Notification preferences — per-category email and Teams opt-in and reminder settings
Last updated: July 12, 2026 by Steve
Notification Preferences
Notification preferences control which categories of activity also reach you by email and Microsoft Teams. They never touch the in-app Notices feed, which is always on — email and Teams are amplifiers layered on top of it. Open the panel from the Settings (gear) icon in the Notices panel.
(screenshot placeholder — capture: the preferences grid with the All notifications master row, mutable category rows showing the Email dropdown and Teams toggle, and the locked Due-date reminders and System announcements rows with lock icons)
The Preferences Grid
Preferences are a grid of categories against two channels, Email and Teams:
- All notifications (the master row) sets your default Email and Teams behaviour. Any category you don't customise follows this row.
- Mutable categories — Mentions, Comments, Assignments, Tasks, and Request activity — can be overridden per category. Email is a dropdown with three modes — Instant, Daily digest, or Off — and Teams is a simple on/off toggle.
- Locked categories — Due-date reminders and System announcements — are compliance-tier: they are always delivered instantly and shown checked and disabled with a lock icon. You cannot mute them.
Setting a Category
- To change everything at once, set the All notifications row.
- To override one category, set its Email mode (Instant, Daily digest, or Off) and its Teams toggle.
- Locked categories can't be changed — they always send instantly.
The Daily Digest
The daily digest bundles all digest-mode emails into one message per day:
- Turn on Send one daily email instead of individual emails.
- Pick a Delivery time (whole hour) and Delivery days (Every day or Weekdays only).
- Set any category's Email mode to Daily digest to route it into the bundle. The digest option is greyed out until the digest is enabled.
- Click Save.
The digest replaces the instant email for those categories — it never double-sends. Times run in your profile time zone (shown in the caption, falling back to UTC if unset). Due-date reminders and system announcements always send immediately, regardless of digest settings.
(screenshot placeholder — capture: the Daily digest section with the enable toggle, the Delivery time selector, and the Delivery days choice)