Last verified: October 7, 2026
What You Can Now Do
Context Memo's dashboard sidebar now lets you open and close sections independently, and adds a new Scans row grouped with your Brand tabs in the Context section. Before this, expanding one section could collapse the context you were working in, so the sidebar fought you every time you moved between a memo draft and the scan results that justified it. Now the sidebar holds the shape you give it. Keep Context open while you work through Scans, collapse everything you aren't using, and leave the panel configured the way your workflow actually runs. The practical change: checking how the models answered a prompt is no longer a detour. It's one click from wherever you already are.
Where It Is in Context Memo
Look at the left-hand sidebar of the dashboard. Under the Context section, Scans now sits alongside your Brand tabs rather than behind a separate menu level. Each sidebar section header is independently clickable, so expanding Context no longer forces other sections closed. The grouping reflects how the data relates: your brand context and the scans that test it belong in the same place.
How to Use It
- Open the dashboard and click the Context section header in the sidebar. The section expands and stays expanded, with your Brand tabs and the Scans row visible together.
- Click any other section header. It opens without collapsing Context, so you can hold two areas of the product open at once.
- Click Scans from the Context group. You land directly on your scan results without passing through an intermediate menu.
- Collapse the sections you don't use. The sidebar narrows to the areas you work in, which matters most on laptop screens where vertical space is tight.
- Move between a Brand tab and Scans while reviewing a memo. Compare how the models currently describe your brand against the positioning you've documented, without losing your place in either.
Why We Built It
Customers told us the sidebar made them re-navigate to get back to where they already were. Checking a scan meant drilling through multiple menu levels, and returning meant rebuilding the view. That cost was small per click and large per session: the people doing this work check scans constantly, because scan results are what tell you which prompts to act on and which memos to write next. When the navigation adds friction to that loop, the loop runs less often. Fewer scan checks means slower detection of a misrepresentation, and misrepresentations cost deals you never see.
What It Does Not Do Yet
Sidebar state is a navigation convenience, not a saved workspace. The sidebar does not yet remember a per-user default layout across sessions or devices, so if you want a specific configuration every time, you'll set it at the start of a session. Section ordering is also fixed: you can control what's open, not what sits where. If you need a persistent entry point to a specific scan or brand view, bookmark the URL directly.