Routing is the automatic triage of what has been collected: messages from sources receive categories, target channels and turn into ideas in the queue by themselves. It saves you from manually scrolling the feed in search of value: the content finds its own way to your channels and queues.
Categories
Categories are colored labels for sources and messages. A source with categories passes them to all of its messages automatically; messages without categories get them from routing.
Routers — ways to determine a category
A router is a classification rule of one of three types:
- Keywords — case-insensitive phrases, the “any” mode (one is enough) or “all” (every one is needed), stop phrases (a message containing one does not match); on a match the router offers its categories;
- AI (LLM) — an OpenAI-compatible model assigns the text to categories from a list you define; a custom prompt can be set; the model cannot step outside your list of categories. An LLM is a large language model — the same class of technology as chatbots;
- Script — an external program receives messages on input and returns categories; a type for those who can program.
The router chain
Enabled routers work in order, each new message is classified once — the first match wins and the rest are not asked. One router’s failure (a wrong AI key, for example) does not stop the others: the chain simply moves on. A message with no match stays without categories — and without a route.
“Category → channel” rules
Each category can be given a destination channel with the “add to queue” action and, optionally, a target schedule slot. One category can have several channels — an idea is then created in each channel’s queue.
What comes out of it
A message gets categories and a list of target channels. For every “add to queue” rule, an idea is created in the channel’s queue carrying the message’s text (and the target slot, when set) — from there it travels the pipeline like any other: draft, review, schedule. Routing runs once, at the moment the message is collected — and the result is visible right away, both on the message and in the queues.
The test panel
Any router can be checked on a sample text: whether it matches, which categories it offers, what the engine answered and how long it took. The check changes nothing in the data — experiment as much as you like.
What is next
Where the messages come from is the Sources section, how to read the feed is the Message Feed, and what happens to an idea next is the Content Queue.