Last verified: September 20, 2026
What You Can Now Do
Context Memo now sends daily page digests as fully formatted HTML emails with branded styling, tables, and preheader text instead of plain text or basic formatting. The digest arrives as a complete HTML document: table layouts for the page data, your site fonts and colors, and a preheader line that shows in the inbox preview before anyone opens it. The practical change is who you can send it to. A digest that reads like a system notification stays with the person who set it up. A digest that reads like a report can go straight to a VP of marketing, a client, or a weekly standup without anyone reformatting it first.
Where It Is in Context Memo
There's no new screen for this. The change applies to the daily pages email digest itself, so you'll see it in your inbox on the next scheduled send. Recipients and scheduling continue to live with your daily pages notification settings.
How to Use It
- Open your daily pages notification settings and review the recipient list. Anyone who was cut from that list because the email looked unfinished is worth adding back now.
- Wait for the next scheduled send, or trigger a digest, then open it in the client your stakeholders actually use. Page data renders in table layout rather than as a run of text lines.
- Look at the inbox list view before you open the message. The preheader text sits next to the subject line, so recipients can see what changed without clicking.
- Check the digest against your site. Fonts and colors pull from your site styling, so if the email looks off-brand, the fix is in your site settings rather than in the email.
- Forward one digest to a stakeholder outside the platform. This is the test that matters: if it lands as a readable report with no explanation attached, the digest is doing the reporting work for you.
Why We Built It
Customers told us the daily page emails carried the right information and looked wrong carrying it. Plain or minimally formatted messages got filtered, skimmed, or quietly ignored, which meant the person who needed to see a new page go live found out days later in a meeting. Daily page emails now look professional and on-brand instead of arriving as plain or minimally formatted messages. The cost before was not data loss. It was distribution: a report nobody would forward is a report with one reader.
What It Does Not Do Yet
This release covers the daily pages digest. Other notification emails keep their existing formatting, so don't assume a single change across every message type until you've checked each one.
Styling is derived from your site fonts and colors rather than edited in a template builder. That keeps the digest consistent with what you publish and removes a maintenance step, but it also means you can't design the email independently of your site. If you need a different visual treatment for a specific audience, the working approach is to adjust the underlying site styling or export the page data and present it in your own deck.
Email clients also remain email clients. Some strip remote styling by default, and a table-based layout renders more predictably in those conditions than free-form markup, but we can't guarantee pixel consistency across every reader configuration. Test in the one your executives use and set expectations from there.