How to Set Up and Schedule Your First Taco Digest

Taco Digest sends one email containing new items from the RSS feeds, subreddits, YouTube channels, and newsletters you choose, delivered on the days and at the hour you set. To start, create a digest, add your sources, pick a delivery schedule, and confirm the address — the site offers a 14-day trial with no card required. This guide covers each step, what the finished email looks like, and where people commonly get stuck.

Before you start

You need:

• An email address to receive the digest (the product refers to a "Taco address" for forwarded newsletters).
• The URLs or names of the sources you want: RSS feed links, subreddit names, YouTube channel names, and newsletter senders.
• A rough idea of when you actually read email, so the delivery time fits your routine.

The site's own framing is "Keep up without getting overwhelmed" — the digest is built only from sources you pick, with no algorithm, ads, or notifications. That matters for setup: nothing is added for you, so an empty digest means you haven't added sources yet, not that the service is broken.

Step 1: Create your digest and start the trial

1. Go to tacodigest.com and choose to create your first digest.
2. Start the 14-day trial. The site states no card is required for the trial.
3. Expect a confirmation step for your email address before delivery begins.

Expected result: an account with an empty digest ready for sources. If you don't see a confirmation email, check spam before assuming signup failed — this is the most common first blocker.

Step 2: Add your sources

The digest supports four source types. Add them one at a time and check each appears in your source list before moving on.

Practical tips:

• RSS: paste the feed URL, not the homepage. If a site offers multiple feeds (full text vs. excerpts), pick the one you want to read.
• Subreddits: use the name without the r/ prefix if the field rejects it, and start with "top posts of the day" style sources rather than high-volume live feeds.
• YouTube: add channels whose upload pace you can keep up with; a channel that posts daily will dominate a weekly digest.
• Newsletters: the sample digest shows newsletters "forwarded to your Taco address," so the setup is forwarding rather than subscribing inside the app. Confirm the forwarding address in your digest settings before you forward anything.

Expected result: a source list that matches what you actually read. A good starting point is 5–10 sources — enough to fill an email, few enough that you'll read it.

Step 3: Set the days and hour

Choose which days the digest arrives and the hour it's sent. The sample digest is dated "Tuesday, 1 September, 8:01" in Amsterdam, which illustrates the pattern: a fixed morning slot tied to a timezone.

• Pick days that match your reading habit. A weekday-morning digest suits work reading; a weekend digest suits hobby sources like r/homelab.
• Pick an hour you'll actually open it. A digest that lands at 6 a.m. when you check email at 9 a.m. just adds clutter.
• Check the timezone. The sample shows a local city and time, so confirm the digest uses the timezone you expect before you judge the delivery time.

Expected result: a scheduled digest. After the first send, compare the arrival time to what you set; if it's off, the timezone setting is the usual cause.

What the email looks like

The sample digest on the site shows the structure you'll get:

• A header with the date, issue number, and local weather/currency line (the sample shows Amsterdam weather and a EUR/USD rate).
• Grouped sections by source, each with a short label and item count — e.g., "Hacker News — Best stories of the day," "r/selfhosted — Top posts of the day," "NASA — New videos."
• Numbered items with titles, scores, and timestamps, so you can scan and skip.
• Newsletter items listed with the sender and subject line.

There are no ads and no algorithmic ranking beyond whatever each source itself provides (Reddit's "top," Hacker News' "best"). That's the trade-off: you see what your chosen sources surfaced, not what an algorithm thinks you'll click.

Common snags

• Empty or thin digest: too few sources, or sources that update rarely. Add one or two high-frequency sources, or switch to a daily schedule.
• One source swamps the rest: a busy subreddit or daily YouTube channel can fill the email. Remove it or move it to a less frequent digest.
• Newsletters don't appear: forwarding wasn't set up or went to the wrong address. Verify the Taco address in settings and re-forward.
• Wrong delivery time: timezone mismatch. Recheck the city/time shown in your settings.
• Trial questions: the site states the 14-day trial requires no card. Pricing beyond the trial isn't specified in the available material, so check the site's plan page before the trial ends if you plan to continue.

Is it worth setting up?

If you already read a handful of feeds, subreddits, and newsletters and want them in one scheduled email instead of scattered across apps, the setup above takes a few minutes and the trial lets you test the format first. If you prefer real-time notifications or algorithmic feeds, this deliberately isn't that — the digest arrives only on the days and at the hour you choose, and contains only what you put in.