![]() Name: Change this to something you’ll remember or leave it if what’s already there is good enough. It should already be set to your browser. This will stop a new page opening up every time Distill checks for changes.ĭevice: Don’t change anything here. The monitor page will open up, and you can edit it to suit you. ![]() I’m logged in to Prolific, so the monitor will only alert me if there’s a study that I’m eligible for. Note: As an example, I’ve used the Prolific Studies page. Go to a page you’d like to monitor, and click on the Distill button in your browser toolbar. If you would like to import settings for Prolific & Swagbucks, please skip to Step 5 & come back here when you’re done. You can access the Watchlist at any time through the Distill button in your browser’s toolbar. This is the page where you can manage the settings, for alerts, for any pages that you’re monitoring It has useful advice and a video on how to monitor pages so might be worth a look. You should have been redirected to this page – You’ll need to do this if you want to receive email alerts. If you don’t get automatically redirected, click on the icon and select “Go to Watchlist”. It’s available for Chrome, Firefox & Opera. Step 1: Finding Distill web monitor.Īs I’m using Chrome, I searched for, and then selected, the link for the browser extension.Īlternatively, click here to go straight to the download page for the Distill extensions. If you’re not very tech savvy, you may want to ask a friend or family member to sit down with you to help you set it up. Personally, I find there is NO need to pay for anything extra, the free version is good enough. With the free version, you cannot use the cloud, apps or get more than a certain amount of emails in a month. ![]() I only use the free elements which are limited. Please note: Distill has both free and premium services. You can also check out the Distill guides, where you can watch a video or read further instructions on how to set it up. Please read the “How to Guide” ( PDF version) carefully as it will guide you through setting the monitor up and getting it to work for you. This is really handy for those who use Prolific, as it will reduce your need to check the studies page, since it will check for you. Once you’ve installed Distill on your browser, you can set it up to check webpages at certain intervals and get alerts. Since then, I’ve been playing around with it and, now that I’ve got it set up to work for me, I thought I’d share. I discovered this handy little tool when I was browsing the Reddit Swagbucks page a few weeks ago. Using Distill Web Monitor to get survey alerts Unless you want to pay, you’ll only get alerts when your computer is on, browser is open, & you’re connected to the internet. What’s this? You can get alerts when there are studies available to you on Prolific?
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