Configurable digest

#discuss #features #request #email

To make Forem more useful for team collaboration, it would be great if we could set up a configurable daily digest to make it easier to catch up.

Mandatory (IMHO) configuration options:

The time it gets sent. For example, I'd like to receive the email at 8 AM Monday to Friday to catch up with what I missed before starting to code.
What gets sent. All new posts, only new posts by users I follow, comments on my posts, etc.

Stretch goals:

A way to pause these emails for a certain amount of days (e.g. during holidays) without losing any settings.
Having this also available as a page on the site, to keep it out of email. E.g. forem.dev/username/digest would always show the same content as the last sent email would.

What do you think?

Top comments (6)

Preet Singh #5to9Conf • Aug 11 '20

Love the idea! Some more ideas:

Welcoming/announcing new members in the same would be amazing.
Ability to edit and include some special callouts: be it an upcoming event or sponsor message
Ability to export as html that can then be fed into an already setup email service provider (e.g. mailerlite etc)

Love the idea of having them on the website too!

Michael Kohl • Aug 11 '20

Thanks for the feedback!

Some of the things you mentioned seem like better use cases for improving our existing newsletters, my proposal was more concerned with specific smaller Forems that are used for collaboration. But one does certainly not exclude the other 😀