Email & Notifications

Email preferences (/settings?tab=notifications) control the WaypointCareer digest — the weekly or monthly summary of your progress, pending reading, and any platform announcements. Transactional emails (welcome, password reset, account notices) always send and aren't gated by this preference.

TL;DR — Pick your digest cadence: Weekly (default), Monthly, or Off. Change it any time, or use the one-click unsubscribe link at the bottom of any digest.

What gets emailed

Three categories of email go out from WaypointCareer:

  1. Welcome email — sent once, when you sign up. Contains three first-step deep links: set a goal, run a self-evaluation, add a reading item.
  2. Newsletter digest — sent on your chosen cadence. Includes:
    • Progress since the last digest — goal hit-rate, self-evaluation changes.
    • Pending reading — the top two articles and top two videos in your reading list that are still in progress or queued (status = Reading or Want to Read).
    • Platform announcements — anything the WaypointCareer team is rolling out (new features, scheduled maintenance, etc.).
  3. Transactional — password resets, account notices. Always delivered.

Change your cadence

  1. Open /settings → Notifications.
  2. Pick Weekly, Monthly, or Off under "Newsletter digest."
  3. The change saves immediately.

The page also shows when your last digest was sent.

Unsubscribe with one click

Every digest email includes a one-click unsubscribe link in the footer (RFC 8058 — also accessible from your mail client's native "Unsubscribe" button). Clicking it sets your frequency to Off. You can re-subscribe any time from /settings → Notifications.

Unsubscribing from the digest doesn't affect transactional email — you still get password resets and account notices.

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