Watching

Some questions don't have an answer yet. Rates move, a limit gets announced, a price drops. Ask Manwe to keep checking, and it looks things up on a schedule and tells you when there's something worth knowing.

Setting one up

Ask the way you'd ask a person. Words like "every Monday", "tell me when", "let me know if", or "keep an eye on" tell Manwe you want it to keep checking, not just answer once.

Manwe answers with where things stand today, then sets up the watch. A small row under the answer shows what it's watching, how often, and when it will tell you. That first answer is the starting point every later check is compared with.

You can also start from home: pick the Keep watch chip under the composer (in a conversation, choose + › Ask differently › Keep watch or type /watch) and say what Manwe should keep an eye on. If your words don't already sound like a standing request, Manwe treats it as one anyway and tells you when it changes.

How often it checks

If you name a time and a rhythm, Manwe uses them. If you don't, it checks at 9:00, daily for prices and rates and weekly for news and announcements. You can choose:

• Daily at a time you pick.
• Weekly on a day and time.
• Monthly on a day of the month. If the month is shorter, it runs on the last day.
• Every few hours, from every hour up to once a week.

When it tells you

A watch that reports every time it looks quickly becomes noise. So each watch has a mode that decides when a check is worth interrupting you:

What each check does

Each check answers the request the way a conversation would: the same advisor, if the conversation had one, your memory from the conversation's worlds, and a fresh search for the thing being watched. The task uses its configured model; a retained advisor's fixed or allowed-model assignment is respected. An unavailable assigned model is reported instead of replaced silently.

Then Manwe compares the new answer with what the last check found. Restated facts, small wording differences, and routine noise don't count as a change. Only the comparison decides whether you hear about it; quiet checks still update the record, so the next comparison starts from the latest facts.

Numbers are held to a stricter standard than usual. You can make it stricter still: a watch's Evidence setting can require a dated observation, or a current one no older than you choose. A figure in a watch update has to come from a source, cited, with its date. If no source shows the current figure, the update says so plainly instead of estimating. A watch you can't trust is worse than no watch.

The Watching place

Watching in the sidebar lists everything Manwe is checking for you, with New watch and a search field at the top. Each row shows the schedule and either the next check or a status: Paused, Checking…, or Needs attention when a check failed twice in a row. Expand a row to see when it reports, the last finding with the date of its evidence, and how often it has checked and reported. Its … menu has:

You can also reach a watch from the conversation itself: the row under the original answer has a Manage button.

Where updates arrive

An update is posted into the watch's conversation, marked as an update, so you can reply and keep talking about it. You also get a Mac notification with a short headline; click it to open the conversation. Manwe asks for permission to send notifications the first time you set up a watch, and Settings › Notifications › Watch updates turns them off. Updates are saved in their conversations either way.

If you've connected Telegram, updates arrive there as well, and replying continues the same conversation. You can turn that off in Settings › Connected apps.