Email & Notifications

Email preferences (/settings?tab=notifications) control two digest channels — the newsletter (weekly/monthly progress + reading summary) and the job-search pulse (daily/weekly search digest). Transactional emails (welcome, password reset, account notices) always send and aren't gated by these preferences.

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).
    • News for you — up to five recent headlines from Indicators → News that you haven't read or dismissed. On by default; turn it off with the News for you switch.
    • Platform announcements — anything the WaypointCareer team is rolling out (new features, scheduled maintenance, etc.).
  3. Job-search pulse — sent daily (paid plans) or weekly (all plans). Includes new matches, application deadlines in the next 7 days, upcoming interviews, and goals behind pace. Paid plans see richer detail per section; Directorship+ adds a stale search-engagement reminder.
  4. 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.
  4. Optionally, turn News for you off to leave headlines out of the digest. It's greyed out while the digest is Off.

The page also shows when your last digest was sent.

The job-search pulse

The pulse is a separate cadence from the newsletter:

  1. Open /settings → Notifications.
  2. Under "Job-search pulse" pick Daily, Weekly, or Off.
  3. Daily requires any paid plan — on Free it's shown but locked. If your plan lapses while Daily is saved, the pulse quietly sends weekly until you renew; your saved choice is kept.

Pulses with nothing to report are skipped — you never get a blank email.

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.

Unsubscribe links are per-channel: a link in a pulse email turns off only the pulse; a link in a newsletter turns off only the newsletter.

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