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For You

A continuous personalized feed driven by a six-dimensional interest profile.

What it is

For You is the personalized stream BestBlogs continuously refreshes for you.

Compared to My Brief:

  • My Brief is "one curated batch a day" — small and selective;
  • For You is "endless" — continuous recall against your profile.

Pro only.

Six-dimensional interest profile

Every user's profile is determined by six dimensions:

Dimension Notes
Domain High-level direction — AI, engineering, product, business, lifestyle
Topic Finer than domain — "Agent architecture," "TypeScript at scale"
Entity Specific products / companies / people — Claude, Cursor, OpenAI
Format Your distribution across articles / podcasts / videos / tweets / newsletters
Source Sources you frequently follow or engage with
Freshness Whether you lean toward fresh news or slower long-form

Cold-start values come from your selections under Settings → Interest profile; from there, the system updates continuously from your bookmarks, highlights, "not interested" feedback, and follows.

Recommendation pipeline

  1. Recall: pull hundreds of candidates from the curated pool against your six-dimensional profile.
  2. Re-rank: combine score, freshness, source preference, read state, and recent-recommendation history.
  3. Dedup: avoid clustering items from the same source in a short window.
  4. Diversity guardrail: reserve 1–2 "exploratory" items to expand the edges of your profile.

"Why we recommend this"

Most cards carry a "why we recommend this" line in the bottom-right:

  • "You've been reading a lot of AI architecture articles lately"
  • "Your followed source XYZ just published this"
  • "This is a Featured pick with high engagement this week"

If a recommendation feels off, just hit "Not interested" — weights for the related tags / sources / topics drop immediately.

Three places to tune your profile

Entry Control
Behavior signals (bookmark / highlight / not interested / follow) Implicit, slow tuning
Settings → Interest profile (manual tag / weight edits) Explicit, fast tuning
Featured stars in Following Sharply boost a specific source in My Brief