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How to Receive Notifications About Tasks

This guide explains how to configure your board and notification settings so you can receive updates about tasks within a board.

Written by Lora Petkova
Updated over a week ago

To receive notifications about a task, you need to be following it - either as a task member or as a follower - and have your notification settings enabled.

You can set this up in two simple steps:

Step 1: Make Sure You're Following Tasks

To receive updates about tasks, you need to either:

  • be assigned through the Members field in the task, or
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  • be a task follower.
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You can follow a task in one of the following ways:

  • Click the bell icon inside the task when you open it.
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  • Open the gear icon inside the task modal and select Manage followers.
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Note

It is not necessary to be a task member in order to receive notifications. Task members are responsible for working on the task, while followers simply receive updates about activity.

Task members are automatically added as followers of the task.

Follow Tasks by Default

If you want to stay informed about activity across every task in a board, you can automatically follow all newly created tasks. You can enable this setting from the board’s configuration:

  1. Open the board.
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  2. Click the gear icon in the board header.
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  3. Select More Settings.
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  4. Enable:

  • Add team members as default participants
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  • Notify team members when task is created (optional)
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When Add team members as default participants is enabled, you will automatically be added as a follower to every new task in that board.

You can also select additional board members who should be added as default participants.

Important

This setting is configured per board, so it needs to be enabled individually for each board where you want to receive notifications for all tasks.

Step 2: Configure Your Notification Preferences

The second step is to ensure your personal notification settings are enabled.

  1. Click the profile icon in the top-right corner of your workspace.
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  2. Select Notifications.
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  3. Scroll to the Tasks section.
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There, you can enable notifications for the task events that are relevant to you. For each event, you can choose how you would like to receive notifications:

  • Email
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  • Desktop push notifications
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  • Inbox notifications inside your workspace

You're All Set

Once your notification preferences are enabled and you are following tasks, you will start receiving updates about activity across those tasks.

If you need additional assistance, contact support.

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