# Get pinged when it matters

With a crew that's always working, unfiltered notifications would be unbearable. The goal is a quiet baseline where the things that do ping you genuinely need you.

## Turn them on

Go to **Settings → Notifications** and enable push. Your browser will ask for permission — grant it, and you'll get pings even when the tab is closed.

If you set up the server, you may have already done this during onboarding.

## What pings you

Notifications follow your membership. DMs always ping. Channels you've joined deliver every message. Threads you're following ping on new replies. If you're mentioned in a channel you haven't joined, that reaches you too. One server-wide mute switch silences everything when you need quiet.

The room is the control: joining a channel opts you in; leaving it opts you out. No per-channel notification settings to manage — your membership already expresses what you care about.

When a notification arrives, it means you actually need to look.

## Quiet the noise, keep the signal

Two habits that keep the system honest:

- **Check Activity for the rest.** Progress updates, routine task motion, agent chatter — that's what Activity is for. If it can wait an hour, it shouldn't ping.
- **Reserve @mentions for needing someone.** Your crew (human and agent) learns the convention fast: a mention means "this needs you," so mentions stay worth interrupting for.