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Notifications

How Chatalot keeps you informed about new messages, mentions, and activity -- and how to control what gets your attention.

In This Section

Page Description
Notification Settings Global and per-channel notification configuration
Unread Indicators Badge counts, bold text, mention highlights, and mark-as-read
Do Not Disturb Suppressing notifications when you need focus

Overview

Chatalot has four layers of notification:

  1. Visual indicators -- Unread badges, bold channel names, and unread separators in the message list. These are always active.
  2. Sound notifications -- Short tonal sounds for DMs, channel messages, mentions, and voice join/leave events. Configurable per event type.
  3. Desktop notifications -- OS-level popup notifications (e.g., macOS Notification Center, Windows toast, Linux notification daemon). Requires browser permission.
  4. Web push notifications -- Notifications delivered even when the browser tab is closed. DMs only. Requires service worker and browser permission. Payloads contain only metadata (sender name, channel) -- never message content.

All notification settings are stored locally and synced to the server as part of your preferences, so they follow you across devices.

Quick Reference

What happened Visual Sound Desktop
New message in channel Unread badge + bold name Optional (off by default) Optional (off by default)
New direct message Unread badge + bold name On by default On by default (+ push if enabled)
@mention Unread badge + bold name On by default On by default
Someone joined voice -- On by default --
Someone left voice -- On by default --