Octopi / Use cases / Company news monitoring
Monitoring & alerts
Track company and competitor news
Tell Octopi the companies or topics to watch. It collects new results from many sources into a spreadsheet — deduped, newest-first, each tagged with its source — so you have a living news feed on your Mac.
How monitoring works
Set what to watch
Add the companies, competitors or topics you care about and the sources to pull from.
Octopi collects and dedups
It gathers new items across sources, drops duplicates, and appends them as fresh rows, newest first.
Review a living feed
Each row is tagged with its source and topic, so you can scan, filter and act on what’s new.
| Date | Source | Headline |
|---|---|---|
| today | Google News | Acme raises Series C |
| today | Users discuss Globex outage | |
| yesterday | Federal Register | Initech filing published |
Example feed. New items are appended as rows, deduped and newest-first.
Why monitor with Octopi
News, forums, filings
Pulls from Google News, Bing News, GDELT, Hacker News, Reddit, SEC filings, arXiv, PubMed, the US Federal Register and RSS feeds in one place.
Only what’s new
Duplicates are dropped, so your feed shows fresh items newest-first.
Filter and act
Each row is tagged by source and topic, so you can sort, filter and follow up.
On your Mac
Your watchlist and the feed live on your own machine.
Questions
Which sources does it watch?
Google News, Bing News, GDELT (world news), Hacker News, Reddit, SEC filings, arXiv and PubMed papers, the US Federal Register, and RSS feeds such as your Google Alerts.
Can I watch a whole list of companies?
Yes. Add the companies or topics you care about and Octopi collects new items for each into the same workbook.
Does it remove duplicates?
Yes. New results are deduped and appended newest-first, with the source and topic tagged on each row.
Is my watchlist private?
Yes. Octopi is local-first — your watchlist and the collected feed stay on your Mac.
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