The digest | Worthwatch

Subscriptions were supposed to do this.

The subscriptions page lists what is new. It does not tell you what is likely worth the half hour.

The digest is one email with the verdicts. Read it with coffee, open the two Watch rows, and close the tab.

What arrives at 7 am.

The count

How many new videos from how many channels. If nothing new came in, no email comes.
Watch first

The videos judged worth watching, each with its channel, its title as a link, and the one-sentence reason.
Then skim, then skip

The rest, grouped the same way, so you can see what you are choosing not to watch.
The honesty line

Every email ends with the same sentence: Verdicts are judged from the transcript and can be wrong.

Your digest for Tuesday, October 21

7 new videos from the 12 channels you follow. Watch first, then skim, then skip.

Watch

A home network channel I set up VLANs at home and it fixed everything (full guide) Watch The whole VLAN setup is shown with the commands on screen, and the title asks for nothing more.

Skim

A kitchen science channel Every way to cook rice, tested Skim The three methods worth knowing are in the middle third, and the rest repeats them.

Skip

A gadget news channel This changes everything for phones next year Skip The title promises news, and the video restates last week's rumors without a source.

Verdicts are judged from the transcript and can be wrong.

Built on the channels' public feeds.

Every channel publishes a feed of its latest videos. Once an hour, Worthwatch reads the feeds of channels at least one person follows and notices new uploads.

Each new video is analyzed once, and the verdict is shared by everyone who follows that channel. The email is sent at your local send time, 7 am unless you change it.

Adding a channel takes its URL or handle. Removing one is one click.

How verdicts are made

On Mondays, the week.

Pro accounts get a second email on Monday. It lists the week's videos marked worth watching and the count of what was skipped.

Limits, stated.

A channel's feed shows its latest 15 uploads, so a channel that posts 20 times a day is sampled. Shorts appear in feeds and are judged like any video.

A new video's captions can take a few hours to appear. A video that has none by the time the digest is built is listed with "no captions, so no verdict".

1 channel free. 30 on Pro.

Follow 1 channel for free to see the digest work. Pro follows up to 30, adds the weekly roundup, and removes the daily verdict limit. It costs $4 a month or $36 a year.

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The count

Watch first

Then skim, then skip

The honesty line