Choose sources around a question you need to answer
Start with the work your AI reading should support. You might be choosing a model, understanding a research topic, or collecting examples for a product decision. Write that question down before choosing feeds. It gives each source a purpose and gives you something useful to ask later.
For each candidate source, read a few posts yourself. Look for clear explanations, original references, and enough detail to support your question. Treat these as selection criteria, not a promise that every future article will meet them.
Keep a short list of sources you want in your knowledge base. You can evaluate an RSS feed for AI by whether its recent posts help your actual work, rather than whether its name sounds comprehensive.
Bring RSS feeds and newsletters into KnowMan on Pro
KnowMan supports following RSS feeds on Pro. New posts from the sites you follow arrive in your knowledge base automatically. This provides an ongoing capture path alongside the articles you choose individually.
Newsletters are another Pro capture method. KnowMan gives you a private address, and newsletters sent to that address land in your knowledge base. Use it for publications you want to keep alongside your saved articles.
For a page you discover outside a feed, save it through the Chrome extension or the web app. Browser capture is available on Free. KnowMan reads the full content of saved articles, keeps their sources, and organizes them automatically. Your ongoing subscriptions and individual saves become reading you can search and ask about together.
Use rules to keep incoming reading relevant
KnowMan's Pro rules filter incoming content from feeds and newsletters. Begin with a plain description of what belongs in your knowledge base: the topics you research, the decisions you make, and the kinds of evidence you want to retain.
Use that description when setting up ingestion rules. Keep the first setup focused on a clear need. Avoid designing a complicated sorting system before you have seen what your chosen sources actually publish.
Review the incoming articles against your original question. Are they useful references, or mostly announcements you do not need? Adjust your source choices and rules accordingly. Automatic organization helps manage saved articles; your editorial judgment still determines which sources deserve a place in your knowledge base.
Ask questions across the articles you have saved
Once relevant articles are saved, ask a question tied to your work. For example: 'What tradeoffs do my saved articles describe for running models locally?' Another useful prompt is: 'Which sources explain the evaluation methods used in this research?' These are questions to try, not promises about what your library contains.
KnowMan answers from your saved reading and provides citations. Open those citations to check the passages behind an answer. A useful response should help you find evidence you can inspect before using it in a decision or draft.
Free includes five Ask questions a day. Pro removes that daily limit. Both plans include keyword search; Pro also includes semantic search, which helps when you remember an idea without remembering the exact wording.
Keep decisions alongside the reading behind them
A feed brings in new reading. A decision records what you intend to do with it. After checking the relevant sources, keep your conclusion and its reasoning as a Memory in KnowMan. Include the conditions that would make you reconsider it.
For example, you could record which model evaluation you intend to run and why the saved evidence makes that test useful. Keep a clear distinction between an article's claim and your own choice. That distinction gives you something concrete to revisit.
Connected agents can read your decisions and playbooks through MCP. Supported clients include Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and any agent that supports MCP. Agents can search, ask, read, and save links through the available tools. They cannot write Memories.
Evaluate the workflow during your Pro trial
Every new account starts with a 14-day Pro trial, with no credit card required. Use that period to test an actual research question with your chosen feeds. Include newsletter capture and rules if they belong in your intended workflow.
Check whether the incoming reading supports questions you care about. Try keyword search with a phrase you remember, then semantic search with an idea expressed differently. Ask a question and inspect its citations. Record whether you found useful evidence, rather than treating the amount saved as the result.
After the trial, you can stay on Free and keep your saved articles. Free retains keyword search and five Ask questions daily. Continuing RSS subscriptions, newsletters, ingestion rules, and semantic search requires Pro.
- Choose sources that support a real question.
- Check cited passages before using an answer.
- Keep decisions and their reasons available for reuse.