Use alerts to surface urgent items, not everything
Alerts are for high-priority signals that require immediate attention. Use them sparingly and tune them to your personal thresholds.
How to use alerts well:
- Reserve alerts for top-tier topics or named entities.
- Set severity tiers: critical, important, informational.
- Configure delivery channels per tier: push for critical, email for important.
- Add conditions like cross-source confirmation to avoid false alarms.
Well-configured alerts reduce the need to constantly check a feed and help you act quickly when something truly important happens.