Creation-Ready Emails
A video lecture, a podcast, or a deep research report takes minutes, not seconds. You are not meant to sit and watch it. Background tasks keep running after you close the tab, and when one finishes, Scholarly emails you if When a creation is ready is enabled in Settings → Notifications.
The email is not just a notification. It previews what was made, so you can tell from your inbox whether the result is what you wanted, or whether it needs another pass, before you open anything.
When You Get One
With ready emails enabled, an email is sent when a long-running creation finishes successfully. That covers the creators that run on their own:
- Deep Research reports
- Video lectures
- Podcasts
- Slide decks and story books
- Flashcard decks and quizzes
- Study guides, cheat sheets, worksheets, and rubrics
- Essays, reports, outlines, lesson plans, SOPs, timelines, flowcharts, and case studies
- Spreadsheets, mind maps, and infographics
- Transcripts and text-to-speech narrations
You do not get an email for:
- Short, immediate work, an AI Chat reply, a page autocomplete, an image generated inside chat
- Processing an uploaded PDF
- Transcribing a meeting recording
If a creation fails, the item keeps its failed row on Home with the reason and a fix. You may also receive a failure email explaining what happened and how reserved credits were settled. See When a Creation Fails.
What's in the Email
Every email opens the finished item in one click. What sits above that link depends on what you made:
| What you made | What the email shows |
|---|---|
| Deep Research | The TL;DR, how confident the report is in its own answer, and the files it produced alongside the report |
| Video lecture | The video's poster frame, with timestamped chapters so you can see how the lesson is structured |
| Podcast | The episode cover and its timestamped chapters |
| Slides and story books | The first pages, as they will look |
| Flashcards and quizzes | A few real cards from the set, quiz answers stay hidden so the preview doesn't spoil the quiz |
| Essays and long documents | How the piece opens, plus its outline |
| Files, transcripts, and narrations | A link to open the finished item and its available export options |
A preview is a convenience, not a gate. If one can't be built in time, the email still arrives with the link, you just don't get the thumbnail.
Your previews stay private
Ready emails can contain a personal sign-in link that opens the finished item without another login. It is single use and expires after 24 hours. Keep the email to yourself: forwarding a personal sign-in link can give someone access as you while that link remains valid. To send the work to another person, use Share on the item and choose its audience. See Sharing.
Turning Them Off
One toggle controls all of them:
- Open Settings.
- Go to Notifications.
- Turn off When a creation is ready.
That switch covers every creator in the list above. Turning it off does not change anything about how creations run, they still finish in the background, and Home still shows them when they do.
Product & marketing emails is a separate toggle, and turning one off never affects the other. Account-essential mail, sign-in links, password resets, billing and renewal notices, team invites, is not covered by either toggle, because you need it to use your account.
Language
Emails follow your app language, not your AI language. If your interface is in Japanese, your ready emails arrive in Japanese even for an English report. Ready emails support the same interface languages as the app. Use Settings → Appearance to see the current list. The generated preview itself can still contain the language of the work you created. See Languages in Scholarly.
If an Email Doesn't Arrive
- Check the item finished. Open Home, a creation still running shows its progress, and a failed one shows its reason. A ready email is sent only after success; a failed task may send a separate failure notice.
- Check the toggle. Settings → Notifications → When a creation is ready.
- Check spam and promotions. If you find it there, mark it as "not spam" to help your email provider recognise later messages.
- Check the address on the account. Settings → My Account shows the address mail is sent to. Contact support if that address needs to change.
- Still nothing? Tell us, include what you made and roughly when.
Email is a convenience, never the only route to your work. Everything you create is in your library whether the email arrives or not.
Related
- Background Tasks, why you can close the tab while a creation runs.
- Creation Progress, following a creation while it is still working.
- When a Creation Fails, what a failure says and how to recover it.
- Settings, the Notifications section and every other account preference.
- Languages in Scholarly, which language emails arrive in.