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I'm very unfamiliar with this family of tools, but if anyone knows a tool like this that can monitor arxiv or Google scholar for new papers matching a particular query, I'm very interested. I checked Zapier recently but I didn't see these among the support apps.

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This is definitely something you could build in https://val.town. Someone made a little daily query that checks for new citations on a particular paper:

https://www.val.town/ernest.newCitationNotification

I'm the founder of val.town, so email me if you'd like help setting this up. I'd be more than happy to pair program with you on it. My email is steve @ val.town

In Google Scholar, after your search there will be a button at the end of the page (on mobile, maybe somewhere else on desktop). The button is "Create alert" with an email icon by it. Select this and there will be a form for where to send the alert and the query. Click "Create alert" to get automatically notified of new results.

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