Features

Everything Nimbus Feed does, explained in plain language.

Reading & Triage

Castro-Style Inbox/Queue

New items land in your Inbox. Scan them, then send to Queue (what you’ll read) or mute (what you won’t). No split pane, no infinite scroll, no decision fatigue. Time estimates replace unread counts.

  • s to send to Queue, m to mute, j/k to navigate
  • “~30 min of reading” instead of “847 unread”
  • Shift+A to send all remaining to Queue

Distraction-Free Reader

Full-screen article view. Clean typography. No sidebars, no related articles, no ads. Just the text and your highlights.

  • Extracted via trafilatura (F1=0.958 accuracy)
  • Highlight and annotate inline
  • Dark mode follows system preference

Keyboard Shortcuts

Navigate your entire reading workflow without touching the mouse. j/k to move, s to queue, m to mute, Enter to read.

AI Noise Reduction

AI Daily Digests

Morning Brew-style briefings generated from your feed groups overnight. Lead story, supporting briefs, and bullet summaries — organized by topic, ranked by relevance.

  • One digest per feed group, customized by your Recipe
  • Choose your LLM model per recipe
  • Token budget display with fallback to raw excerpts

Custom Recipes

Tell the AI what you care about in plain English. “Summarize front-end framework updates, skip opinion pieces, flag security advisories.” One Recipe per feed group. Full control over the AI’s behavior.

Per-Recipe LLM Model Selection

Pick the AI model for each digest recipe. Use a faster model for news roundups, a more capable one for technical analysis.

Token Budget Transparency

See how much AI processing each digest uses. If the budget runs out, digests fall back to raw article excerpts — no silent failures, no hidden costs.

Filtering & Dedup

Semantic Deduplication

When 12 sources cover the same story, Nimbus groups them under one header. Two-stage dedup distinguishes “Apple earnings” from “Google earnings” — no false positives.

  • HDBSCAN clustering (Silhouette Score 0.215 vs. Agglomerative 0.028)
  • Google News-style nested headers
  • Expand any group to see all sources

Natural Language Mute Rules

Write mute rules in English: “mute cryptocurrency articles unless they mention regulation.” No regex. No Boolean logic. No maintenance.

Mute Audit Trail

Every muted article shows the AI’s reasoning and an “Allow this” override. Nothing is silently deleted. Review your muted items anytime and adjust rules in one tap.

Knowledge Management

Obsidian/PKM Sync

Highlights and saved articles sync to your Obsidian vault. Append-only — never overwrites your edits. Tracked by YAML frontmatter IDs, not filenames.

Jinja2 Template Customization

Control exactly how synced content appears in your vault. Custom templates for highlights, articles, and digest summaries.

Text Highlighting & Annotation

Highlight passages and add notes inline. Highlights flow into your PKM sync automatically.

Feed Management & Data

OPML Import/Export

Bring your feeds from any reader. Take them to any reader. No lock-in. No export delays. No “contact support.”

Newsletter Ingestion

~90% of newsletters have RSS feeds. Nimbus finds and subscribes to the RSS version automatically. Email fallback for the rest.

Feed Health Monitoring

Feeds that consistently error get flagged and auto-disabled. No dead feeds cluttering your inbox.

Dark Mode

System-aware dark mode across every view. No toggle hunting.