Daily Brief Email

The Daily Brief is a single email Groupthink sends in the evening so you can prep for tomorrow and review today in one place. It pulls together prep for the people you are meeting with tomorrow and short recaps of the meetings Groupthink helped you capture today. Instead of separate emails landing throughout the day, everything arrives in one predictable touchpoint.

Heads up: Prep for the people you are meeting with tomorrow requires an active trial or paid plan. Without one, the brief still arrives with your meeting titles and times, but the per-person prep is replaced by an upgrade prompt.

What is in the Daily Brief

A Daily Brief can contain two sections, depending on what is on your calendar and what Groupthink captured that day.

Tomorrow's Interactions

For each meeting on tomorrow's calendar that has someone to prep for, you get a prep card per attendee. Depending on what Groupthink knows about that person, a card can include:

• Their name, plus role and company when available
• When you last met
• A quick tip for the conversation
• Their communication style
• A summary of your past interactions
• Your own notes and recent details
• Open threads to follow up on
• Facts from the web for people you are meeting for the first time, each with a link to its source (paused for now, see Facts From the Web)

Cards fill in what is known and leave out what is not, so a long-standing contact shows more than a first-time introduction. This is the same prep you see on each meeting's agenda. See Meeting Prep Cards for the in-app view.

Today's Interaction Recaps

A short summary of each meeting Groupthink helped you capture today, with a link to open the full recap. This section appears whether or not you have a paid plan.

Facts From the Web

Note: Facts from the web are paused for now, so prep cards and the Daily Brief don't include them at the moment. Everything else in your prep works as usual. The rest of this section describes how they work when they are on.

When you are meeting someone for the first time and Groupthink has no history with them yet, their prep card can include a 🌐 From the web section. It lists public facts Groupthink found about that person, and each fact comes with a link to the page it came from, so you can click through and check it yourself before you rely on it.

Groupthink checks each fact against the page it came from before showing it. Web facts appear only for first-time contacts (once you have history with someone, the card uses that instead) and only on an active trial or paid plan.

In the app, the same facts on Today and on a meeting's agenda page also show a short line explaining why the source supports the fact. See Meeting Prep in Your Daily Brief.

When the Daily Brief Sends

The Daily Brief sends once per day at 5pm in the timezone set on your Groupthink account (the same one in your availability settings), on weekdays only (Monday through Friday). It is not sent on weekends.

You will receive it on a given weekday as long as you have at least one of the following:

• A meeting with attendees on tomorrow's calendar
• A meeting Groupthink recorded today

If you have neither, no brief is sent that day.

The email's subject line reads Your Daily Overview for followed by tomorrow's date, for example "Your Daily Overview for Tuesday, September 29".

The 5pm time is fixed. If you would rather get an email in the morning at a time you pick, turn on the Daily Page email described below.

The Daily Page Email: Your Day, in the Morning

The Daily Page is a separate, optional email. It is your Today page sent to your inbox each morning: today's meetings with prep for the people in them, things worth raising today, meetings you still need to capture notes for, what you owe people, open threads, who is worth reconnecting with, and dates coming up. Its subject line reads Your day: followed by today's date.

It is off until you turn it on, and you choose when it arrives.

Turning it on and choosing a time

1. Open User Settings > Notifications
2. Find the Daily Page row in the Notify when... table
3. Turn on its Email switch
4. A time picker appears under the row. Pick the hour you want, from 12:00 AM to 11:00 PM. It starts at 6:00 AM.

The picker shows Saved once your choice is stored. It only appears while the email is on, because the time does nothing if the email is off.

On iPhone, the same switch and the same time are in the Settings tab under Notifications. See Settings on iPhone.

When it sends

• Once a day, at the start of the hour you picked, in the timezone set on your Groupthink account (the same one in your availability settings). It stays at that hour when the clocks change for daylight saving.
• Every day, weekends included. There is no weekday-only option.
• If there is nothing on your day (no meetings, nothing you owe, no notes to capture, nobody to reconnect with), it is not sent.

Changing the time only changes the email. The Today page in the app is always there, whatever time you pick.

You can have both emails on: the Daily Page in the morning for today, and the Daily Brief at 5pm to prep for tomorrow.

Finding the Daily Brief in the App

A shorter version of the prep in the email lives in the app under Today in the left navigation, which opens your day view. You do not have to wait for the evening email to see what is coming up. You can also use the ‹ › arrows at the top of the page to look ahead at tomorrow, or back at a day that already happened.

There is no longer a separate Daily Brief entry in the sidebar, and the old /intelligence address now sends you to Today. Bookmarks still work; they just land here. For a full tour of the page, see Today.

Turning the Daily Brief On or Off

Email delivery is controlled from your notification settings:

1. Open User Settings > Notifications
2. Find the Daily Overview row in the Notify when... table. It has the same name as the email's subject line, and it controls the 5pm Daily Brief email.
3. Toggle the Email channel off to stop receiving it (or on to resume)

The 5pm send time cannot be changed. For a morning email at a time you choose, use the Daily Page row instead (see The Daily Page Email).

Frequently Asked Questions

I used to get a separate prep email before each meeting. Did something break?

No. Those per-meeting emails were consolidated into the Daily Brief. Your prep now arrives in one evening email the day before, instead of separately ahead of each meeting.

Why does my brief say to upgrade instead of showing prep?

Per-person prep for tomorrow's meetings is part of a paid plan. If your trial has ended and you do not have an active subscription, the brief still lists your meetings but shows an Upgrade to see prep button in place of the prep cards. Today's recaps are not affected.

Can I still see prep in the app?

Yes. Prep cards are available on each meeting's agenda before it starts. See Meeting Prep Cards for details.

Can I change what time the Daily Brief arrives?

Not the 5pm Daily Brief. What you can do is turn on the Daily Page email, which you can schedule for any hour of the day. See The Daily Page Email.

Where do the facts from the web come from?

From public web pages Groupthink found about a first-time contact. Every fact shows a link to its source, so you can open it and check. Web facts are paused for now. See Facts From the Web.

I did not get a brief today. Why not?

The most common reasons: it was a weekend, you had no meetings with attendees tomorrow and nothing recorded today, or email delivery is turned off in your notification settings.

Getting Help

Questions about the Daily Brief? Email support@groupthink.com.