Automated scientific monitoring
Set up Charlie to monitor PubMed, bioRxiv, HAL, or any other website: it scans, filters out duplicates, summarizes the content, and alerts you by email as soon as a relevant publication is released.
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Monitoring turns Charlie into a watchdog: you specify what interests you, and Charlie periodically scans the sources you designate (PubMed journals, bioRxiv preprints, HAL, institutional websites, etc.) and provides you only with relevant publications—already filtered and summarized.
No more need to sift through a flood of raw alerts every morning: Charlie notifies you only when it finds something new, filtering out duplicates and summarizing what deserves your attention.
1. Set up a monitoring system in 4 steps
- 1 From the "Alerts" tab, click "New Alert" and give it a short name that describes your search intent (e.g., "MDM2 inhibitors clinical").
- 2 Describe in plain language what you want to monitor. Charlie understands nuanced queries (“recent publications on MDM2 inhibitors in triple-negative breast cancer”).
- 3 Add your sources: scientific databases (PubMed, bioRxiv, HAL, PMC) and/or specific website URLs (laboratory, health agency, conference). Charlie can also suggest relevant sources.
- 4 Select the frequency (daily, weekly, monthly) and enable email alerts. The first scan will start immediately.
2. Run a manual scan
Want to get results right away without waiting for the next automatic scan? Click "Scan Now" on the previous day's report. The report generated is identical to an automatic scan and counts toward your manual scan quota.
3. Email notifications and reports
Whenever Charlie finds at least one relevant publication that you haven't seen before, you'll receive an email with an executive summary and a direct link to the report. No email is sent if nothing new has come up—no clutter in your inbox.
The full report lists the new references along with their abstracts, clickable citations (from PubMed, bioRxiv, HAL, etc.), and a tally of the number of web pages analyzed by Charlie to generate the summary.
4. Automatic deduplication
Charlie saves all references already included in a previous scan. If the same post appears in a new scan (for example, from a different source), it is automatically excluded from the report. You’ll never see the same thing twice.
5. Quotas and Subscription Plans
The number of active alerts, the frequency of automatic scans, and the number of manual scans per month depend on your subscription plan. If your subscription expires, your alerts are retained but paused—you can retrieve your entire history by reactivating them.
If you reach your plan’s limit (number of alerts, manual scans), Charlie will prompt you to upgrade directly via a dedicated pop-up window. If your subscription expires, your alerts are retained but paused—you can retrieve your entire history by reactivating them.
Tip
It’s better to set up several targeted monitoring streams than a single, very broad one: you’ll see less noise, and Charlie can tailor its scanning strategy to each topic.
Start your first monitoring session
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Capture what matters with Notes
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