The Chronicle

Introducing Chronicle

A Newspaper That Assembles Itself Around You

Chronicle reads the sources you care about around the clock, sets aside the noise, and hands you an edition you can finish.

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There was a moment in the late nineties when news was pushed to your desktop. The software was polling underneath, but the idea stuck: the news should come to you, arranged, instead of you going to hunt for it. Two decades later we scroll. The feed has no end, the follow list is a second job, and every platform only shows you itself.

Chronicle is the paper that idea should have become. You tell it what you follow, in plain language, the way you would brief a well-read friend: the new small trucks, electric outboards, a particular writer on a particular site. It fetches from newspapers, blogs, forums and feeds on a schedule that respects them, and it reads what it fetches.

What arrives is an edition. It has sections you defined, a front page ordered by what matters to you, and an end. When something truly urgent breaks in a subject you care about, Chronicle will interrupt you once. The rest waits politely for the next edition.

Everything it reads is kept. Months later you can ask it about the inexpensive four-cylinder truck you half remember, and it will find the story and everything written around it.

Clustering

One Story Instead of Twenty Reposts

When twenty outlets cover the same announcement, Chronicle shows you the story once. The coverage folds beneath it, grouped by who reported first and who added something, so you can open the thread when you want the chorus.

Taste

It Learns What Raises Your Eyebrow

Chronicle notices what you open, finish, save and skip, and it tunes the next edition to match. A small share of every edition is set aside for something just outside your usual beat, because the best find is often the one you would never have searched for.

Sources

A Paper Without Walls

Newspapers, trade journals, niche blogs, enthusiast forums and obscure foreign-language sites all sit in one place. Chronicle discovers new sources as your interests grow, and it fetches from each one carefully so nobody’s server pays for your curiosity.

Editions

A Morning Edition, and an End to It

Editions arrive on your schedule, in the medium you prefer: the web, email, or your phone. Each one is complete and does not change after it lands, so you can read it through and be done.

Memory

A Morgue You Can Talk To

“What was that article last month about the cheap new four-cylinder truck?”

Newspapers kept their clippings in a room called the morgue. Yours is searchable by asking, and it remembers the conversation around each story too.