Receiving Notifications
Kanera's notification drawer is a personal feed of work that needs your attention.
Open it from the bell button. If you have unread notifications, the bell shows an unread count.
What appears in the drawer
The drawer shows notifications for work you are connected to, including:
- Assignments.
- Mentions in comments.
- Comments and activity on assigned cards.
- Activity on watched cards and boards.
- Overdue cards.
- Overdue checklist items assigned to you.
Notifications include context such as the board, list, actor, action, card title, comment excerpt, attachment preview, and time.
Unread and all notifications
The drawer has two modes:
| Mode | Use |
|---|---|
| Unread | Focus only on items you have not cleared yet. |
| All | Review recent notifications, including read ones. |
Kanera keeps recent read notifications visible in the drawer for review, while unread notifications stay visible until you mark them read.
Filtering notifications
You can filter the drawer by:
- Board.
- User who performed the activity.
Use board filtering when you are catching up on a specific client, team, or project board. Use user filtering when you are reviewing updates from a teammate or manager.
Opening notifications
Click a notification to open its board or card.
If the notification belongs to a card, Kanera opens the card detail. Opening an unread notification marks it read.
You can also open notifications or boards in a new tab with a middle click.
Mark read and unread
Each notification has a read indicator.
Use it to:
- Mark a notification read when you have handled it.
- Mark a notification unread when you want to come back to it.
- Mark all notifications read when you have finished a catch-up pass.
Kanera also tracks unread counts by board and card, so unread work can be surfaced close to where the work happens.
How Kanera decides who receives notifications
Kanera avoids notifying the person who performed the action.
For card activity, notifications are usually sent to:
- Card assignees.
- Card watchers.
- Board watchers.
- People mentioned in comments.
Mentions take priority because they are explicit requests for attention. Assignments also take priority over passive watcher updates.
Some lower-signal card changes are sent only to assignees, not passive watchers. For example, label changes, custom field updates, checklist item edits, attachment changes, and description edits are useful to people doing the work but can be too noisy for everyone watching.
Email and push notifications
The notification drawer is the in-app feed.
Email and push are delivery channels for selected notification types. Some events, such as card due date changes, are handled through email and push preferences for assignees rather than being regular in-app drawer items.
Overdue cards and overdue checklist items can create both in-app notifications and email or push notifications depending on your settings.
Keeping track of work
Use notifications as a lightweight daily rhythm:
- Open unread notifications.
- Handle mentions and assignments first.
- Review overdue items.
- Filter by board when working through a specific area.
- Mark items read as you clear them.
- Leave important follow-ups unread until you have acted on them.
For workload planning across people, use Assigned Work. For personal catch-up and attention, use Notifications.