Notifications & inbox
Kevta tells you when work you are involved in changes. Everything arrives in one place — the inbox — and shows up live, without a refresh.
The inbox#
Inbox in the sidebar collects updates across every board you belong to; the sidebar carries an unread count beside it. Three tabs split the list: Unread, All, and a Mentions tab that is marked Soon and not yet available.
Rows are grouped by day under Today, Yesterday and Older, newest first, twenty at a time — Load more fetches the next page. Each row shows who did it, a badge naming the kind of change, and how long ago it happened.
Three ways to clear things:
- Open it. Clicking a row marks it read and takes you to the task — for a comment, straight to that comment.
- Mark as read. The button on an unread row clears it without navigating away.
- Mark all read. Clears everything at once.
Notifications about a deleted task link to the board rather than the task, since the task no longer exists. When someone makes several small edits in quick succession, Kevta rolls them into a single row — “made 3 updates to…” — instead of flooding the list.
What notifies you#
These are the changes that generate a notification.
AssignedYou were added to a task's people field.UnassignedYou were removed from one.CommentSomeone commented on a task you are involved in, or edited their comment. The row carries an excerpt.MovedThe task's status changed — the row names the status it moved to, and the one it came from.Due dateIts due date was set, changed or cleared.UpdateThe title was renamed, the description edited, or any other property changed.DeletedThe task was deleted.Who gets notified#
Kevta aims for the smallest sensible audience rather than notifying a whole board.
- Assignment goes to one person — the person added or removed, and nobody else.
- Everything else goes to the people attached to the task — its assignees plus anyone watching it.
- Your own actions never notify you. Assigning yourself, commenting on your own task, or moving your own work produces nothing in your inbox.
- Leaving the workspace ends it. People who no longer belong stop receiving notifications about its tasks.
Watching a task#
Watching is how you follow work that is not assigned to you. Watch on a task subscribes you; the button then reads Watching, and pressing it again unsubscribes.
Kevta also subscribes you automatically:
- When you create a task — so you hear what happens to work you filed.
- When you comment on one — so you catch the replies.
Either way, Watching on the task tells you where you stand, and turning it off stops the updates.
The bell & toasts#
Kevta pushes notifications to your open tabs as they happen. The bell in the header carries the unread count (capped at 99+) and opens a quick list.
New notifications also appear briefly as cards in the bottom-right corner, at most three at a time, each dismissing itself after a few seconds. View opens the task and marks it read, Mark read clears it in place, and closing the card hides it while leaving it unread. Read state is shared across your tabs and devices, so clearing something in one place clears it everywhere.
Preferences & email#
Settings → Notifications offers a grid of preferences. Be aware of what it currently controls: the choices are stored in your browser rather than on your account, so they do not follow you to another device, and they affect only the pop-up toasts — the inbox list and the bell count always show everything.
To reduce what reaches you, the reliable lever is what you are attached to: stop watching tasks you no longer care about, and keep assignees accurate. See tasks & fields for both.