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Using Tenwise
Tenwise is a reading workspace: follow the sources that matter, read calmly, save what's worth keeping with a note on why, and turn it into cited briefings. This guide takes you from your first sign-in to your first newsletter.
Get started
- Go to tenwise.app/login (or press Sign In on this site) and enter your email.
- Tenwise emails you a 6-digit code and a link. Enter the code, or open the link and press Sign in. Both work once, for 15 minutes. There's no password.
- You land in your own library, private to your email. Add your first sources with + in the left rail.
Use desktop Google Chrome 148 or later: it's the browser with Gemini Nano, the AI Tenwise uses (see AI on your device). Everything else works in any modern browser.
You stay signed in for 30 days on that browser. Signing in with a different email gives you a different, separate library.
Follow sources
Press + in the left rail (or ⌘ K → Add feed). There are several ways in:
| Tab | What it does |
|---|---|
| URL | Paste any site's address; Tenwise finds its feed for you. |
| Search | Search a curated catalog of publications. |
| Popular | Browse well-known sources by topic. |
| Google News | Follow a Google News search, in any of 23 editions, optionally limited to one site, with search operators like quotes. |
| Google Alerts | Steps to turn a Google Alert into a feed. |
Already use another reader? Import your list as an OPML file in Settings → Data; the feeds start fetching right away. Group feeds into folders from the sidebar, and right-click a feed to refresh, move or remove it. Tenwise refreshes your feeds while you're using it: set how often in Settings → Reading, or press ↻ in the left rail to refresh them all now.
Read
- Scan fast. The list shows dense rows with day headings. Prefer something else? Switch to Grid, List or Compact in the list header.
- Read calmly. Open an article and it docks beside the list. Tenwise fetches the full text from the source when it can, and tells you when you're reading only the feed's summary.
- Make room. Hide the sidebar with [ and the list with ], or press f for focus mode. The Aa menu sets font, size, spacing and width.
- Highlight. Select text in an article to highlight it in one of four colors. Find every highlight in Highlights.
- Find anything. Press / to search everything you've fetched, or ⌘ K to jump to any view, folder or feed and run commands.
Save and organize
- b saves an article. n saves it and opens a note: a line on why it caught your eye. Saved lists your saves newest first, each with its note.
- c files an article into collections, or creates one as you type. A collection is a set of sources on a topic, ready to cite or share.
- Unsorted holds saves that aren't in a collection yet: a filing queue. File one with c, and j takes you to the next.
- Removing a feed never removes your saves: they stay in Saved and your collections, notes included.
Cite and export
- Every saved article carries an APA 7 citation: under your note in the reader, and behind a copy button on saved rows. It pastes into a document with its italics.
- A collection's Copy citations copies a reference list, A to Z.
- Download Markdown saves a collection as one file: each article's title, source, dates, citation, your note and its text.
- Send to NotebookLM on a collection downloads that file to upload as a source, copies the links to paste, or opens NotebookLM.
- Export your feed list as OPML (Settings → Data), and your highlights as CSV from Highlights.
AI on your device
Tenwise's AI runs in your browser, using Gemini Nano, the model built into desktop Google Chrome. Article text isn't sent to an AI service.
- Use desktop Chrome 148 or later. Chrome needs about 22 GB of free disk space and a computer it supports;
chrome://on-device-internalsshows whether yours qualifies. - Open an article and press a for the AI rail.
- Press Generate summary. The first time, Chrome downloads Gemini Nano once (a few GB); after that it's ready whenever you are.
The AI rail has Summary, Analysis (sentiment, urgency, frame, tone, depth and topics), Chat about the article, and your Highlights. Save a summary to keep it in AI Summaries.
Your voice
In Settings → AI assistant, choose reading personas (several blend into one voice), a tone, and custom instructions. They apply to every summary, chat and briefing.
Background processing
Turn it on in Settings → AI engines to summarize and analyze new articles automatically while Tenwise is open in Chrome, or press ✨ in the list header to process recent articles now. Analyzed articles can then be filtered by sentiment, urgency and more with the Filters button.
Ollama, the other AI engine the open-source Tenwise Engine supports, needs Tenwise to run on your own computer, so it isn't available on tenwise.app.
Work with several articles
Select articles with the circle on each row, then choose AI in the bar that appears:
| Action | For | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Compare | 2–5 articles | How the sources differ: angle, claims, what's missing, tone and evidence. |
| Newsletter | 3–15 articles | A newsletter as a Daily Digest, Weekly Roundup or Executive Brief. |
| Briefing | 2–15 articles | An answer to your question, drawn only from those articles. |
Export the result as Markdown or Word, email it, or save a newsletter to Studio.
Studio newsletters
Studio (in the left rail) keeps your newsletters. Save one from a generated newsletter, or start a draft from any collection: each article becomes a section, with your note as "Why it matters" and a reference list at the end.
- Edit the title and Markdown with a live preview; changes save as you type.
- Pick a design: Broadsheet, Evening Edition or Quarterly.
- Export as Markdown, Word, a PNG for sharing, or an A4 PDF with real text.
Make it yours
- Theme: dark or light, from the sun and moon in the left rail or Settings → Appearance. The sign-in page follows your choice on that browser.
- Accent color, fonts and text color: Settings → Appearance.
- Simple and Power: Settings opens in Simple, with what most people need. Power shows everything, including the AI prompts, which you can read and edit.
- Your settings follow you to any browser you sign in on.
Keyboard shortcuts
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
| ⌘ K / Ctrl K | Command palette |
| / | Search |
| j / k | Next / previous article |
| b | Save or unsave |
| n | Save with a note |
| c | Add to collections |
| o | Open the original |
| a | AI rail |
| f | Focus mode |
| [ / ] | Show or hide the sidebar / the article list |
| Esc | Clear the selection or search; in the reader, leave focus mode, then close the article |
None of them fire while you're typing.
Your account and data
- Sign out: click your initial at the bottom of the left rail, then Sign out. From there you can also sign out on every device at once. Settings → Account has the same.
- Your library is private to your email: nobody else signing in can see your feeds, saves or notes.
- Where it's kept: your library lives in your own workspace on Tenwise's servers (on Cloudflare), with a continuous backup, so it's there on any browser you sign in on.
- AI stays on your device: Gemini Nano runs in Chrome; article text isn't sent to an AI service.
- No tracking: no third-party analytics or advertising.
If something's not right
The sign-in email didn't arrive
Check spam, then request a new one; each new email replaces the last. To stop abuse, Tenwise sends only a few sign-in emails per address in a short time, so if you're told to wait, wait a few minutes.
"That code isn't right" or "expired"
Codes work once, for 15 minutes, and five wrong tries end them. Request a new code.
"No AI model available"
Open Tenwise in desktop Google Chrome 148 or later. If it still says so, chrome://on-device-internals shows why Chrome can't run Gemini Nano on that computer.
A feed won't add
Some sites block automated requests. Try the feed's own address instead of the site's home page.
The full article doesn't load
The site blocked it. Press o to read it on the site.
Anything else: write to satish@tenwise.app.