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Notification settings

Your notification settings are personal and apply across every project you work on.

Required role: none — everyone manages their own.

Open your settings​

Open your notification settings from your profile or the notification bell.

Set your digest timing​

  1. Set your timezone — digests are delivered in your local time, not the server's.
  2. Set the daily digest hour (0–23, default 8). This is when your batched notifications arrive.
  3. Save.
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Set the digest hour to just before you normally start on site. The digest then reads as "here's what changed since yesterday" instead of arriving mid-afternoon.

Mentions​

When someone @-mentions you in a comment:

  • Notify on mention — on or off.
  • Email — on or off.
  • Push — on or off.
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Mentions are always immediate. There's no digest option, because a mention is usually a question someone is waiting on an answer to.

Assignments​

When an issue is assigned to you:

  • Notify on assignment — on or off.
  • Email and Push — on or off individually.
  • Delivery — immediate or daily digest.

Document activity​

  • Document activity email — on or off.
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Document activity always arrives in your daily digest, never one email per change. Uploading forty files to a folder produces one line in your digest, not forty emails.

Site meetings​

  • Meeting report published — get an email when a site meeting report is published.
  • Meeting point assigned — get an email when a meeting point is assigned to your company.

Both are always immediate.

Engagement emails​

Builddar can nudge you about things that are quietly going stale:

  • Weekly project recap — a summary of project activity, every Monday.
  • Stale issue reminders — reminders about open issues with no recent activity. Set the threshold in days (default 7) that makes an issue count as stale.
  • Re-engagement emails — a nudge when you haven't used Builddar for a while.

Each can be turned off independently.

Push notifications​

  • Push enabled — the master switch for push on all your devices.

Turning this off silences push everywhere without changing your per-category choices. See Push notifications.

Reading your notifications​

From the notification bell you can:

  • See your unread count and a summary of what's waiting.
  • Mark one as read, or mark all as read.
  • Open a notification to jump straight to the issue, document, or report it refers to.

When your settings don't apply​

A project manager can set a notification category to Off or Required for a whole project, which overrides your personal choice for that category on that project. See Project notification rules.

Project invitations always send, regardless of settings.

Next steps​

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