopharma Search Mode to find articles you need. Imagine you lead an R&D team at a biotech company and you want to learn about the latest breakthroughs related to cell therapies.

Create your search query

First, click on the search icon in the left navigation bar, and select ‘Search Across the Web’.

Type in a topic you want to research and select Biopharma Mode. When you search in Biopharma Mode, you’re searching across sources we’ve preselected based on biopharma users’ favorite industry-specific sources, and you’ll get less noise.

Go to the Power Search and select the Biopharma Mode

You’re in control

Ask Leo to search for “cell therapy” in any of the biopharma sources we curated for you. Create a search query and select “cell therapy” as the topic.

You can refine your query and combine topics with +AND and +OR.

You can create even more targeted queries by selecting the types of publications you want on the left-hand side: pick from 300 science journals, 800 biopharma trade publications, 80 regulatory sources, or 350 healthtech blogs.

For example, use +AND to focus on news related to cell therapies and biopharma companies, and select the Biopharma Business type of publications only.

Refine the search query to cell therapy and biopharma companies among trade publications

Go further and refine your search by excluding certain topics, or by selecting ‘Title Only’ vs ‘Entire Content’. Find more information about how to do this here.

Break down silos

Team Boards are the private spaces where you and your team can save the best content you discover in Feedly or on the web. You can bookmark, organize, and annotate content to share insights across your team and organization.

Once you’ve discovered a great new article, you can save it to a board and share it with the rest of your team via daily newsletters, Slack and Microsoft Teams notifications, or push it to other apps using our API.

Save the most insightful content to your boards

You can also click on the source name and see the other articles that the source has published. This is a powerful way to find new sources for niche topics. If the content is highly relevant, you can use the ‘Follow’ button to add that new source to one of your Team Feeds and receive the next articles published by that source.

Streamline your biopharma intelligence

We’re excited to see how your team will declutter your feeds and dig deeper into the biopharma news that matters to you. Sign up today and discover Feedly for Biopharma.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Feedly for Biopharma roadmap, you can book a demo call by clicking on the button above.

Track biopharma regulatory updates with Clinicaltrials.gov feeds

Streamline your biopharma intelligence by adding custom ClinicalTrials.gov feeds to your Feedly.

Clinical trial updates produce overwhelming amounts of information every day. But a small portion of these articles refers to the diseases and studies you want to monitor.

Cut through the noise and build custom RSS feeds on ClinicalTrials.gov with the information you need.

Go to ClinicalTrials.gov

You are the head of an AIDS research program in a large pharma company. You can create a query on ClinicalTrials.gov to look into clinical trial news coming from other research labs.

Go to ClinicalTrials.gov

Create your query

ClinicalTrials.gov covers a wide range of clinical trials that occur every day. You can either search a single keyword or create an advanced query with certain study types, locations, ages…

Select the disease you want to track

You can find more information about how to use the ClinicalTrials.gov search.

Subscribe to your custom CT.gov RSS feed

You can look into the results of your query and add additional filters if needed. When you are satisfied with the entries, click ‘Subscribe to RSS’.

This will lead you to the RSS feed you’ll have to copy.

Click ‘Subscribe to RSS’ on the top right-hand corner
We recommend selecting ‘Show studies added or modified in the last 14 days’. 
Copy the RSS link from this tab

Add your custom CT.gov RSS feed to your Feedly

Click ‘+’ on Feedly to paste the CT.gov RSS feed you just copied. Add it to any of the feeds you’d like and start reading your selected ClinicalTrials.gov content!

Paste your CT.gov RSS feed into your Feedly
Read, annotate and save the articles to your boards

Streamline your biopharma intelligence

We’re excited to see how your team will declutter your feeds and dig deeper into the biopharma news that matter to you. Sign up today and discover Feedly for Biopharma.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Feedly for Biopharma roadmap, you can demo a call by clicking on the button above. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!

Streamline your scientific research with PubMed feeds

Research biomedical literature by following custom PubMed feeds on Feedly.

Scientific journals produce overwhelming amounts of information every day. But a small portion of these articles refers to the biomedical information you need to research about.

Save time and keep up with the biomedical news you are looking for by following custom PubMed RSS feeds on Feedly.

Go to PubMed.gov

You are a scientist researching cancer and immunology. You can create an Advanced search query on PubMed and select the journals you want to research mentions of cancer in.

Go to PubMed.gov and click ‘Advanced’

Build your advanced query

PubMed covers a wide range of journals, biomedical terms and authors. The more specific your search query is, the more relevant results you will get.

Use PubMed’s Advanced Search Builder
You can choose the journals you want to research cancer in
You can select the diseases you want to research
We now have a complex query to look for mentions of Cancer in Nature, Nature Immunology, Current Biology and PLOS Biology


For more details about the various ways to create PubMed queries, you can read more information here.

Create your custom PubMed RSS feed

Once on the results page, you can further filter by article type, publication type, etc. Hit ‘Create RSS’ when you are ready to move forward. 

Click ‘Create RSS’ when you are happy with the results of your query
Copy the custom RSS feed that was just created

Add your custom PubMed RSS feed to your Feedly

Click on ‘+’ in your Feedly, paste the PubMed RSS feed you just created and add it to any of your feeds.

Paste the RSS link into the Search box
Annotate and save your PubMed content to your boards

Prioritize with Leo

Save time and prioritize genes or any other topic in your PubMed articles.

Create a Leo priority in your feed

Streamline your biopharma intelligence

We’re excited to see how your team will declutter your feeds and dig deeper into the biopharma news that matter to you. Sign up today and discover Feedly for Biopharma.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Feedly for Biopharma roadmap, you can schedule a demo call by clicking on the button above. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!

Leo recognizes pharmaceutical drugs from psychoactive drugs

We heard from lots of biopharma users that the Drugs topic could be improved and clarified, considering the different meanings it has.

We are excited to announce that you can now prioritize either pharmaceutical drugs or recreational drugs.

We have taught Leo to understand if an article is about pharma drugs or psychoactive ones to improve the relevance of his prioritization.

Let me show you how it works.

Pharmaceutical Drugs

Let’s imagine that you have a Biopharma Business feed and want to track updates about drugs treating cancer. Let’s train Leo to read this feed and cut through the noise for you.

Click ‘Train Leo’ and search for the new #Drugs (pharmaceutical) topic
Leo knows how to recognize articles about pharmaceutical drugs

You can see a preview of all the articles that Leo has recognized as related to pharmaceutical drugs and cancer. These articles will be prioritized in your feed.

Psychoactive Drugs

Now, you can do the same with psychoactive drugs. Let’s say you want to prioritize articles that are at the intersection of psychoactive drugs and mental health.

Search for the new #Drugs (psychoactive) Leo topic

Leo will continuously learn and get smarter as he prioritizes articles about pharma drugs or recreational drugs, letting you focus on the topics and trends that matter to you.

After two months of Leo utilization, I can say that he saved us two of the three hours that we needed weekly to do our job, with the same or better quality. Really performant. Good job and long life to Leo 😉

Jessyca Duer, UnitedHealth Group

Train your Leo now

We are excited to see many Feedly users declutter their feeds and dig deeper into the topics and trends that matter to them. Sign up today and discover what Leo can do for you!

If you are interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, you can join the Feedly Community Slack. 2020 will be a challenging year, but by staying informed, you can respond better and remain in control. 

Power Search across the web

The internet is a cavernous place. Opinion and insight can emerge from anywhere. Whether you’re new to Feedly or not, you want good, trusted publishers to teach you more about a certain topic, market or industry. 

Feedly already digests and presents updates from the sources you value. But to really stay ahead of the curve, it pays to search beyond the publishers you already follow – to the blogs, articles, reports, and debates that are turning heads, but almost buried among the noise online. 

That’s why we’ve given Feedly the ability to look further with Power Search across the web. It drills down into the specific information you want to find beyond your existing feeds and sources.

In this way, you can learn something new, discover new sources for future reference and easily share reputable insights with your colleagues and social network. It intersects the exact content you’re looking for with super-specific topics and publications. 

Here’s what Power Search across the Web does, and how to use it. 

Introducing Power Search across the web

Search is a relevance game. It’s easy to lose time in the wormhole of search engines. Meanwhile, the low hit rate of typical news aggregators and alert features can leave you pulling hairs out.

Feedly gets around this with a carefully vetted database of more than 40 million trusted web sources. Collectively, they publish 110 million articles, journals, and videos. on a daily basis. 

But that’s still a crazy amount of info and analysis. So we help you refine this down with buckets – categories of publications that make a search super granular. 

You can think of each bucket as a list of trusted publications that focus on a specific industry, function or topic. They tell the search exactly what to filter. You get hyper-relevant content that can be saved to a Feedly board and shared with your team or out into the wider world. Six popular buckets are surfaced automatically yet other, more narrow buckets can be chosen – we’ll show you how to do this later in our guide.

Discover what trade publications are saying about a company. Track topics on strategy sources. Bring up the conversation around a product in business magazines. The knowledge is yours to shape and tinker with. 

Run-through

Okay, let’s imagine you’re part of the Innovation Hub at Aéroports de Paris. You’re looking for ground-breaking stories and reports about the airline industry. 

First, click on the search icon to open Power Search, select the new Across the web tab, and search for the airlines topic.

Go to Power Search across the Web and search for airlines

You get instant access to highly relevant articles from expert and trusted sources.

Search across the web for the topic airlines

You can also search for companies, people, products, or other keywords you are interested in.

Narrow to specific publications

The initial search is performed against a set of default buckets: strategy magazines, trade publications, business magazines, and tech blogs.

But you can narrow your search to a specific slice of the web. Click on +PUBLICATIONS and lookup energy for example. This is a powerful way to find articles about airlines across a broad set of energy publications.

Search for the topic airlines in energy publications

Refine your query with Leo topics and business events

You can refine your query by adding additional parameters (topics or business events) using the +AND operator.

For example, you can easily search for product launches related to the airline industry by combining the airlines smart topic and the product launch business event

Create more advanced queries with AND, OR, and Leo topics and events

Cut through the noise with Exclude

Okay, now let’s remove some results you 100% don’t want to find. For instance, any mention of COVID-19…

The Exclude feature allows you to filter out specific topics or keywords from the search results. Click on Exclude > +Topic and enter COVID-19.

Use the exclude feature to filter out the noise

Advanced mode

If you are a power user, you can use the Title Only knob to let Feedly know if you want to search only in the title of articles or the entire content.

The where on the web feature also includes a funnel button gives you more control over which publications should be included in the buckets. Pick leading publications if you are searching for a popular term and pick all publications if you are searching for a niche topic and you want your search to be as broad as possible.

Make your Feedly better 

Once you’ve discovered a great new article, you can click on the source name and see the other articles that the source has published. This is a powerful way to find new sources for niche topics.

If the content is highly relevant, you can use the +FOLLOW button to add that new source to one of your Feedly feeds and receive the next articles published by that source.

Use power search results to discover new insightful sources to follow

Your turn

15 million users are already using Feedly for their own trade and market analysis. Ready to join them? 

Cut to the heart of what matters. Set up your Feedly account today.

Save PDFs To Your Feedly Boards

You may know your way around our Feedly Boards already. They’re a place to save useful insights you’ve found in Feedly or around the web, and share them as newsletters with your teammates.

But insights can come from many kinds of media, including market reports, conference brochures, presentation decks, or whitepapers packed with industry knowledge. Typically, these exist in a PDF format.

Now, you can save PDFs to your Feedly Boards, so nothing is left out for a deep-dive understanding of a subject.

Here is a run-through

Let’s suppose you’re an analyst for JP Morgan, learning about breaking developments in financial services. Here’s how to add the PDFs you find to your Boards.

Say you come across a fantastic online market report. In this case, it’s all about the technologies set to disrupt financial services in the near future.

Copy the URL.

Then, return to your Feedly Board, choose + ADD STORY, and paste the URL.

Feedly will extract the PDF’s title automatically from metadata or the name of the file. You can also shorten and change the title yourself. 

Before you can save a story to a Board, add a summary.

Summaries show your team what they’re about to read and why it matters. They’ll also show up your Team Newsletter. 

Write your own, or do as we’ve done here and copy the first paragraph of the report’s summary.

Once you’re done, click ‘Save To Board’.

The Board should now have your PDF at the top.

It’ll stay there for anyone in your team to view and comment on. Add as many PDFs as you want to populate the Board, so you can easily access all the reference points you need in one place.

If your board is configured with a team newsletter or a Slack or Microsoft Teams notification, the PDF link will be automatically included and shared with your teammates.

Your turn

Follow these steps to add slides, brochures, guides, market reports and more to your Boards. Now that you can save any insights you come across, you can be sure that crucial information never escapes you or your team when building a fuller picture of a topic.

Get more out of Feedly now with Team Newsletters when you upgrade to our Business plan. You’ll also get additional Boards, sources and sharing functionalities.

Mute Market Reports with Leo

We heard from lots of users that market reports can be a considerable source of noise when you use keyword alerts to track updates about companies.

We are excited to announce a new Market Reports Leo topic. We have taught Leo to read articles and understand if they are about market reports so that you can easily mute them from your feeds and save hours.

Let us show you how it works

Let’s imagine you have keyword alerts to track updates about various Health companies such as Amgen, Novartis, and 23&Me.

Market reports represent a large portion of the articles in our feed

As you can see, a considerable amount of these articles are noisy market reports. Let’s train Leo to read this feed and filter out all the market report articles.

You can find the Mute Filters skill when clicking on Train Leo.

Find the Mute filters skill in your feed

In the Mute Filters editor, you can select the topics and keywords you want Leo to mute. Search for the new Market Reports Topic.

Search for the new #market reports Leo topic

You can see a preview of all the articles that Leo has recognized as Market Reports and that will be removed from the feed.

Leo mutes articles he recognizes as market reports

Leo will continuously read your feed and remove articles he identifies as market reports, letting you focus on the topics and trends that matter to you.

Our feed is now free from any noise coming from market reports

The Leo Market Report Mute Filter helps us cut through the noise and track company updates a lot more efficiently.

Yuan Shen Yu

Train Your Leo Now

We are excited to see how many Feedly users declutter their feeds and dig deeper into the topics and trends that matter to them. Sign up today and discover what Leo can do for you!

If you are interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, you can join the Feedly Community Slack. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!

Feedly’s 25 Keyboard Shortcuts

At Feedly, we’re passionate about saving you time. Even seconds. So here’s another useful tip to speed up your reading flow!

When you press “?” anywhere in Feedly, you’ll see a list of all available keyboard shortcuts.

Here are all 25 shortcuts at a glance:

List of 25 shortcuts. Tip: Make sure that you do not have caps lock on!

Backed by popular requests from the community, today we introduce 2 new shortcuts: gg and t

gg – Jump to… Anywhere You Want

If you have hundreds of sources packed inside a dozen feeds, gg will be a simple way to search and navigate specific sources and feeds.

Use the gg shortcut to quickly jump to a feed, source or board in your Feedly

t – Save to Board

When you find an interesting article and want to save it to your boards – the shortcut t comes in handy.

Use the t shortcut to save an article to one of your boards

Wisdom from the Community

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