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# Notifications
> The switches that decide what Squad tells you, and the sidebar inbox where it lands.
Notifications have two separate surfaces, and they're easy to confuse.
What Squad tells you about. They live on the **Notifications** tab of Settings.
Where those notifications land. A popover on the sidebar, opened from **Inbox** under the bell icon.
The inbox is a popover, not a page. It has no route of its own, so there's no URL you can bookmark or share for it.
## Choosing what you hear about
Open **Settings** in the sidebar and pick the **Notifications** tab. Every topic Squad
can notify you about is listed there, each with its own description.
Each row carries two switches: **In-app** and **Email**. Some topics offer both, some
only one, and a row shows only the switches its topic actually supports. Turning both off
unsubscribes you from that topic.
Email sending is not switched on yet, so **Email** records your preference and no mail
arrives. Leave **In-app** on for anything you need to see.
Toggle a switch and it applies immediately. There's no save button and no confirmation
toast. If a change fails it snaps back and tells you why.
Your choices are yours alone, so muting a topic doesn't affect anyone else on the team.
They're also per workspace, which lets you follow one workspace closely and stay quiet on
another. Open a second tab and a change made in one appears in the other without a reload.
## The inbox
**Inbox** sits near the top of the sidebar with a bell icon. A number appears on it when
you have unread notifications, and reads `9+` past nine. Click it and the inbox opens
beside the sidebar.
The list is flat, newest first. Unread rows are tinted, bold, and carry a small dot on the
right. Ten load at a time, with **Load more** at the bottom when there are more.
**Mark all read** appears in the header while anything is unread. It clears everything
unread, not just what's on screen, and stops at the newest item you've actually seen, so
something arriving mid-click stays unread.
The count on the bell is the real number waiting for you in this workspace, and reads
`9+` past nine.
Clicking a notification marks it read and takes you to what it's about. If Squad doesn't
recognise the kind, the row still appears and still marks read; it just has nowhere to
send you.
**All activity** at the bottom of the popover opens the full [Activity](/activity) feed,
which is the complete change log rather than the subset you subscribed to.
With nothing waiting, the inbox shows **No notifications yet**.
New notifications also appear as a toast in the corner while you have Squad open. Clicking
the toast does the same thing as clicking the row.
## What Squad notifies you about
**Action assignments.** Someone assigns an action to you. This one is directed at a
person rather than broadcast, so it defaults to in-app and email both.
Individual insights, documents and briefs don't notify. They arrive in volume, mostly
made by machines, so one notification each would drown out the things aimed at you.
Squad never notifies you about something you did yourself.
**Agent reports.** Every agent that writes reports gets its own row under **Agent
reports** in Settings, so you follow the ones you care about and ignore the rest. Each row
names the agent and links to it. There is nothing to turn on at the agent's end: reports
always reach their subscribers, and the two switches decide whether yours arrive in-app,
by email, or both.
A briefing arrives differently on each channel. **In-app** gives you the headline and
opens the briefing when you click it. **Email** carries the whole briefing, so you can read
it without leaving your inbox; a briefing too long to send in full says so and links to the
rest.
If nobody is subscribed, the run records the delivery as skipped rather than failing, and
says why. See [Agents](/agents).
## Cookbook
Open **Settings**, go to **Notifications**, and turn both switches off on the topics you
don't want. Squad notifies you only about things aimed at you, so there is not much to
mute, but a workspace with many agents can get loud. Turn off the agents you don't follow under **Agent
reports** and check [Insights](/insights) on your own schedule.
Turn **In-app** on for it. That is the channel that delivers. The two switches are
independent, so a row can be set one way, both ways, or not at all, but **Email** on its
own means the topic reaches nobody.
Open the **Inbox**, work down the list clicking through the ones that matter, then hit
**Mark all read**, which clears the lot rather than just the visible page. For the fuller
picture of what changed while you were out, including everything you never subscribed to,
click **All activity**.
The switches are per workspace. Switch workspace, open **Settings**, and set the toggles
differently there.
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