Last verified: September 30, 2026
What You Can Now Do
Context Memo's bar chart widget now lets you add an icon beneath each bar in a bar chart, so you can visually reinforce the category or metric each bar represents. On a landing page comparing share of voice across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, the model name no longer has to carry the whole label. The icon does part of the work. The practical change: when you build a chart for a stakeholder who will look at it for four seconds, you can stop compressing labels into abbreviations and stop adding a legend below the chart to explain what the abbreviations mean.
Where It Is in Context Memo
The icon option lives in the landing page builder, inside the bar chart widget settings. Select the widget on your page, open its configuration, and you'll see an icon field attached to each bar alongside the existing label and value fields. Charts you've already published are unaffected until you set an icon.
How to Use It
- Open the landing page you want to edit in the landing page builder and select an existing bar chart widget, or add a new one.
- Open the widget's settings panel. Each bar in the chart appears as its own row with its label and value.
- Assign an icon to a bar row. The icon renders directly beneath that bar's text label in the live preview, so you can confirm the pairing before you save.
- Repeat for each bar you want marked. Bars without an assigned icon keep their text-only label, so partial icon sets are allowed if you only want to flag two of six categories.
- Check the preview at the width your audience will actually use. Icon-plus-label takes more vertical space under the axis than a label alone, and charts with long category names are where that shows up first.
- Save and publish the page. The chart renders with icons on your own domain, same as the rest of your memo and landing page content.
Why We Built It
Charts on a landing page get scanned, not studied. Customers told us their bar charts were harder to read than they needed to be: the data was right, but a reader had to parse text labels one at a time to work out which bar was which category. Pairing each label with a relevant icon makes the chart easier to scan, rather than relying on text alone. Before this, the workaround was either shortening labels until they became cryptic or adding explanatory copy underneath, which pushed the actual number further down the page and cost you the one thing the chart was there to deliver.
This matters more than chart formatting usually would. The pages you build in Context Memo are doing two jobs at once: convincing a human buyer and feeding a structured, crawlable source of truth to AI models. A chart that a person misreads in four seconds is a chart that gets skipped, and a skipped chart is proof you published but nobody used.
What It Does Not Do Yet
The icon is a label enhancement, not a data field. A few things to know before you build around it:
- Icons are assigned per bar, manually. There's no rule that maps a category name to an icon automatically, so if you regenerate a chart with new categories, you'll set the icons again.
- The icon sits under the text label, not in place of it. You can't run an icon-only axis. The label stays.
- This applies to the bar chart widget. Other widget types in the landing page builder are not in scope for this change.
One layout note worth testing rather than assuming: charts with many bars and long category names are where the added vertical space under the axis becomes visible. Preview before you publish, and if the axis gets crowded, reduce the number of bars rather than shortening the labels back down. The label is what the reader reads.