"What are the differences between story tiles and the summary?"

A user recently asked us: "What are the differences between story tiles and the summary?"

Here's the answer!

Storytell reports are built from Story Tiles™. You can learn more about Story Tiles™ here.

Think of each Story Tile™ as a building block that we use to then generate the overall summary (or that we use transform the underlying content into a blog post, etc.)

Here's an example from a Chrome Extension page:

Here's an example from a Storytell report:

This Storytell report: The Mediterranean Diet Really Is That Good for You. Here’s Why. - The New York Times has a number of component Story Tiles™:

Here's an example Story Tile™:

Here is a sample Story Tile™ from the report above: The Mediterranean diet, which is rich in whole grains, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and healthy fats, has been found to have protective effects on cardiovascular health in the Seven Countries Study. You can see that this Story Tile™ was based on the original text from part (but not all) of the original NY Times article: