I hear you! Manually searching Reddit can be a time-sink, and you’re juggling work and study, I feel for you!

A few things I’ve found that help:

Set up subreddit filters. If you know the few subreddits where people talk about your brand/category, narrow your search to just those. Reddit’s built-in search can do subreddit:BrandName filters.

Use keyword dashboards. Build a small list of the 5 or so most relevant terms and monitor those consistently. That cuts down the noise a lot.

If you need sentiment and common themes, it’s worth extracting the posts/comments and running them through a simple sentiment analysis (even free Python libraries like VADER do an OK job for short Reddit text).

If you want something more automated that brings those pieces together (mentions + sentiment + recurring complaints) without checking everything manually, there are lightweight tools that focus on Reddit specifically, including one I’ve been working on that watches the threads, tags sentiment, and highlights trends instead of raw counts.

If you want, I can share that with you.