‘My Topics’ and ‘My Alerts’ are dedicated spaces where you can easily view and manage your Alert subscriptions and the Topics included in your Personal Alerts. From here, you can organize your content, adjust email delivery settings, and pin your most important items for quick access.
Note: Available features depend on your organization’s license.
My Topics
The My Topics page displays a list of all the Topics currently included in your Personal Alerts. To populate this list, add Topics to a Personal Alert from the Library.
🔎 Topics are collections of articles focused on a specific subject or theme. To better understand key terminology, visit the MyVable Glossary.
To help you manage your Topics more efficiently:
Search across your list to quickly find a specific Topic by name.
View which Personal Alerts each Topic has been added to by clicking the caret next to Personal Alert in the corresponding row.
Pin important Topics to your left-hand menu for quick access. Learn how here.
Remove Topics that are no longer relevant to keep your list streamlined. Learn how here.
Pinning Topics to Your Menu
To make it easier to access your most important Topics, you can pin them to your left-hand menu:
Navigate to the My Topics page
Click the ‘Pin to Menu’ toggle next to the Topic you want to pin
Once pinned, the Topic will appear in your left-hand menu—simply click its name at any time to open and view its contents.
Removing Topics from My Topics
There are two ways to remove a Topic:
From the My Topics page: Select the icon (🗑) in the Remove column on the right-hand side and confirm the action
From within a Personal Alert: Hover over the Topic in the left-hand pane, click the kebab menu (three dots), select Remove from Personal Alert, and confirm.
Note: Removing a Topic from 'My Topics' will also remove it from any Personal Alerts it’s connected to.
Working Within a Topic
Within each Topic, you can:
View the latest articles.
Run keyword searches across the content.
Add the Topic to another Personal Alert to receive email notifications for updates. For more details on Personal Alerts, see here.
💡 Top Tip: Keep your My Topics list streamlined by removing items no longer relevant to you.
My Alerts
This section contains the Shared and Personal Alerts you're subscribed to. To populate this list, subscribe to Alerts from the Library or create Personal Alerts from Topics.
🔎 Alerts are pre-set updates, typically delivered via email. To better understand key terminology, visit the MyVable Glossary.
To help you manage your Alerts more efficiently:
Search across your list to quickly find a specific Alert by name.
Pin important Alerts to your left-hand menu for quick access. Learn how here.
Subscribe to email notifications. Learn how here.
Remove Alerts that are no longer relevant to keep your list streamlined. Learn how here.
Pinning Alerts to Your Menu
Similar to My Topics, you can Pin to Menu to control which Alerts are visible in your left-hand menu. Here’s how:
Navigate to the My Alerts page
Click the ‘Pin to Menu’ toggle next to the Alert you want to pin
Once pinned, the Alert will appear in your left-hand menu—simply click its name at any time to open and view its contents.
Subscribing to Email Notifications
Control which Alerts deliver email updates directly to your inbox.
Navigate to the My Alerts page
Click the ‘Email’ toggle to turn email notifications on or off for that Alert
Once subscribed, you will receive email updates related to that Alert.
Removing Alerts from My Alerts
From the My Alerts page: Select the icon (🗑) in the Remove column on the right-hand side and confirm the action.
Note: Removing an Alert from your My Alerts will also unsubscribe you from its connected email notifications.
Working Within an Alert
Within each Alert, you can:
View the latest 50 published emails.
View and navigate to the articles included in each publication.
Pin or Unpin from your left-hand menu.
Subscribe or Unsubscribe from email notifications.
Alerts with a Latest Updates view offer additional options:
View each Topic included in the Alert.
Browse the most recent articles populating each Topic.
Toggle between the available timeframes to view updates from the ‘Past Day’ or the ‘Past Week’.
Run keyword searches across the content in each Topic.
💡 Top Tip: Keep your My Alerts list streamlined by removing items no longer relevant to you.