# Digest Step Upgrades: Create Beautiful Summaries in Minutes

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Last updated: 2025-05-06T14:33:54.684Z

Published: 2025-05-06T14:33:54.684Z

We’ve reimagined how you build and present digested notifications—saving time, reducing complexity, and making templates look great out of the box.

This release introduces powerful new features that let you effortlessly summarize events, with ready-made summaries, visual tools, and editor enhancements.

## Why This Matters

- Digest notifications used to be _painfully manual_. Developers had to:

- Write custom loops for every channel

- Handle pluralization, list formatting, and grammar by hand

- Repeat code across email, in-app, and chat

- Build complex HTML for emails

- Maintain state (e.g., list limits, summaries) themselves

All of this made digest creation slow, error-prone, and hard to maintain.

**Now?** You can build a polished digest in minutes, without touching LiquidJS or duplicating logic.

> [!NOTE] Note
>
> Digest-specific variables and helpers are only available in steps that follow the Digest Step.

## At-a-Glance: What’s New

- `countSummary`**,** `sentenceSummar`
Quickly generate concise, one-line digests without the need for additional logic.

- `eventCount`**,** `events`
Directly access and work with summarized event data for streamlined analysis.

- **Digest Block**
Render visual digests effortlessly, eliminating the need to write LiquidJS code.

- **Card Blocks**
Achieve clean and consistent layouts without any coding required.

- **LiquidJS Filter Pills**
Easily view variable formatting at a glance—now available in all emails.

## Summary Helpers

### Count summary

Skip the logic - `countSummary` auto-generates the correct phrasing.

```
You have {{steps.digest-step.countSummary}} available.

Examples:
- With 1 event → You have 1 notification available.
- With 3 events → You have 3 notifications available.
```

This is “syntactic sugar” for templating—under the hood, it uses `eventCount` formatting filters.

### `sentenceSummary`

Creates natural language lists from the event data.

```
{{steps.digest-step.sentenceSummary path="payload.name" limit=2 suffix="collaborators"}} commented on your post.

Result:
- With Alex, Jordan, and 3 others → “Alex, Jordan, and 3 collaborators commented.”
```

Customization Options:

- `path`: Which field to extract (e.g., `payload.name`)

- `limit`: Max names before grouping

- `suffix`: Label for grouped names (e.g., “others”, “collaborators”, “team members”)

## Visual Digest Components

### Digest Block (Email Editor)

Stop looping manually.

The new **Digest Block** in the email editor:

- Automatically loops through `steps.digest-step.events`

- Uses `current` to reference each item

- Requires no Liquid code

> [!NOTE] Note
>
> Built-in logic handles iteration, list rendering, and structure.

When looping in the Digest Block or a Repeat Block, use the `current` variable:

```
{{current.payload.message}}
```

### Card Blocks: Prebuilt, Polished

New digest-ready **Card Blocks** offer:

- Clean layouts

- Visual consistency across digests

- Designed specifically for list-like events

Skip HTML headaches—just pick a block and go.

### Raw Access: Structured Variables

### `steps.digest-step.eventCount`

Access the number of collected events.

```
You have {{steps.digest-step.eventCount | pluralize: "new comment", "new comments"}}.

Results:
1 → “You have 1 new comment.”
3 → “You have 3 new comments.”
```

### `steps.digest-step.events`

Full access to the digested event array.

> [!NOTE] Note
>
> `for loops` aren’t supported in LiquidJS—use the Repeat Block in the Email Editor.

## Editor Enhancements

### LiquidJS Filter Pills (Now Everywhere)

Every variable now shows its first LiquidJS filter visually:

- Quickly scan for formatting

- Easier debugging

- Reduces mistakes

> [!NOTE] Note
>
> This isn’t limited to digests—it’s available for all emails, including newsletters and announcements.