Notifications
Notifications at a glance
Where Notifications lives, its four boxes, and how to read a notification.
Step 1
Open Notifications
Notifications sits near the bottom of the left rail, between How To and Usage. On the narrow icon rail it is called Alerts. The number on it counts the notifications you have not seen yet.
- How To
- Notifications3
- Usage
Step 2
Five boxes
The switch at the top picks a box. Documents is access to documents and folders. Chats & hubs is invites, mentions, replies and hub membership. General is groups, roles and persona notices. Sent is what you did for someone else. Updates holds the release notes. On a phone the tabs wrap onto two lines.
Notifications
Access to your documents, your chats and hubs, groups and roles, what you shared, and Secretary updates
Sarah Cole shared the folder "Reports" with you
5m ago
Jordan Reed removed your access to the folder "Payroll"
2h ago
Sam Lee shared the document "Q3 forecast.xlsx" with you
1d ago
Step 3
Reading a notification
The icon on the left tells you what it is about: a folder, document, group, role, hub or chat. The sentence says who did what, and the line under it says when. Newest notifications are at the top.
Sarah Cole shared the folder "Reports" with you
5m ago
Jordan Reed removed your access to the folder "Payroll"
2h ago
Sam Lee shared the document "Q3 forecast.xlsx" with you
1d ago
Step 4
Go straight there
Press a notification to open what it is about: the folder in Documents, the document itself, the hub, or the Team thread you were mentioned in. Invites are answered on the row instead, with Accept and Decline.
Sarah Cole shared the folder "Reports" with you
5m ago
Jordan Reed removed your access to the folder "Payroll"
2h ago
Sam Lee shared the document "Q3 forecast.xlsx" with you
1d ago
Step 5
Nothing here yet
An empty box tells you what would show up in it. Documents fills up as soon as someone shares a folder or document with you.
No notifications yet
When someone shares a document or folder with you, or removes your access, it shows up here.
Try it in Secretary, or create an account to get started.
Related guides
Unread notifications and the badge
What counts as seen, the number on the left rail, Mark all read, and moving between pages.
What arrives in Documents and General
Document and folder shares, removed access, group and role changes, persona notices, and where each one takes you.
Accepting or declining a hub invite
Join a hub from Notifications, see the role you would get, and what the row shows afterwards.