Cronycle product update #27 - Monitor and filter newsletters and alerts, notes in Story Arcs, sourcing guides & more # 27

Curators and analysts typically use Story Arcs to give several perspectives and/or complementary information about an event and to extract insights. 

Notes on your boards can now be grouped into Story Arcs, making them even more valuable for collecting insights from different items. 

To collect insights from several content types, you can:

• Annotate important sections of text in a converted PDF file or email. Then extract the annotations as a note which you can now add to a story arc alongside other relevant notes, articles or tweets.
• Prepare a monthly or weekly report as a story arc containing important insights in crafted notes (with links to supporting evidence) and articles with summary.

Read the updated tutorial.

Primary sources are incredibly valuable, but also complex, costly, and time-consuming to develop and mine. Well-chosen, your secondary sources can bring you close to the genesis of a piece of information and provide you time and space to create thought-provoking and directive insights. If your secondary source strategy, however, is shallow or limited, it can blind you to incoming threats and disruptors, or keep you from gaining a full understanding of your competitive space and customers’ needs.

We've started publishing guides to help you improve how you find and leverage information. Our most recent series focused on sourcing - a key challenge we hope our advice will remedy:

• Why your source strategy is so important
• The benefits of an inclusive source strategy
• Secondary source strategies: use cases for M&CI and GTM teams
• 5 common mistakes when creating a secondary source strategy 
• Best practices for creating a secondary source strategy that works

We hope you'll find these helpful!

We continued to add a few additional touch points to extract annotations as notes - this time for the board tiles, under the 3-dot button. This is a good way to extract all highlighted text, with references, from one article, email or converted PDF into a note. Learn more.

We've simplified the text formatting used when extracting annotations as notes. Instead of the quote style, there is no style applied so it is easier to switch to bullets, paragraph, or quotes. Learn more.