Create your first Matrix view
What this is about
You open the Matrix, pick a view, narrow the time range, and read the result. This guide walks through the most common case: “who posted how much and when over the last few months?”
How to do it
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Open the Matrix
Click Matrix in the left-hand navigation. On the first visit you see the default view Sources over time over the last seven months — the color intensity of each cell shows how much every source posted in that month.
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Pick a view
Open the Matrix button in the top right and pick one of the nine views under View. Good starting points:
- Sources over time — sources as rows, time as columns
- Topics over time — topic tags as rows, time as columns
- Source tags and their topics — cross-tabulation of categories × topics, without a time axis
You can find an overview of all views with recommendations under Matrix views.
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Set the time range and granularity
Under Time range you pick the granularity (day, week, month, quarter) and the period. The granularity determines how many columns the Matrix has and how finely activity is resolved.
For a trend view over several months, Month is usually the right choice. For a current week-in-review, pick Day or Week.
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Pick a metric
Under Metric you decide how the color intensity is calculated:
- Row share (default) — share of the row total. Highlights where a source had its focus.
- Column share – share of the column total. Shows who contributed the most in a month or topic.
- Total share — share of the entire view. Shows where anything is happening at all.
- Count — absolute numbers. For a sober look at raw frequency.
- Compared to reference period — Δ against a reference range. Green = more, red = less.
Details on all metrics: Matrix metrics.
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Set filters (optional)
Open Filters when you want to narrow the picture:
- Inbox / Saved — which folders count. Default is Inbox only.
- Search – full-text search in titles and content.
- Source — restrict to a specific source.
- Ownership – Own sources only shows only your own sources, Exclude own only the others. With nothing ticked, all of them count.
- Source tags and Topic tags — restrict to categories or topics.
- Channel types – for example only LinkedIn company pages or only YouTube channels. The list offers the channel types that exist in your Workspace.
- Reference period – for the Compared to reference period metric. With Automatic, the period of equal length immediately before applies.
Reset filters clears all filters again.
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Read cells and open details
Hover over a cell — a tooltip shows the count and the shares of that cell. Click the cell to jump into the Unified Inbox and see the Updates that belong to that row and column.
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Expand rows (in hierarchical views)
Views such as Sources and channels over time or Sources (grouped by categories) over time have subgroups. Click the triangle in front of a row name to expand or collapse the child rows.
Result
You now have a Matrix that shows how activity across your tracked sources is spread over the chosen period. Saturated cells mark heavy activity, pale areas quiet. Clicking a cell takes you back to the Inbox — with the matching filter for the context.