From 5f6107bbf82bc89ba0e6306a40fc468bd41a29b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bryan Van Deusen <bryan.vandeusen@fabledsword.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:46:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat(briefing): add News Preferences section with topic
 include/exclude inputs

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 frontend/src/views/SettingsView.vue | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+)

diff --git a/frontend/src/views/SettingsView.vue b/frontend/src/views/SettingsView.vue
index 7dbe453..d230735 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/SettingsView.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/views/SettingsView.vue
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { apiGet, apiPost, apiPut, apiDelete, listGroups, createGroup, deleteGrou
 import { usePushStore } from "@/stores/push";
 import type { User } from "@/types/auth";
 import PaginationBar from "@/components/PaginationBar.vue";
+import TagInput from "@/components/TagInput.vue";
 
 const store = useSettingsStore();
 const authStore = useAuthStore();
@@ -268,6 +269,17 @@ const newFeedUrl = ref('');
 const newFeedCategory = ref('');
 const addingFeed = ref(false);
 const refreshingFeeds = ref(false);
+const briefingIncludeTopics = ref<string[]>([]);
+const briefingExcludeTopics = ref<string[]>([]);
+
+function _parseTopics(raw: unknown): string[] {
+  try {
+    const val = typeof raw === 'string' ? JSON.parse(raw) : raw;
+    return Array.isArray(val) ? val.map(String) : [];
+  } catch {
+    return [];
+  }
+}
 
 async function loadBriefingTab() {
   briefingConfig.value = await getBriefingConfig();
@@ -276,6 +288,25 @@ async function loadBriefingTab() {
   if (!briefingConfig.value.timezone) {
     briefingConfig.value.timezone = Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone;
   }
+  const allSettings = await apiGet<Record<string, string>>('/api/settings').catch(() => ({} as Record<string, string>));
+  briefingIncludeTopics.value = _parseTopics(allSettings['briefing_include_topics'] ?? '[]');
+  briefingExcludeTopics.value = _parseTopics(allSettings['briefing_exclude_topics'] ?? '[]');
+}
+
+async function saveIncludeTopics(topics: string[]) {
+  briefingIncludeTopics.value = topics;
+  await apiPut('/api/settings', { briefing_include_topics: JSON.stringify(topics) });
+}
+
+async function saveExcludeTopics(topics: string[]) {
+  briefingExcludeTopics.value = topics;
+  await apiPut('/api/settings', { briefing_exclude_topics: JSON.stringify(topics) });
+}
+
+const _STANDARD_TOPICS = ['technology', 'science', 'politics', 'business', 'health', 'environment', 'local', 'entertainment', 'sports', 'other'];
+async function fetchTopicSuggestions(q: string): Promise<string[]> {
+  if (!q) return _STANDARD_TOPICS;
+  return _STANDARD_TOPICS.filter((t) => t.startsWith(q.toLowerCase()));
 }
 
 async function geocodeLocation(key: 'home' | 'work') {
@@ -1763,6 +1794,41 @@ function formatUserDate(iso: string): string {
         </div>
       </section>
 
+      <!-- News Preferences -->
+      <section class="settings-section full-width">
+        <h2>News Preferences</h2>
+        <p class="section-desc">
+          Tell the briefing what topics you care about. Topics are matched against
+          classified RSS items before each briefing runs.
+        </p>
+        <div class="settings-field">
+          <label class="field-label">Interested in</label>
+          <TagInput
+            :model-value="briefingIncludeTopics"
+            placeholder="e.g. technology, science, local"
+            :fetch-tags="fetchTopicSuggestions"
+            @update:model-value="saveIncludeTopics"
+          />
+        </div>
+        <div class="settings-field" style="margin-top: 0.75rem">
+          <label class="field-label">Not interested in</label>
+          <TagInput
+            :model-value="briefingExcludeTopics"
+            placeholder="e.g. sports, celebrity"
+            :fetch-tags="fetchTopicSuggestions"
+            @update:model-value="saveExcludeTopics"
+          />
+        </div>
+        <details class="topic-vocab-hint" style="margin-top: 0.75rem">
+          <summary style="cursor: pointer; color: var(--color-text-muted); font-size: 0.82rem">Standard topic vocabulary</summary>
+          <p class="field-hint" style="margin-top: 0.35rem">
+            technology · science · politics · business · health · environment ·
+            local · entertainment · sports · other
+          </p>
+          <p class="field-hint">Custom terms are also accepted.</p>
+        </details>
+      </section>
+
       <!-- Notifications -->
       <section class="settings-section full-width">
         <h2>Notifications</h2>