![]() Visit a webpage you’d like to monitor, such as the Zoom release notes page. If it’s solid gray like it is here, it’s not monitoring any webpages. Once the browser extension is installed, you’ll see the distill.io water droplet icon in the top right corner of your browser. They have extensions for Firefox ( here), Chrome ( here), and Opera ( here). Let’s try out the “local monitor” that uses a browser add-on the “local monitor” will only run when your browser is open. #Distilled web monitor not checking install#In their free version, they’ll monitor five webpages for us using their own servers (“cloud monitor”) or we can install their browser add-on and use our own computer to monitor up to 25 webpages (“local monitor”). If you find what we offer useful, pay for more.” If you’d like more, you’ll need to pay a monthly fee. They give you limited functionality for free. There are a lot of webpage monitors out there. In fact, the only one I can think of right now is Zoom’s release notes, although Canvas release notes might be handy. I don’t have a lot of webpages I want to check for updates. Instead, let’s use a dedicated webpage monitoring service. Some newsfeed readers can handle the task, such as Inoreader, but I don’t find the process for setting it up particularly intuitive. ![]() I want someone to tell me when content has changed. If this were the 1990s, I wouldn’t mind popping over there every week or so to see if there was something new. For example, Zoom posts information about their software updates on their release notes page. ![]() I want to know when content on certain webpages changes. ![]()
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