Last verified: October 7, 2026
What You Can Now Do
Context Memo now lets you choose how navigation pages appear in your dashboard: rows, tabs, or both. Open your navigation settings and you'll see display mode controls on the navigation layout card, along with a sidebar that reflects whatever you pick. If your team runs a small set of memos and scans, tabs keep everything on one horizontal line. If you manage dozens of pages across multiple brands or personas, rows give you a vertical list you can actually read. The decision this changes is a small one you make once: how your team navigates the workspace day to day, instead of adapting to a single fixed presentation someone else chose.
Where It Is in Context Memo
The controls live in the navigation settings card inside your dashboard settings. On that screen you now see the display mode options (rows, tabs, both) alongside the existing page configuration. Selections apply to the dashboard sidebar and the navigation bar, so what you set here is what your workspace renders.
How to Use It
- Go to your dashboard settings and open the navigation settings card. The display mode control appears at the top of the card.
- Select Rows to render navigation pages as a vertical list in the sidebar. Use this when you have more pages than fit comfortably across a single horizontal strip.
- Select Tabs to render pages as horizontal tabs in the navigation bar. This reclaims sidebar width, which helps on screens where you're reading long memo drafts or wide scan tables.
- Select Both to show pages in the sidebar and the navigation bar at the same time. Teams with split workflows (one person in scans, another in memo publishing) tend to prefer this, since the same pages are reachable from either position.
- Save the setting. The sidebar and navigation bar re-render immediately, so you can confirm the layout before you leave the screen.
- If the layout doesn't fit how your team works, return to the same card and switch modes. There is no migration step and nothing about your pages, memos, or scan history changes when you do.
Why We Built It
Customers told us the navigation was locked into a single fixed presentation that didn't match how they worked. A solo marketer running one brand and a midmarket team running nine model scans across several product lines were looking at the same layout, and one of them was always fighting it: too much vertical scrolling, or too many tabs crowded into a row. The cost was friction in the place people spend the most time, the dashboard they open to check citations, review memo drafts, and act on gaps. Layout should follow the workflow, not the other way around.
What It Does Not Do Yet
This release covers display mode for navigation pages. A few limits are worth stating plainly:
- The setting applies at the workspace level, not per user. If different members of your team want different layouts, you'll need to agree on one mode for now.
- You cannot reorder or group pages from this control. Display mode changes how pages are presented, not their sequence or hierarchy.
- There is no per-device or responsive override. If your team splits time between a wide desktop monitor and a laptop, pick the mode that works for the narrower screen.
Nothing here touches scan coverage, citation tracking, or memo publishing. It changes the surface you work on, not the work itself.