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Personalization

Personalization is what makes a Polylog briefing yours. It works on two levels: a profile that captures who you are as a reader, and a memory that keeps your briefings coherent from one day to the next.

Your reader profile​

When you choose your topics, weight them, and add custom labels, Polylog distills all of that into a short reader profile, a readable description of your interests that the synthesis engine uses to decide what belongs in your briefing and how to frame it.

  • It is generated from your selections, so it stays in sync as you change them.
  • It is editable, so you can refine the profile directly if you want to nudge emphasis.
  • It is versioned, so changes are tracked over time.

The profile is why two subscribers reading "Markets" can get meaningfully different briefings. One is weighted toward rates and central banks, another toward equities and a specific set of companies.

Topic weighting and exclusions​

Topics are not simply on or off. You can:

  • Weight the topics that matter most so they get more space and attention.
  • Exclude subjects you never want to see, so they are filtered out even when they are in the news.
  • Add custom labels for interests outside the catalog, such as a particular company, region, asset class, or ongoing story.

Memory across days​

A briefing service that forgets everything each morning produces disjointed, repetitive reading. Polylog keeps a per-user context that carries forward:

  • Open storylines, the threads it was following for you that have not concluded.
  • Recent entities, the people, companies, and places that have been central to your recent briefings.
  • Your feedback, signals about what you found useful, used to tune future briefings.

This continuity means your briefings reference what came before, follow developing stories to their resolution, and avoid re-explaining context you already have. For the longer arc of this, trends tracked over weeks and months, see Macro trends.

Your data​

Your profile and preferences exist to produce your briefings. For how Polylog handles your data, see the FAQ.