# Notifications for 'highlight' words

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-for-highlight-words/29280>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2015年五月26日 22:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-for-highlight-words/29280 "2015-05-26T22:00:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\
**Post date:** [2015年五月26日 22:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-for-highlight-words/29280/1 "2015-05-26T22:00:36Z")

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(Apologies if this has already been requested, it’s a tricky one to search for.)

Slack has an awesome feature where [you can set highlight words](https://www.dropbox.com/s/9tttra5izxroye3/Screenshot%202015-05-27%2009.59.13.png?dl=0) which trigger a notification. I think that would be incredibly useful.

Would it be tricky to impliment?

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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [2015年五月26日 22:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-for-highlight-words/29280/2 "2015-05-26T22:25:50Z")

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I believe you have all the hooks available to do that in a plugin. Listen for `post_created` and `post_updated` and generate notifications whenever the raw contains one of the highlighted words.

The _hardest_ part will probably be the UI 😉

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2015年五月26日 23:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-for-highlight-words/29280/3 "2015-05-26T23:33:28Z")

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Another form of this is the “saved search” where a search is performed every (x) days or hours, and any new matches for the search are sent via email.

You can see this on eBay and the like.

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2017年七月20日 01:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-for-highlight-words/29280/5 "2017-07-20T01:40:47Z")

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Yes, I believe @pfaffman was asking about this recently as well.

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**Author:** ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)\
**Post date:** [2025年十二月4日 11:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-for-highlight-words/29280/6 "2025-12-04T11:35:57Z")

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