Mailbrew is far from your ordinary digest service. It offers a suite of powerful customization features that elevate your daily content digest into a personalized content oasis tailored specifically to your preferences.
Personalizing Your Brews
The journey to making Mailbrew truly yours begins with personalizing the appearance of your brews. Simply navigate to the settings of any brew to unlock a myriad of customization options:
Brew Settings
Within the Brew Settings, you have the flexibility to:
- Toggle source headings on or off
- Show or hide source icons
- Pause brew generation whenever you like
- Stop email sending to enjoy your brew exclusively online
- Rename your brew for better organization
Source Order
By selecting "All Sources," you're presented with a list of every content source in your brew. Here, you can effortlessly drag and drop sources to arrange them in your preferred order, ensuring the most important content always takes precedence.
Tailoring Your Sources
Mailbrew shines with its ability to tailor each content source to fit your taste perfectly. You can customize the title of all of your sources, but Mailbrew offers so much more.
Weather
- Choose between a daily and 5 day forecast
- Choose between the metric and imperial unit systems
- You can display or hide the summary and sunrise/sunset times in daily view
Calendar
- Choose between displaying today, tomorrow, or the events for the next 5 days
- Choose between an AM/PM or 24 hour display
- Control the calendars from your Google Calendar that you want to display
Newsletters
- Filter newsletters by your favorites or tags
- Choose how many newsletters to include
- You can display the email preview excerpt or hide it
- Choose 1, 2 or 3 column layout
- Choose the style and size of the source, including the ability to add a background color
Website & RSS
- Choose how many posts from the feed to include in your brew
- Hide or show images
- Choose between having no post body, the excerpt, or the full body of content
- Choose 1, 2 or 3 column layout
- Choose the style and size of the source, including the ability to add a background color
Top Stories
- Choose how many posts from the feed to include in your brew
- Hide or show images
- Choose between having no post body, the excerpt, or the full body of content
- Choose 1, 2 or 3 column layout
- Choose the style and size of the source, including the ability to add a background color
Podcasts
- Choose whether to include the Apple Podcast shortcut for each episode
- Choose between no image, thumbnail, or full image
- Choose 1, 2 or 3 column layout
- Choose excerpt , full show notes, or just the podcast episode title
Hacker News
- Choose how many articles to display
- Filter stories showing only Stories, Ask HN, Show HN, any combination, or all of them
- Choose how many posts to include
- Choose 1, 2 or 3 column layout
- Add an additional Instagram source directly from the editing options
Youtube
- Choose how many videos from the feed to include in your brew
- Choose 1, 2 or 3 column layout
- Choose the style and size of the source, including the ability to add a background color
Stocks & Crypto
These two sources have similar functionality
- Choose the stocks and crypto currencies you want to track
- Enter how many shares or tokens you are holding
- Choose between seeing the stock/crypto price, your portfolio value or both
- Choose whether you would rather show the holding value rather than the stock/crypto price
Exchange Rates
Data from European Central Bank, via this public API. Diffs based on previous working day exchange rates.
- Choose your Base Currency
- Choose any number of target currencies
Google News
- Choose your language
- Enter your search query
- Choose how many posts from the feed to include in your brew
- Choose 1, 2 or 3 column layout
- Choose the style and size of the source, including the ability to add a background color
Read Later
You can save content you visit to read later in your brew with our Chrome extension
- Choose 1, 2 or 3 column layout
- Choose between having no post body, the excerpt, or the full body of content
- Choose the style and size of the source, including the ability to add a background color
Text
Incorporate personal notes, to-do lists, images, and more using Markdown syntax for a personalized touch.
Separator
Insert visual separators between sources for clearer organization, with customizable styling options.
Scheduling Your Brews
Beyond content and aesthetics, Mailbrew offers complete control over your brew's delivery schedule:
- Daily - Specify a time to receive your daily brew.
- Weekly - Choose both a day and time for your weekly digest.
- Monthly - Select a date and time for monthly delivery.
This scheduling flexibility ensures that you can design different brews for various needs, such as a daily roundup of essential news and schedules, weekly insights into specific interests like finance or hobbies, and a monthly compilation of articles for leisure reading.
Conclusion
Mailbrew's comprehensive customization options for styling, source selection, and scheduling grant you the power to curate digest content that aligns perfectly with your interests and lifestyle.
For newcomers, this suite of features presents an exciting opportunity to go beyond conventional RSS readers and automated newsletters, crafting a unique content experience that meets your exact needs.
For long-time users, perhaps unfamiliar with these extensive capabilities, we hope this overview inspires you to delve deeper into Mailbrew's offerings. By exploring new ways to style your digest, customize sources, or adjust your scheduling, you can significantly enhance your Mailbrew experience.
Let's embrace the art of better brewing! ☕️