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I want to create a monthly newsletter for our Forge course. I have built the template on the newsletter area but have used the "customize pages" area and have just realised that this affects ALL my newsletters so I can't save each one as a distinct thing. Can anyone advise me how to do this? I basically want these newsletters be designed with the functionality and design options available in a landing page - so similar structure but different content - and accessible behind a paywall.
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There's a specific moment every freelancer knows: blank editor, client deadline, no template to start from.
Stripo covers the full path from an empty canvas to an exported, tested, client-ready email. 26 steps sounds like a lot. In practice, most of them take under a minute once you know where they are.
Here's the short version of the workflow:
Set your General Styles first (fonts, colors, spacing, button styles). Everything you add after this inherits those rules automatically. No more fixing inconsistencies stripe by stripe.
Build your structure. Header with logo and menu, content stripes for your body, footer with socials and unsubscribe. Drag-n-drop or code, your choice.
Fill it in. Text, images, banners, buttons, product cards, countdown timers, video. Each one is a block you drag into place.
Personalize. Merge tags, Display Conditions for showing different content to different segments, all inside the same template.
Test before you send. Preview on desktop and mobile, run accessibility checks, verify dark mode rendering. This is where most freelancers skip steps and most client complaints come from.
Collaborate. Share a review link with the client, collect comments inside the editor, get approval without a single screenshot or email chain.
Export. One click to 90+ ESPs. Mailchimp, HubSpot, Klaviyo, Gmail, Outlook, whatever the client uses.
Save what you built. Headers, footers, product cards, entire sections. Save them as modules, reuse across every future project.
The full walkthrough with screenshots for every step: https://stripo.email/blog/how-to-build-an-email-with-stripo-manual-a-to-z/
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I feel confident having my editable template base designed in Stripo ready to export. It was an exciting experience.
I do have one reservation or rather an fear that has prevented me from proceeding with the export.
When designs are exported to platforms with more rigid design...
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One Shot Campaign Emails using Paper and Resend
I've been building websites and digital products for years. And one thing that never got easier? Creating email templates.
Here's what the old process looked like:
→ Design in Figma (or wherever) → Export every image manually
→ Upload to S3/R2/wherever — remembering the folder structure, the naming conventions
→ Copy public URLs back into code
→ Write the HTML by hand, or fight an email builder
→ Load Google Fonts correctly (or watch them break in Outlook)
→ Test it. Fix it. Test it again. Cry.
→ See your therapist. Cry.
→ Finally get it into your ESP
That's not a workflow. That's a tax on creativity.
So I built something different using Paper's connected canvas.
The new flow:
1. Design the email inside Paper — layout, content, images, all of it
2. Cursor reads the design through the Paper MCP
3. Images are automatically pushed to a Cloudflare R2 bucket via the Cloudflare MCP
4. The Resend template is created via the Resend MCP — Google Fonts loaded, inline styles correct, pixel-perfect to the design
5. Done.
One canvas. Three MCPs. Zero manual handoffs.
This is what I think "agentic design" actually means — not AI generating something from a vague prompt, but a connected canvas where your tools talk to each other and the heavy lifting just... disappears.
Huge thanks to the Paper team for building the infrastructure that makes this possible. Excited to see where this goes.
Full walkthrough in the video below.
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