What are spotlights useful for?

Spotlights make the terms you care about stand out while you scan a long article list or read a long article: the names of companies, products, people, clients or the vocabulary of a project, each group in its own color. They change what catches your eye, not which articles you see, so they suit busy folders where you still want to read everything.

Scan lists and read articles

The terms are colored in the titles and snippets of every list, whether a feed, a folder, Read later or a tag, so the articles that mention them stand out as you scroll. Inside an opened article, a translated article and an AI summary, the same terms are colored, so you find the passage that matters without reading everything.

Group your terms

To follow a market, create one spotlight for your company, one for your competitors and one for your customers, each with its own Highlight color, and a headline tells you at once who it's about.

For a project, put its names, products and technical terms into one spotlight, and pause it with its Status switch when the project ends.

On Team plans, a Team admin shares a spotlight, and every member who turns on See Team spotlights in Manage Team > Spotlights sees the same terms in the same colors. How do I create a spotlight? shows the dialog.

Keep the coloring precise

Case sensitive, ticked per term, keeps short names and acronyms that are also ordinary words, such as "Apple" or "AI", from matching every use of the word, and a single word matches whole words only, so "AI" isn't colored inside "said".

Pick the right tool

A spotlight never hides or removes an article. To see only the articles that mention a term, or to keep a term out of a feed, use a filter. To collect new articles about a term from all public feeds, create a monitoring feed, which also colors its matched keywords when Highlight keywords is on under Preferences > Settings > Article contents. Mentions identify the companies, products, places and people in your articles, and a highlight in Annotations marks a passage you select in one article. Filters, monitoring feeds, mentions and Annotations are Pro.

Plans and limits

Spotlights are free on every plan, with no limit on their number. What are spotlights?, the feature page Make the names you care about stand out and the video say more.