Hear the topic before it peaks
A weekly track of the topics you care about across your sources, with the shifts called out
- Runs while your laptop is closed
- Reports in Littlebird and by email
- Free plan includes 5 routines
Of your four topics, retail media rose fastest last week.
- Rising: retail media came up far more often than the week before, mostly on industry blogs, after two grocery chains opened ad networks.
- Fading: creator partnerships came up less often for the third week in a row.
- Shifting: talk about email privacy turned from new rules to how brands measure results without open tracking.
Your fourth topic, packaging design, held steady.
The problem
By the time a trend is obvious, the advantage of noticing it is gone. The early signals were there, scattered across feeds, threads, and offhand mentions nobody collected.
Tracking a topic manually means remembering to look. Remembering is not a system.
What it does
Every week, this routine tracks mentions and movement on the topics you name, and shows you what is rising, fading, or changing shape.
You get the trajectory, not just the snapshot, so you can move while a trend is still early instead of retweeting its funeral.
Try the prompt
Copy it into a new Littlebird routine, then set the days and times that fit your schedule
- Open Littlebird and go to Routines. Open the menu next to New Routine and choose Set up manually.
- Paste the prompt into Instructions, then set the days and time under Run.
- Littlebird runs it on schedule from then on. You can pause or edit it anytime. Auto-pause is on by default and pauses it if reports go unread.
You can also choose Create with Littlebird and describe the routine in chat.
Every Monday track mentions of my key topics this week across news and industry blogs
Why make it a routine?
You can fake this with a chat skill and enough copy-paste. Most people keep it up for a week, then stop, because the copy-paste is the actual job.
A routine removes the choreography: the context is already there, the schedule is already set, and the output shows up where you need it.
And it is private by design: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and CCPA aligned, and your data is never sold.
Frequently asked questions
How many topics can it track?
A focused handful works best, about three to five. Edit the list in the prompt as your interests move.
Does it alert in real time?
No. It runs weekly by default, and you can switch it to daily if a topic needs closer watching.
More routines like this one
Put Littlebird to work
Littlebird is free to start, and your routines also work on the web, iPhone and Android
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