Getting Started

Feedpik is an RSS reader whose ranking algorithm belongs to you. Two things follow from that, and they are the whole of setup: you choose the sources, and you decide how they are ranked. Everything else is reading.

Start with sources

A new account has none, and that matters more than it sounds. Without subscriptions, Recommended draws from a shared pool of everything Feedpik follows — genuinely interesting, but it is not yours. Interests only reorder that pool; sources are what change what is in it.

Open Discover Sources in the sidebar. Four ways in, in rough order of how quickly they fill a feed:

Paste a site address. Any blog, news site or publication. Feedpik looks for its feed — most sites advertise one, and a direct RSS or Atom URL always works if the site does not.

Import from another reader. If you already use Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire or similar, export an OPML file there and import it here in one step. This is the fastest route by a wide margin: everything you already read, at once.

Browse packs. Ready-made bundles by subject. Installing one adds its sources to your account, and you can remove any of them afterwards.

Install a persona. A persona is a complete reading space — its own sources, preferences and ranking. Installing a community persona gives you someone else's whole setup as a new persona of your own; the one you are using stays untouched.

The Discover panel also has entry points for specific kinds of source: Reddit, Mastodon, Bluesky, Substack, podcasts, YouTube channels, and a private inbox address for newsletters. Each accepts what you would naturally paste — a subreddit link, an @user@instance handle, an Apple Podcasts URL.

Fifteen or twenty sources is a good start. You can prune later, and Feedpik does not punish you for subscribing to something you end up ignoring — the ranking notices.

Tell the ranking what you want

Sources decide what arrives. Ranking decides what you see first.

The quickest way is to say it. Open AI Assistant at the bottom of the sidebar and write what you want in plain words:

more AI infrastructure and chip supply, much less crypto and celebrity news

It proposes the change and shows you what it will do. Nothing happens until you press Apply, and every applied change is a new version you can roll back.

You do not have to use the assistant. Algorithm & Agents has the same controls as sliders and lists — interests, muted topics, languages, how much recency counts against relevance. Both routes write the same thing; one is faster and the other shows every knob.

Two things worth setting early:

Languages. Feedpik defaults to English in the shared pool. If you read in another language, say so — otherwise you never see sources that exist and nothing looks broken.

Muted topics. Easier to state than interests, and often more effective. "Nothing about crypto" removes a whole category of noise in one line.

What each view is for

The sidebar is not a list of filters. Each view answers a different question.

View	Answers
Recommended	What should I read now, ranked by your algorithm
Agent Picked	What your AI assistant chose for you specifically
Saved	Things you kept on purpose
Liked	Things you told the ranking to find more of
Unread	Everything that has arrived and not been opened
Daily Briefing	What happened today, clustered by topic and synthesised across sources
Trending Radar	Stories several of your sources picked up at once, early
Tracking	A company, ticker or topic you asked to be told about

Saved and Liked are different. Saving is a bookmark and changes nothing. Liking is a signal — it tells your ranking to find more like it. If you want to read something later without steering the algorithm, save it.

Connect your assistant

Optional, and the single thing that changes the product most.

A connected assistant can pick your reading, tune your ranking on request, and keep the Agent Picked view filled on a schedule — so there is a list waiting for you in the morning, chosen by something that knows what you have been reading.

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Codex and others all connect. See How to Connect Your AI Assistant — the setup differs by product, and one of them cannot do it yet.

If you would rather read in chat, Feedpik also pushes digests to Telegram or Discord.

What happens next

Ranking improves as it learns, but not by watching you silently. What moves it:

• Liking and saving — the strongest signals, because you chose to send them
• Telling the assistant what you want more or less of — the fastest, because it changes the weights directly
• Reading — the weakest, since opening something is not the same as valuing it

You will not need to do much. Say what you want once, subscribe to what you care about, and the feed is yours from then on.

If something looks wrong

Recommended is full of things I do not care about — you probably have no sources yet, so it is showing the shared pool. Add sources; it changes completely.

A source I added has no articles — some feeds only publish occasionally. If it stays empty for a day, the feed may have moved or stopped; remove and re-add it from the site address.

Everything is in a language I do not read — set your languages in the assistant or in Algorithm & Agents. Sources you subscribe to are never filtered by language, but the shared pool is.