New-Posts Badge & Re-Scan Reminders: Know the Moment a Tracked Page Posts Something New

A badge on the PostSnag icon when a page you track publishes something new, plus optional email reminders on a cadence you choose, so your captured data never quietly goes stale.

The problem

Captured data is only as good as the moment it was captured: you scan a competitor today, feel current on them, and three weeks later they've posted a dozen more times with nothing telling you it's time to check back in, so tracking a page quietly turns into "tracked it once, months ago." This gets worse the more pages you track, since each one posts on its own schedule and "when did I last check page six" isn't a question anyone's memory answers reliably. It's not just inconvenience: every timing feature PostSnag builds on top of a captured library gets less accurate the staler the underlying data is.

What we're building

Two lightweight nudges: a badge on the PostSnag extension icon when a tracked page has posts you haven't captured yet, based on what your own logged-in session already sees, and optional email reminders on a cadence you set per page, so the nudge reaches you even on days you never open Facebook.

• A badge on the extension icon when a tracked page has new activity, based on what your own session already sees while browsing.

• Optional email reminders on a schedule you choose, per page, independent of any activity check.

• Fully privacy-safe: nothing runs against your account while you're away, the badge just reflects what's visible next time you're there.

How it works for you

Set reminders that match how often each tracked page actually matters, weekly for fast movers, monthly for the rest. If you happen to be browsing Facebook and a tracked page has something new, the icon badge tells you right then, ahead of schedule.

What you get

• No more discovering months later that a tracked page has been sitting on old data the whole time.

• Per-page control, so a fast-moving competitor gets checked weekly while a quiet account gets checked monthly.

• Sharper downstream analytics, since a fresher library means a more accurate overperformance score and trend read.

For example

You track five competitors: two checked weekly, three on a monthly reminder. One Tuesday you notice the extension badge lit up, a quieter competitor on the monthly schedule just launched a new content format two days ago, well ahead of when your reminder would have caught it, so you adjust your own calendar that same week.

What it unlocks

This is the loop that keeps everything else honest: snapshot history is only worth as much as how often you re-scan, and the heatmap and overperformance score are only as sharp as the freshest data behind them. The badge and reminders close that gap, so the rest of PostSnag is always reading from data that reflects what a page is doing now.

Who it's for

Anyone tracking more than a couple of pages regularly, agencies managing watchlists across several clients, and anyone who's been burned by realizing their competitor data was months out of date right when it mattered.