Daily digest emails

Each user can opt to receive once a day by email a digest of the activity of the previous 24 hours from the communities and colleagues that they follow, and also from his or her self.

An example of the top portion of such an email

The events shown in the digest email can be either listed chronologically, or grouped by community in which they appeared and by the colleague that posted them.

The above picture demonstrates the latter way to organize them, with events from the community “API and Branding” appearing under a header with the title and logo of that community. Each user can choose in which of these two ways their digest email is organized.

Users can also customize the contents so that, instead of pulling in the activities of all the communities and colleagues that they follow, only the activities of some of these are gathered for inclusion in the digest email.

Doing so does not prevent all the activities of their not included colleagues and communities from appearing; some may still appear because some other community or colleague was involved. If the group-by- colleague/community format is used, the “not included” colleagues and communities won’t have their own group heading within the digest, while the included ones will.

Users can also optionally include their own activities in the digest email. If the group-by-colleague/community format is used, these appear in their own section at the bottom of the email, titled My Activities.

Users can also optionally exclude either or both of the other two sections, Community Activity (which contains the activities that are organized under individual community headers) and Colleague Activity (which contains the activities that are organized under individual colleague headers).

In addition to the being able to configure the contents and organization of the email, users can configure the approximate time of day at which they’ll receive the email. Details on how to configure all these options are in the next section.

A digest email is not displayed the same activity more than once. This important to note when using the group- by-colleague/community format, because it means that an activity that you would expect to appear under the header for the colleague that posted it actually does not appear there, because it appears somewhere else in the same email.