The Feed section: anatomy and how to move through it

What the Feed is

The Feed is where Verinode IQ hands you the day's briefing: a single vertical deck of full-screen cards, one at a time, that mixes decisions needing your attention with industry news, vendor updates, and events. It replaces a dashboard full of tiles with a queue you move through, top to bottom, the way you'd move through a stack of stories. For what actually shows up on those cards and how the mix is chosen, see the Feed. This article is about the shell around the cards: how the deck is laid out, what the controls do, and how to move through it with a mouse, a trackpad, or a keyboard.

Where to find it

Click Feed at the top of the left sidebar, or go to iq.verinode.ai/feed. Feed sits above Decisions and Actions in the nav: Feed is the daily briefing, Decisions is the full gallery of every signal, Actions is the timeline of action plans you've started. The Feed page loads fresh every time you open it, so intake progress, briefings, and decisions always reflect the latest state of your account.

The welcome slide

The first card in the deck (visible only when the All filter is selected) is a photo card: a full-bleed daily photograph with your greeting overlaid on top.

• Greeting. "Good morning," "Good afternoon," or "Good evening," followed by your first name if Verinode has one, based on the current hour in your account's timezone.
• Subtitle. "Here's today's operator briefing" during the day, or "Here's tonight's briefing" in the evening.
• Briefing stats. A short stack of counts summarizing what's waiting below: "N decisions need attention," "N new articles," "N videos to watch," "N podcasts to listen," "N upcoming events." Only categories with at least one item show; a quiet day with nothing new shows no stats at all.
• Daily proverb. A short quote with its reference, shown under the greeting if you have daily proverbs turned on in your notification preferences.
• Location and photo credit. The photo's location caption sits bottom-left, with a small "Photo by [name] on Unsplash" credit when the photographer is known.
• "Swipe up to begin." A prompt bottom-right telling you the deck continues below.

The welcome slide always resets to the top of the deck on a fresh page load. If you land on the Feed with a specific card deep-linked (see Focus deep-links below), the deck skips straight to that card instead.

First-run cards: Get oriented and Tune your feed

New accounts see two extra cards stacked right after the welcome slide, both while the All filter is active, and only for as long as they haven't been acted on:

• Get oriented, the first actionable card, is a short table of contents for a two-minute guided tour: Meet IQ, your Co-COO; How your data flows in; Starting small, earning trust; Your first tasks; How decisions and action plans work; Where you rank against operators your size. Take the tour opens that walkthrough and leaves the card in place so you can replay it later; Not now retires the card for good on this device.
• Tune your feed, the second card, asks three quick questions once: how many decisions Verinode should prepare each week, how much industry news and learning should ride alongside them, and which content formats (article, video, podcast) you actually want to see. Save applies your answers; Not now keeps the defaults. Either button retires the card permanently, you can still change these settings later from Settings.

Neither card repeats once dismissed. Both are one-time onboarding moments, not recurring reminders.

Filter pills and the time window

Above the deck sits a row of controls that decide which cards are eligible to appear at all.

Filter pills, left side: All, Decisions, Content, Events. All shows everything; Decisions narrows to individual decisions and decision bundles; Content narrows to articles, videos, podcasts, and vendor news; Events narrows to upcoming industry events. Clicking a pill jumps the deck back to the top.

Time window, right side, a dropdown showing each option with a live count in parentheses: Today, This week, 30 days, All time. The deck defaults to 30 days so it stays bounded rather than turning into a stale backlog stretching back months. Each count reflects the currently selected filter, so switching to Decisions and then opening the time dropdown shows how many decisions fall in Today versus This week versus the full 30-day window. Choosing All time removes the date fence entirely and surfaces the full history for that filter. Changing the window also jumps the deck back to the top.

If nothing matches your current filter and window, the deck shows: "No items match this filter."

One card per screen

Below the filter row, the deck itself is a vertical, snap-scrolling column: each card fills the full height of the window, and scrolling (by any method) locks onto exactly one card at a time rather than settling somewhere in between. You never see two cards half-visible at once.

Each row in the deck is one of: the welcome slide, the first-run onboarding cards, a decision or decision bundle, a piece of content (article, video, podcast, event, or vendor news), and, at the very end, the caught-up card. Decision cards can open a bottom sheet with the recommended action plan while you're viewing them; what's inside a card and how to act on it is covered in the decision workspace and acting on decisions.

The side rail

Next to every card (desktop and tablet widths only) is a vertical strip of icon buttons. What appears depends on the card:

• Save. Bookmarks the card. Toggling it shows a brief "Saved" or "Removed from saved" confirmation. Saved items live under My Data, not in a separate Feed tab.
• Playlist. Shown only on video and podcast cards. Adds the item to your playlist, with "Added to playlist" / "Removed from playlist" confirmation.
• Read list. Shown only on article and vendor-news cards. Adds the item to your reading list, with the matching confirmation.
• Share, LinkedIn, Email, SMS. Shown only on public, industry-wide content (articles, videos, podcasts, events, vendor news): items that are safe to broadcast outside your business. Share copies a link (or opens your device's native share sheet); LinkedIn copies a suggested post and opens LinkedIn's share dialog; Email and SMS open your mail or messaging app with the link pre-filled.
• Poll. Available on every card. Opens a modal to send the card to your team for a quick read, without exposing a public link. This is the only share channel offered on internal cards, decisions, decision bundles, and anything specific to your business, because those never get a public link.

Every share action shows a short toast confirming what happened ("Shared," "Link copied," "Post copied. Paste into LinkedIn," "Opening email," "Opening messages," or "Could not share" if something goes wrong).

Scroll progress bar

A thin vertical bar runs down the right edge of the column, from just under the filter row to just above the bottom of the screen. It fills from top to bottom as you move through the deck, so the fraction filled always equals your current card position divided by the total number of cards (including the welcome slide and the caught-up card at the end). It's a quick visual read on how much of today's briefing is left.

Moving through the deck

You can move the deck three ways, and they all do the same thing: advance or retreat by exactly one full card.

1. 1Scroll or swipe. Mouse wheel, trackpad, or touch scroll moves the deck one card at a time; the snap behavior stops it cleanly on each card rather than letting you land halfway.
2. 2Keyboard. Press j or the Down arrow to advance to the next card; press k or the Up arrow to go back one. Both animate smoothly to the next snap point. Keyboard navigation is disabled while you're typing in a text field or text area, so it never hijacks a keystroke meant for a form.
3. 3Filter or time-window change. Clicking a different filter pill or picking a different time window jumps the deck straight back to the top card for that view.

Focus deep-links

A link into the Feed can point at one specific card using a URL like /feed?focus=<id>. When the Feed loads with a focus parameter, it finds the matching card in the currently filtered set and scrolls straight to it (smoothly, on load) instead of opening on the welcome slide. This is how links from notifications, emails, or other parts of the product land you exactly on the relevant card rather than making you scroll to find it. If the focused card isn't in the currently active filter or time window, widen the filter or time window to bring it back into view.

The "All caught up" end state

The last card in every deck, after the final decision or content item, is the same regardless of which filter or time window you're on:

All caught up Verinode IQ is continuously analyzing your data and scanning industry sources. New decisions, insights, and updates will appear here as they surface. Check back soon. Your next briefing is building.

This is not an error or a dead end. It means Verinode has nothing further to show you under your current filter and time window right now, not that Verinode has stopped working. Decisions and content keep flowing in as your data updates and as industry sources publish, and they'll appear at the top of the deck (or woven into it) the next time you check.

Best-practice example

Start your morning on the welcome slide, note the briefing stats (say, "3 decisions need attention, 2 new articles"), then press j repeatedly to move through the deck at your own pace: acting on or saving what matters, letting content you don't care about pass by. If you're specifically catching up on decisions, switch to the Decisions pill first so content doesn't interrupt the run. If a Slack message or email links you straight to one card, that link opens on the exact card via the focus parameter, no scrolling required. When you hit "All caught up," you're done for now: the deck rebuilds itself as new signals and content arrive, not on a fixed schedule you have to remember to check.

Related reading

• The Feed
• The decision workspace
• Acting on decisions
• Understanding your margin