Organize links by role before tracking changes
| Link type | Useful for | Do not infer |
|---|---|---|
| Yupoo album | Photos, captions, codes, visible measurements, contact or source clues | Live stock, verified seller, protected checkout |
| External catalog | Category and product discovery | Original album ownership or seller verification |
| Taobao or Weidian | Marketplace seller, variants, price, and policy context | That it matches the album without item evidence |
| 1688 | Supplier, quantity, price-tier, and variant context | Direct factory status or international delivery |
| Shopping service | Its supported order, warehouse, QC, or shipping workflow | Source authenticity or universal buyer protection |
Build a simple album change log
Use one row per observation rather than one editable “latest status” cell. That preserves when a title, code, contact, source, price, visibility, or image set changed and prevents the newest note from rewriting the older context.
Minimum change-log fields
Date checked:
Original URL:
Page type:
Stable clue:
Previous observation:
Current observation:
What changed:
Evidence URL or screenshot reference:
Impact on the shortlist:
Next review trigger:
Decide when a change deserves a new row
Create a new observation when a change can affect identification, comparison, contact, price context, availability, or the next responsible step. A different cover crop may need only a note; a changed item code, source destination, contact handle, price basis, or access status deserves its own dated row.
If you cannot tell whether the page changed or simply failed to load, record the failure separately and recheck later. This keeps technical errors from being mistaken for product or seller updates.
Follow seller updates without claiming live monitoring
If an album owner publishes an authorized update channel, record that route and the date you reviewed it. Notifications, public posts, or new albums can be useful signals, but missed posts, deleted messages, changed handles, and platform delays mean the record is never guaranteed complete.
This static guide does not monitor sellers, send alerts, or promise daily updates. A manual check is a dated observation.
Search across multiple albums without merging identities
Use the same stable clue across albums, but keep every album URL, watermark, contact, code, and source in its own record. Similar photos or titles do not prove that two pages share an owner or source.
When a new result appears, compare it with the previous row before linking them. Record the evidence for the connection and leave identity unresolved if the pages disagree.
Choose an alternative by function
What a last-checked date really means
It means a particular person or process observed a particular page on that date. It does not establish that every field was checked, that the page stayed unchanged afterward, or that stock, price, seller, payment, and shipping information remain current.
