👥 News & Reading recipe
Monitor Social Media Mentions with an AI Routine
Monitor social media mentions of your brand, product, or the topics you follow, without living in the feed, refreshed every 2 hours.
The exact prompt
Paste this into a new routine.
Monitor the conversations and trending topics around the subjects I care about: local-first software, AI assistants, and Mac productivity. Every couple of hours, summarize what's gaining traction, the angle people are taking, and anything I should weigh in on. Keep it to a short briefing I can read in under a minute.
Every 2 hours · Fast tier
None needed, runs out of the box.
Set the cadence. Keep the default every-2-hours, or dial it up or down to match how fast your niche moves. cron: 0 */2 * * *
Set it up
Step 02Pick the Social Monitor recipe
Choose Social Monitor from the library, or paste the example prompt into a new routine.
Step 03Name your topics
Edit the prompt to list the subjects, hashtags, or communities you want tracked.
Sample output
What a run looks like.
Saved to your local output history · stays on your Mac
Social pulse · 2:00 PM
Done
Trending: a thread on local-first AI is gaining traction.
Angle: privacy and data ownership, your exact pitch.
Worth a reply: a question about model-agnostic memory.
- Who it's for
- Founders, marketers, and creators who need to know what's trending in their niche without living in the feed.
- What lands in your morning
- A rolling summary of the conversations and trending topics in your space, refreshed through the day, so you catch the moment without the scroll.
FAQ
Questions about this recipe.
How often does the Social Monitor run?
By default every 2 hours. You can change the cadence in plain English or with a cron expression.
Does it need social accounts connected?
No connectors are required to start. It tracks the topics you name and writes summaries to your local history.
Will running every 2 hours cost a lot?
It uses the Fast intelligence tier by default, the cheapest brain, and you set the tier per routine to control spend.
Are the summaries kept private?
They run on your Mac and save locally. The topics and posts it reviews go to the AI to be summarized, either through Routines AI, which stores neither the prompt nor the answer, or straight to your provider on your own key.
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Run Social Monitor on your Mac.
Install Routines, paste the prompt, set the schedule. It runs locally and the output stays on your machine.
Step 01 · Install Routines. Download the DMG, drag to Applications, and sign in with Google once.