Notifications and the evening mail

Two channels for the same information: the bell, which says everything right away inside the screen, and the evening mail, a summary by e-mail once a day.

The bell

The Notifications button (a bell, at the top of every screen) carries a badge with the number of unread notifications — "Notifications (1)". With nothing new, it opens on: "Nothing new: invitations, replies, and moved milestones show up here." With something new, each line says who did what, on which schedule, and how long ago ("Anne replied under Foundations · Rénovation Atelier · just now"); the Mark all read button clears the badge without reopening each line.

Three families observed, as the screen itself announces them: invitations (someone invited you, or joined a schedule you own), replies (to a comment you posted), and moved milestones (an icon moved by another member or by a link's propagation).

The evening mail

Set from Settings › Preferences › Notifications, Evening email section: a checkbox, "The evening mail: a daily summary of what concerns you", checked by default. The text under the checkbox is explicit: "Sent at 6 PM, on days when something has been waiting for you for more than an hour — if the server has SMTP mail configured. The bell, on the other hand, says everything, right away."

Two conditions have to both hold, then, for you to receive this mail: having left it checked, and the instance having an SMTP server configured (a self-hosted instance with no SMTP will never send it — the bell stays the only reliable channel). The message groups notifications by schedule ("n new item(s) on name:"), one line per notification with a direct link, and ends with a reminder of how to stop it (a link to Preferences).

What happens when you get it wrong

• The evening mail is cluttering your inbox: uncheck the box in Preferences — the bell keeps saying everything, without waiting for the evening.
• A notification read by mistake: reopening the screen doesn't bring it back — it's not a gesture that undoes, but it stays readable in the relevant schedule's History (see History and Compare).

What this page doesn't cover

• Changing your e-mail or your password: see Account and data.
• Inviting someone, which triggers an invitation notification: see Sharing and roles.
• Commenting and replying, the source of reply notifications: see Comment threads.