"It's not that I need all the info, because all the info is on the other tab. But I do need something that reminds me to go to the other tab if necessary — that reminds me to check things."
So this is not a feed. It is a reminder that something is coming, sized so it never competes with the board. Three items maximum, one week ahead, US high-impact only. When one lands it shows its result briefly, then drops off and the next one moves up.
All that room sitting empty.
Same box, same height. No new row. Ticker on the left, beside the selector it belongs to; the macro queue fills the dead space on the right. Click any item to open that day in the economic tab.
| state | when | what it does |
|---|---|---|
| ahead | more than 1 hour out | Grey dot, quiet. Just present. You register it without reading it. |
| soon | inside 1 hour | Dot goes orange, countdown goes orange. This is the "go look" signal. |
| due | at the release minute | Dot pulses, says now. The watcher starts polling for the number. |
| landed | the moment the actual arrives | Flips to the result — actual vs estimate and the surprise, coloured the same way the table colours it: hotter inflation red, cooler green. |
| clears | when you acknowledge it | See below — this is the bit you put your finger on. |
"Maybe keep flashing until I remove it — I click to accept that I've seen it… but I could have missed things that are upcoming because I didn't remove that too. It's a weird balance."
That tension only exists if a landed result occupies one of the three slots. So it doesn't. Landed is its own lane.
"If I click it and it opens something with a more detailed thing… I don't know exactly what we get from FMP, or if we can establish some sort of template for reading it, saving a timeline of the measurement."
Measured, not guessed. We already hold, for every major US high-impact release, its own printed history:
| release | prints on file | with an actual | span |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non Farm Payrolls | 32 | 28 | Jun 2024 → Dec 2026 |
| Inflation Rate YoY (CPI) | 31 | 24 | Jun 2024 → Dec 2026 |
| Unemployment Rate | 31 | 26 | Jun 2024 → Dec 2026 |
| Producer Price Index MoM | 31 | 25 | Jun 2024 → Dec 2026 |
| Core PCE Price Index MoM | 31 | 23 | Jun 2024 → Dec 2026 |
So the click opens a panel with the same template for every release: the headline number against its estimate and the prior; the surprise; and beneath it the last two years of that exact release — every print, actual versus estimate each time — so you can see whether this one broke the pattern or continued it. Nothing has to be built to collect that. It is already sitting in the table.
Acknowledging happens by closing that panel: you opened it, you read it, it's gone from the bar.
We know the date and the minute in advance, so we do not have to keep asking. The collector can sleep and only wake up around a known release:
Cost: about 16 extra requests per release, on roughly 8 days a month — call it 130 requests a month against the 1,400 the twice-daily job already makes. It is noise.
The honest unknown: how quickly FMP itself publishes the actual after the print. I have not measured that — it is measurable, by watching one CPI release minute by minute, and I would want to do that before promising "real fast".
You said it while we were talking about horizons, and you were right that stepping a week at a time is not a calendar. MONTH now sits beside DAY and WEEK in the economic tab — a real grid, the same colour law, the count of high-impact prints beside each date, today outlined, click any day to open it. That one is live, not a mockup: open the tab and hit MONTH.