My Interests lets you tell Changeflow about the specifics that are relevant to you across all your sources. This setting helps the AI understand your broader needs when analyzing changes and creating summaries.
Important: Only include interests that apply to everything you're tracking. If an interest only applies to one or two sources, add it to those sources directly using the "What's important to you?" setting instead.
What are My Interests?
While each source has its own "What's important to you?" setting that describes what to look for on that specific page, My Interests describes what you care about across the board. Think of it as context that helps Changeflow understand you as a user - but only include things that genuinely apply to all your monitoring.
How My Interests Works
When Changeflow detects changes on any of your sources, it uses My Interests in several ways:
Steering summaries: When creating summaries of detected changes, the AI will emphasize aspects that relate to your interests. For example, if you're interested in "AI developments" and a news site you're tracking publishes various articles, the summaries will give more prominence to AI-related stories.
Filtering relevance: When monitoring pages for new content, Changeflow can use your interests to help determine what's most relevant to surface to you.
Link analysis: When tracking pages that link to other articles (like news sites or blogs), your interests help prioritize which linked pages are most worth highlighting.
Setting My Interests
- Go to Account Settings from the menu
- Find the AI Settings section
- Enter your interests in the text field
- Changes save automatically
Examples
Only include interests that genuinely apply across all your sources. Here are some examples:
For a technology professional:
AI developments, cybersecurity news, cloud computing, startup funding rounds
For an investor:
Market movements, earnings reports, regulatory changes, merger and acquisition activity
For a researcher:
Academic publications, grant announcements, conference proceedings, methodology developments
For a marketing professional:
Brand mentions, competitor campaigns, social media trends, industry benchmarks
Tell it What to Ignore
Just like with source-level settings, you can tell Changeflow to ignore certain things across all your sources. This is particularly useful for filtering out noise that appears everywhere.
Ignoring topics or themes:
Ignore anything related to sports, entertainment news, celebrity gossip
Ignoring geographic regions:
Ignore news specifically about Asia-Pacific markets
Ignoring certain types of content:
Ignore press releases and sponsored content
If you find yourself repeatedly telling individual sources to ignore the same things, consider adding those to My Interests instead.
Specifying Information You Care About
You can also use My Interests to tell Changeflow what specific information to highlight in summaries. Use phrases like "I am particularly interested in..." to steer how notifications are structured.
For financial monitoring:
I am particularly interested in dates, monetary amounts, company names, and executive names
For job tracking:
I am particularly interested in job title, salary, location, and application deadline
For regulatory monitoring:
I am particularly interested in effective dates, compliance requirements, and penalties
This helps ensure that across all your sources, Changeflow highlights the data points that matter most to you.
Tips
- Only include things relevant to all sources: This is the key point - if an interest only applies to some of your sources, put it on those sources instead
- Be specific but not too narrow: "AI developments" is better than just "technology" but also better than "GPT-4 architecture changes"
- List multiple interests: You can include several topics separated by commas
- Include things to ignore: Add "ignore X, Y, Z" to filter out noise across all sources
- Update as needed: Your interests may evolve - feel free to update them anytime
Interests at Different Levels
You can set interests at three levels, and they all combine together:
| Setting | Purpose | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| What's important to you? (source level) | What specific changes to monitor on this page | Single source |
| Interests (tag level) | Shared interests for all sources with this tag | All sources with the tag |
| My Interests (account level) | Your broader interests for steering AI analysis | All sources |
How They Combine
Unlike other settings that override, interests are additive. When checking a source, Changeflow combines:
- The source's own interests
- Plus any interests from the source's tags
- Plus your global My Interests
This means you can use tags to add shared interests to groups of sources. For example, a "competitors" tag might add "pricing changes, new product launches" to all competitor sources, while each individual source still has its own specific interests.
Both work together. The source-level setting determines what changes trigger notifications, while My Interests helps the AI understand how to frame and prioritize information across all your monitoring.
Example Use Case
Imagine you're monitoring:
- A competitor's pricing page (looking for "price changes")
- An industry news site (looking for "new articles")
- A regulatory body's announcements page (looking for "new guidance documents")
If My Interests includes "sustainability regulations, ESG compliance", then:
- Price change notifications might highlight if the change relates to eco-friendly products
- News article summaries will emphasize environmental and sustainability angles
- Regulatory summaries will focus on ESG-related guidance
This way, even though each source tracks different things, the AI understands your underlying interest in sustainability across all of them.
Learn More
For detailed guidance on configuring individual sources, see The "What's important to you?" setting. Many of the same techniques - like ignoring things or specifying what information you care about - can be used at both the global and source level.