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My Monitors

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The My Monitors panel (internal id monitors) is the dashboard's personal keyword-alert surface. Enter comma-separated keywords, and any matching article across every news feed in the app lights up in your monitor's assigned colour — including articles inside clusters. Monitors persist across sessions via localStorage.

The longer-form description of monitor behaviour lives in Features → Custom Monitors; this page is the short panel reference.

What the panel shows

  • Input row — a text box for comma-separated keywords and an Add button. Pressing Enter in the input also adds the monitor.
  • Monitor rows — each registered monitor shows its keywords, its assigned colour chip, and a remove affordance.
  • Color palette — pulled from MONITOR_COLORS in @/config; each new monitor is assigned a colour automatically so rows stay visually distinct.

Behaviour outside the panel:

  • Matching articles in every news feed (Live News, regional feeds, etc.) render with the monitor's colour as an accent.
  • Inside news clusters, child articles inherit the monitor colour so a monitor match is visible even when the cluster is collapsed.

Panel id is monitors; canonical component is src/components/MonitorPanel.ts. Title from i18n (panels.monitors); config name: "My Monitors".

How you reach it

  • Cmd+K: type monitor or keyword.
  • Availability by variant: registered and enabled by default in the full/geopolitical (priority: 2), tech (priority: 2), finance (priority: 2), and commodity (priority: 2) variants. Not present in the happy variant. Source: monitors entries in FULL_PANELS (:62), TECH_PANELS (:282), FINANCE_PANELS (:473), COMMODITY_PANELS (:775) of src/config/panels.ts.

Data sources

None — monitors are entirely client-side. Keyword lists persist to browser localStorage so they survive reloads without an account. Matching is a substring check applied in-app against incoming news items.

Refresh cadence

Real-time, client-side: matches are applied as news items arrive; no polling or server-side cadence.

Tier & gating

Free. No premium flag in any variant registration.