You open Lattuce to write — but the field keeps moving. New preprints land overnight. A lab blog posts a methods update. A journal you follow publishes ahead of print.

Research signals keep a lightweight pulse on that stream without pulling you out of your workspace. A scrolling ticker on home shows recent headlines; the full Feeds page is where you subscribe, filter, summarize, and save items into your library.

This guide is for researchers and authors who want awareness first, depth on demand — not another inbox to triage all day.

Before you start

AI features like summarize and briefing run on your plan's included capacity, and you can add your own AI provider keys in settings — see BYOK on Lattuce. Lattuce is cloud-only at lattuce.app today; see where you can use Lattuce for the device picture.

Two surfaces, one workflow

Home ticker — glanceable headlines

On home, a compact ticker dock sits along the bottom of the screen (on classic layout). It shows a rotating strip of recent headlines from your feeds and subscribed research topics.

From the ticker you can:

• Skim titles and open the original link in a new tab
• Filter by all headlines, publications only, or a specific research topic you follow
• Summarize a headline (brief digest) — included on every plan, with a daily quota
• Save a headline to your library for later reading or attaching to a paper
• Collapse the dock when you want more screen space, or unpin it so it scrolls with the page
• Open All feeds for the full reader

The ticker is designed to stay out of the way: icon-only controls, short source labels (RSS URLs are shortened to readable names like “Malaysiakini” or “BBC”), and a collapse mode that shows a headline count instead of the full strip.

On themed desktop layouts (for example Windows 95 or Minecraft home), the ticker stays available but defaults to collapsed so it does not cover your desktop windows.

Feeds page — subscribe, read, brief, save

Open Feeds from the ticker or your navigation. This is the control room.

Research topics are keyword-style follows — for example sparse autoencoders interpretability with an optional “from year” filter. After you add a topic, Lattuce fetches matching publications in the background; refresh when you want a manual update.

RSS feeds work the way you expect from any reader: paste a feed URL, subscribe, and new items appear in the reader and home ticker.

A typical day

1. Sign in — home loads your agenda and the ticker prefetches recent headlines.
2. Glance at the ticker — anything worth a click opens in the source site; anything worth keeping gets Save.
3. Need context fast? — Summarize on the headline for a short digest before you commit time.
4. Morning depth — on Feeds, generate Today's briefing for a digest of unread headlines (Pro/Team).
5. Write with what you saved — open Library, attach saved sources to a paper, and continue in literature review with Lattuce or a research mission.

How this fits the rest of Lattuce

Research signals are the front door, not the whole house.

If you already use Zotero or another reference manager, think of feeds as discovery and triage inside Lattuce — save brings an item into the same library you use when writing.

Compared to a standalone RSS reader, Lattuce adds a path from headline → library → cited Word export without re-exporting metadata. Compared to chat-over-PDF tools, feeds keep provenance: you always know which feed or topic surfaced an item before you save it.

See NotebookLM vs Lattuce for how digest-style tools differ from a full writing stack.

Tips

• Start with one RSS feed and one research topic — validate the workflow before importing a large OPML file.
• Use topic filters on the ticker when you are deep in one line of work; switch back to All when you want the full pulse.
• Collapse the dock during long writing sessions on home; expand when you are in scan mode.
• Watch summarize quota on busy days — save to library first, summarize only what you might actually read.

Limits and honesty

• Feeds refresh on a schedule; the ticker is not a live newswire.
• OpenAlex topic matching depends on how you phrase the query — refine topics that are too broad or too quiet.
• Plan gates apply: personal subscriptions and briefing are entitlement-controlled; the Feeds page shows plain-language notices when a feature is unavailable.
• Summarize produces a brief digest, not a substitute for reading the paper or running a full literature mission.

Related reading

• Literature review with Lattuce — from saved sources to cited Word export
• Research missions in Lattuce — structured synthesis over your corpus
• Lattuce vs research apps — where feeds sit in the broader landscape
• Where you can use Lattuce today — cloud now, Windows and Android apps on the way

You open Lattuce to write — but the field keeps moving. New preprints land overnight. A lab blog posts a methods update. A journal you follow publishes ahead of print.

Research signals keep a lightweight pulse on that stream without pulling you out of your workspace. A scrolling ticker on home shows recent headlines; the full Feeds page is where you subscribe, filter, summarize, and save items into your library.

This guide is for researchers and authors who want awareness first, depth on demand — not another inbox to triage all day.

Before you start

AI features like summarize and briefing run on your plan's included capacity, and you can add your own AI provider keys in settings — see BYOK on Lattuce. Lattuce is cloud-only at lattuce.app today; see where you can use Lattuce for the device picture.

Two surfaces, one workflow

Home ticker — glanceable headlines

On home, a compact ticker dock sits along the bottom of the screen (on classic layout). It shows a rotating strip of recent headlines from your feeds and subscribed research topics.

From the ticker you can:

• Skim titles and open the original link in a new tab
• Filter by all headlines, publications only, or a specific research topic you follow
• Summarize a headline (brief digest) — included on every plan, with a daily quota
• Save a headline to your library for later reading or attaching to a paper
• Collapse the dock when you want more screen space, or unpin it so it scrolls with the page
• Open All feeds for the full reader

The ticker is designed to stay out of the way: icon-only controls, short source labels (RSS URLs are shortened to readable names like “Malaysiakini” or “BBC”), and a collapse mode that shows a headline count instead of the full strip.

On themed desktop layouts (for example Windows 95 or Minecraft home), the ticker stays available but defaults to collapsed so it does not cover your desktop windows.

Feeds page — subscribe, read, brief, save

Open Feeds from the ticker or your navigation. This is the control room.

Research topics are keyword-style follows — for example sparse autoencoders interpretability with an optional “from year” filter. After you add a topic, Lattuce fetches matching publications in the background; refresh when you want a manual update.

RSS feeds work the way you expect from any reader: paste a feed URL, subscribe, and new items appear in the reader and home ticker.

A typical day

1. Sign in — home loads your agenda and the ticker prefetches recent headlines.
2. Glance at the ticker — anything worth a click opens in the source site; anything worth keeping gets Save.
3. Need context fast? — Summarize on the headline for a short digest before you commit time.
4. Morning depth — on Feeds, generate Today's briefing for a digest of unread headlines (Pro/Team).
5. Write with what you saved — open Library, attach saved sources to a paper, and continue in literature review with Lattuce or a research mission.

How this fits the rest of Lattuce

Research signals are the front door, not the whole house.

If you already use Zotero or another reference manager, think of feeds as discovery and triage inside Lattuce — save brings an item into the same library you use when writing.

Compared to a standalone RSS reader, Lattuce adds a path from headline → library → cited Word export without re-exporting metadata. Compared to chat-over-PDF tools, feeds keep provenance: you always know which feed or topic surfaced an item before you save it.

See NotebookLM vs Lattuce for how digest-style tools differ from a full writing stack.

Tips

• Start with one RSS feed and one research topic — validate the workflow before importing a large OPML file.
• Use topic filters on the ticker when you are deep in one line of work; switch back to All when you want the full pulse.
• Collapse the dock during long writing sessions on home; expand when you are in scan mode.
• Watch summarize quota on busy days — save to library first, summarize only what you might actually read.

Limits and honesty

• Feeds refresh on a schedule; the ticker is not a live newswire.
• OpenAlex topic matching depends on how you phrase the query — refine topics that are too broad or too quiet.
• Plan gates apply: personal subscriptions and briefing are entitlement-controlled; the Feeds page shows plain-language notices when a feature is unavailable.
• Summarize produces a brief digest, not a substitute for reading the paper or running a full literature mission.

Related reading

• Literature review with Lattuce — from saved sources to cited Word export
• Research missions in Lattuce — structured synthesis over your corpus
• Lattuce vs research apps — where feeds sit in the broader landscape
• Where you can use Lattuce today — cloud now, Windows and Android apps on the way