--- url: /guides/set-up-notifications.md description: >- Choose which events notify you in each workspace and where they reach you — the app, Telegram, desktop pop-ups or email — plus daily summaries, quiet hours and what a click on a notification shows. --- # Set up notifications Set up notifications so you hear about what needs you, and not about everything else: * a task [assigned to you](/guides/assign-and-watch-tasks); * a [mention](/guides/comment-and-mention) in a comment; * a deadline. Every notification lands in your **Inbox**, the app's page titled **Notifications**. The settings decide which events notify you and which other channels carry them. ## Settings page: one per workspace Notification settings belong to each [workspace](/concepts/hule-model) you are in. A new account starts with everything on except quiet hours. A workspace you join later starts with a copy of your own workspace's settings, and from then on each workspace keeps its own. 1. Click your name at the bottom of the sidebar and choose **Workspace settings**. With several workspaces, pick one in the submenu. Workspace settings open. 2. Under **Me in this workspace**, open **Notifications**. The page names the workspace it applies to. Every change on it saves as you make it. ![Workspace settings, Notifications for Acme: Telegram and Desktop pop-ups on, Email off, Watched activity off, and Remind me before at 30 minutes](/shots/guides/set-up-notifications-1.light.webp){.light-only} ![Workspace settings, Notifications for Acme: Telegram and Desktop pop-ups on, Email off, Watched activity off, and Remind me before at 30 minutes](/shots/guides/set-up-notifications-1.dark.webp){.dark-only} ::: warning Other workspaces keep their own settings A change here doesn't reach your other workspaces. To change one of them, pick it in the submenu of step 1. ::: 3. Under **Time zone**, check **Zone**. If the page says your browser is in another time zone, pick yours. Reminders, summaries and quiet hours all follow it. ::: tip One time zone in every workspace **Apply to all my workspaces**, next to **Time zone**, copies the zone to your other workspaces once. It doesn't keep them in sync. ::: ## Channels: where notifications reach you 1. Under **Channels**, leave on the channels you want and switch off the rest: * **Telegram**; * **Email**; * **Desktop pop-ups**. A channel you switch off carries no events. ::: warning Telegram and Email need setup first **Telegram** carries nothing until you [connect the Hule bot](/guides/use-the-telegram-bot#connect-the-bot): the switch alone isn't enough. **Email** needs a **Contact email** on your [**Member profile**](/concepts/personal-and-work#separate-workspaces-for-separate-people), under **Me in this workspace**. ::: ::: warning Pop-ups in a browser need permission **Desktop pop-ups** is on by default, but a browser asks for permission only when you click the switch: switch it off and on once, then choose **Allow**. The [desktop app](/guides/install-the-desktop-app) needs no permission; on an iPhone or iPad, pop-ups work only from Hule added to the Home Screen. ::: ### Channels compared | Channel | Carries | Needs | |---|---|---| | **Inbox** in the app | every event that is on; the channel itself can't be switched off | — | | **Telegram** | every event, with **Open** and **✅ Done** buttons (and **💤 +1h** on deadline reminders) | the Hule bot connected — [Use the Telegram bot](/guides/use-the-telegram-bot) | | **Desktop pop-ups** | every event, as a system notification | your browser's permission, or the desktop app | | **Email** | **Due soon** and **Overdue** while Telegram is not connected; daily and weekly summaries | a **Contact email** on your **Member profile** in this workspace | ## Events: what notifies you 1. Under **Events**, switch off what you don't want to hear about: * **Assigned to me**; * **Mentioned me**; * **Due soon**; * **Overdue**; * **New comment**; * **Watched activity**; * **Recurring task created**: a new task of a [repeating series](/guides/set-up-recurring-tasks). The switch saves at once, and that event stops notifying you on every channel, the **Inbox** included. 2. In **Remind me before**, set how many minutes before the end of the due day **Due soon** fires: from 5 to 720, 30 by default (30 means 23:30). **Overdue** comes at midnight. ::: info Counted from the end of the day **Due soon** counts back from the end of the due day even when the task has a time: with the default 30, a task due at 10:00 reminds you at 23:30. ::: Each event reaches one person or group: | Event | Goes to | |---|---| | **Assigned to me**, **Due soon**, **Overdue**, **Recurring task created** | the task's assignee | | **New comment**, **Watched activity** | the task's [watchers](/guides/assign-and-watch-tasks#watch-a-task) | | **Mentioned me** | whoever is mentioned | ### Example: Telegram first Anna leads **Acme** and wants deadlines and mentions on her phone, but not every status change. She keeps **Telegram** on, switches off **Watched activity**, and sets **Remind me before** to 120\. Every other event reaches her in Telegram; a task due on Friday reminds her at 22:00 that day. Status changes on tasks she watches no longer notify her anywhere, not even in her **Inbox**; she sees them in the task's [history](/guides/see-task-history). ## Daily and weekly summaries **Daily summary** (09:00) and **Weekly summary** (Monday) are on by default. 1. Under **Summaries**, set the daily **Time**, or switch **Daily summary** off. The **Time** row disappears while the daily summary is off. 2. Pick the weekly **Day of week**, or switch **Weekly summary** off. The weekly summary comes at the daily summary's time. ::: tip Weekly time with the daily summary off Switch **Daily summary** on, set **Time**, and switch it off again. ::: A summary arrives up to half an hour after the set time: * in the app; * in Telegram, if the bot is connected and **Telegram** is on; * by email, if you have a **Contact email** and **Email** is on. The daily summary is skipped on a day with nothing to report; the weekly one always comes. ## Quiet hours at night 1. Under **Quiet hours**, switch on **Keep quiet**. The **from** and **to** rows appear. 2. Set the window — 22:00 to 08:00 by default. During the window, notifications still land in your **Inbox**, and every other channel stays silent. ::: info Nothing is sent later What the window silenced isn't sent after it ends. It waits in your **Inbox**. ::: ## Inbox: where notifications wait 1. Click the bell (**Notifications**). Your Inbox opens: the page titled **Notifications**. 2. Click a notification about a task. The task opens at what the notification is about: * a comment, or a mention in one: scrolled into view in **Comments** and flashes (the tab opens if another one was showing); * a mention in the description: the description flashes; * a change on a task you watch: the changed fields flash. A toast, or a pop-up from the desktop app, does the same when you click it. A pop-up in the browser can open the task without scrolling to the comment. 3. On a notification, click **Snooze** and pick when it comes back: * **In 3 hours**; * **Tomorrow, 9:00**; * **Monday, 9:00**. The notification hides until then. **Archive** moves it out of the list instead. ::: tip Back to these settings The gear in the **Inbox**, **Manage notifications**, opens the notification settings. ::: ## If it doesn't work * **"Your browser has blocked notifications — re-enable them in browser settings."** You denied the permission earlier. Allow notifications for Hule in the browser's site settings, then switch **Desktop pop-ups** off and on; see [Channels](#channels-where-notifications-reach-you). * **On an iPhone or iPad the page says to add the app to the Home Screen.** Pop-ups there work only from the installed app: add Hule to the Home Screen and open it from there — see [Install the desktop app](/guides/install-the-desktop-app). * **No deadline emails.** Deadline emails come only while **Email** is on, Telegram is not connected, and you have a **Contact email** on your **Member profile** (see [Channels compared](#channels-compared)). If whoever invited you entered that address, open [**Member profile**](/concepts/personal-and-work#separate-workspaces-for-separate-people) and save it once to confirm it. * **Reminders come at the wrong hour.** Check **Zone** under **Time zone**; see [Settings page](#settings-page-one-per-workspace). * **The reminder came hours after the task's time.** Reminders count back from the end of the due day, not from the task's time; see [Events](#events-what-notifies-you). * **Nothing arrives in Telegram.** Connect the bot first: it is a separate step from the **Telegram** switch. See [Connect the bot](/guides/use-the-telegram-bot#connect-the-bot). * **A setting "didn't stick" in another workspace.** Each workspace has its own settings. Open the other workspace's **Notifications** page; see [Settings page: one per workspace](#settings-page-one-per-workspace). ## Related * [Assign and watch tasks](/guides/assign-and-watch-tasks) — which tasks you get notified about. * [Use the Telegram bot](/guides/use-the-telegram-bot) — connect the Telegram channel. * [Install the desktop app](/guides/install-the-desktop-app) — pop-ups on a computer or phone. * [See what changed in a task](/guides/see-task-history) — changes you no longer get notified about. * [Comment and mention people](/guides/comment-and-mention) — how mentions reach someone. * [Telegram bot commands](/reference/telegram-bot-commands) — what the bot answers to.