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title: "Setup Automatic Email on Documentation Updates"
description: "In this topic, you will learn how to use Distill to watch the documents updates page and automatically be emailed a notice that updates have changed."
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    <h2 id="section-name">Get email on doc updates</h2>
    <p>This document will guide you through the process of setting up a third-party product, called <em>Distill</em>, to be notified when the documentation updates page changes. Limited use of this tool is free, and getting a notice once a week from one page falls well within the free use. Follow these steps to configure the email notification:</p>
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      <li>Browse to <a href="https://distill.io/">https://distill.io/</a>.</li>
      <li>At the top-right of the page, click the <strong>Login</strong> link.</li>
      <li>Click the <strong>Sign up</strong> link.
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      <li>Complete the form and click <strong>Create Account</strong>.
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      <li>From the <em>Watchlist</em> page click <strong>Add Webpage</strong>.
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      <li>Add the URL to the document updates page, <em>https://support.brightcove.com/doc-updates.html</em>, then click <strong>Go</strong>.
        <aside class="bcls-aside bcls-aside--information language-editable">Note that you can use this for ANY page - we are just using the document updates page here as an example.</aside>
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      <li>You see the <em>Documentation Updates</em> page open over the Distill web page. Click the <strong>Visual Selector</strong> on.
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      <li>Near the top-right of the page, position your cursor just below the text <strong>Page Contents</strong> so that text and all the dates are highlighted, as shown here:
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      <li>Once the block is highlighted correctly, click it. The page will then appear as follows:
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        <aside class="bcls-aside bcls-aside--information language-editable">A specific part of the page is defined as a watch area so you won't be notified for page changes that may occur in which you are not interested. An example of this would be a change to the navigation on the left side of the page.</aside>
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      <li>Click <strong>Save</strong>.
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      <li>On the <em>Options - Add Monitor</em> page, be sure the email to whom you wish the email sent is correct, then click <strong>Save</strong>.
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      <li>You will see the single watchlist item you have created.
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    <p>Once the Documentation Updates page is changed, you will be notified at the latest six hours after the change (the minimal time between checks in the free version of Distill). The email will appear similar to the following:</p>
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