How can I add curated content to my newsletter?

The Curations block places content from your Curations library into your newsletter — reliably and, if you like, automatically. It only retrieves articles that have already been curated into Letterhead, which you can do with the Chrome Extension, the Curations interface, automated feeds, or Zapier/API.

Add the Curations block

1. From Emails, start from scratch or open an existing template/draft.
2. Drag the Curations block from the Dynamic content section of the block panel into your newsletter.
3. Click the block to open its settings:
   • Search — keywords to match curated articles.
   • Source and Tags — filter which curations are eligible.
   • Date curated — limit to a recent window (e.g., the last seven days).
   • Number of items — how many curations to pull in.
   • Skip — skip past curations you don’t want.
4. Click Load. Matching articles appear in the block right away. If nothing matches your criteria, an error message appears — adjust your search and click Load again.

Style the loaded content

Once articles load you can:

• change the layout of the curation(s);
• adjust Display options based on the data available from your source (title, excerpt, date, source, author);
• keep the original Image ratio or crop it for better display;
• style the Border (affects the block’s appearance, not its content), Color of background and text, Font, and Padding.

Using curations in automation templates

To have an automation assemble curated content for you, build the Curations block into a template:

1. Curate articles ahead of time — the block only pulls from what’s already in your library.
2. In Emails → Templates, start from scratch or open a template. Active templates must be deactivated before editing.
3. Add and configure the Curations block as above, with one difference: under Show items added in the past, avoid the default Use exact dates option — it only pulls stories curated on one specific date. Pick a rolling window instead.
4. Click Preview and schedule to review, then activate the template.
5. Set up your automation to send the template — see automation triggers.

Notes for automations: there’s no Load button in templates — content loads on the automation’s schedule, usually about an hour before send time. If no article matches, the block simply doesn’t render (including in preview), so the newsletter sends without that section.

Deciding between blocks? See One content block for your library, feeds, and links. For everything else, see Working in Emails.