# Staying informed (https://docs.treema.ai/en/docs/tasks/notifications)

The activity bell — what lands there, how it's grouped, and how to keep it from becoming noise.

The bell in the top bar is where the work comes to find you. It carries a red count of what you
haven't read, and clicking it opens your activity — everything that happened on the tasks you're on,
alongside the team chats you're part of.

![Screenshot: tasks/notifications](https://docs.treema.ai/screenshots/en/tasks/notifications.png)

1. Your activity, newest first, grouped by when it happened

## What lands here [#what-lands-here]

From tasks:

| You're told when            | Because                                          |
| --------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| **Assigned you a task**     | You are now responsible for it.                  |
| **Removed you from a task** | You are not, any more.                           |
| **Changed task status**     | Something you're on has moved.                   |
| **Changed task priority**   | What was normal is now critical, or the reverse. |
| **Commented on a task**     | Somebody wrote something on your task.           |
| **Mentioned you in a task** | Somebody wants *you* specifically.               |
| **Added you as a watcher**  | You're now following a task.                     |
| **Recurring task created**  | A schedule has produced today's task for you.    |

You get these for tasks you're an **assignee** or a **watcher** of — that's what watching means.
Mentions are the exception: an `@` reaches you whether or not you're on the task.

## Reading it [#reading-it]

Rows are grouped by when they happened — **Today**, **This week**, **Last week**, **Earlier** — and
each shows who did it, what they did, the task's number as a chip, and its title or the comment
itself. Unread rows carry a blue dot.

Clicking a row opens the thing it's about: a task row opens that task, a chat row opens that
message. The rows for a task clear themselves once you open the task — reading the work is what
counts as reading the notification, not clicking the row.

The tabs narrow it: **All**, **DMs**, **Mentions**, **Threads**, **Tasks**, each carrying its own
count. **Mentions** is the one to check when you're short of time — it's the list of things somebody
asked you for by name.

## Keeping it clean [#keeping-it-clean]

The menu at the top right of the panel has three:

* **Mark all read** — clears the count without deleting anything.
* **Delete all read** — tidies away what you've dealt with.
* **Delete all** — removes everything, read and unread, after a confirmation. There is no undo.

A single row can be dismissed with the **×** that appears when you hover it.

<Callout title="The bell is not the task list">
  Dismissing a notification does nothing to the task — the work is still assigned to you, still due,
  still in the list. Treat the bell as "what has happened since I last looked" and the
  [task list](https://docs.treema.ai/en/docs/tasks/list/) as "what I have to do". Teams that use the bell as their to-do list lose work
  the moment somebody presses **Mark all read**.
</Callout>