The right schedule for your AIDular report depends on how fast your topic changes. Fast-moving topics like breaking news need daily. Slow-moving ones like industry trends need monthly. Most things sit somewhere in between.
Picking the wrong schedule is one of the most common mistakes new users make. Too frequent and your inbox fills up with repetitive emails you start ignoring. Too rare and you miss things that matter. Here is how to get it right.
The Simple Rule
Ask yourself one question: how often does something genuinely new happen with this topic?
If the answer is "every day or two," go daily. If it is "every week or so," go weekly. If it is "once a month at most," go monthly.
That is really it. Everything below just helps you apply that rule to specific situations.
When to Choose Daily
Daily reports make sense when:
- You are tracking breaking news about a person, company, or event
- You are monitoring stock prices or crypto that shift fast
- You are following a sports season with games most days
- You need to catch a time-sensitive opportunity, like a scholarship deadline or a product restock
Daily is also useful for short bursts. Tracking a product launch for one week? Set it to daily, then switch or pause when it is over.
Watch out: daily reports on slow topics tend to repeat the same information. If your last three daily emails said basically the same thing, switch to weekly.
When to Choose Weekly
Weekly is the sweet spot for most people. Good fits include:
- Industry news in your field or a field you are studying
- Job listings for a role or company you are watching
- A creator or brand you follow but do not need minute-by-minute updates on
- Academic research on a topic you are writing about
- Local news for a city or neighbourhood
Weekly gives AIDular enough time to collect a meaningful batch of updates, so each email actually feels worth reading.
When to Choose Monthly
Monthly works best for topics that move slowly:
- Long-term trends in a market, technology, or social issue
- Regulatory or policy changes in a government or industry
- Competitor strategy shifts that take months to show up
- Personal finance topics like interest rates or housing market data
Monthly reports are also a good fit if you just want a background awareness of something but it is not urgent.
A Step-by-Step Way to Decide
- Write down your topic in one sentence.
- Think back: how many genuinely new things happened with this topic in the last 30 days?
- If it is more than 15, choose daily. If it is 4 to 15, choose weekly. If it is fewer than 4, choose monthly.
- Set up your report in AIDular with that schedule.
- After two weeks, check your emails. Are they repetitive? Bump the frequency down. Are they missing things you had to find yourself? Bump it up.
It takes one small adjustment and you are done.
A Copy-Paste Example Prompt
Here is a weekly prompt for someone tracking the electric vehicle industry:
Topic: Electric vehicle industry news Prompt: "Search for the latest news about electric vehicles published in the last 7 days. Include new model announcements, battery technology updates, government policy changes, and major company news from manufacturers like Tesla, Rivian, BYD, and others. Summarise each item in 2-3 sentences with a source link." Schedule: Weekly
This prompt tells AIDular exactly what to look for, sets a time window that matches the weekly schedule, and asks for a clean, sourced summary.
One More Tip: Mix Schedules for Different Reports
You are not locked into one schedule for everything. You can run a daily report for a fast topic and a monthly one for a slow topic at the same time. AIDular handles them separately, so each email arrives when it should.
If you are not sure where to start, the free Lite plan at aidular.com lets you try a report with no cost. Set one up, watch two or three emails arrive, and you will know pretty quickly whether the timing is right.