Collection · 5 articles
Watch and triggers.
A watch is a standing instruction to be told when something happens, so you can stop checking for it. Each piece here takes one part of that on its own: how to word a watch on your inbox, how the news reaches you when it fires, and the one thing a watch will never catch; how to have the next step prepared and waiting rather than just an alert; how to watch a page or a report that was never email, and how to pick how often it checks; where every watch you've got running is listed, and what stopping one does and doesn't stop; and what to do when six systems announce the same event and the notice that needed a decision is buried among them. Start with the one you came for.
-
Telling your inbox to notify you when something arrives
You are waiting on one email and checking all day. What to say to hand that over, how the news reaches you, and the one thing a watch can never catch.
-
When an email watch lines up the next piece of work
A watch can carry the next step as well as the trigger. What Point prepares when one fires, where that work waits, and which follow-ons are worth attaching.
-
Watching things outside your inbox, on a schedule
Part of your morning round was never email. How to hand that round over, how to pick the interval, and what comes back on the days the check finds something.
-
Seeing and stopping every watch you have running
Standing instructions go stale quietly. Where the whole list lives, what a watch's record proves, and what ending one does and does not stop.
-
Turning ten alerts about one event into one
Six systems announce the same thing and the one that needed a decision sits among them. Where to cut, which notice to keep, and how to be told once.