Managing Your Notification Preferences

Memex can tell you when something needs your attention — an approval, a finished thread, a change to a document you follow. You decide how and where you hear about it.

The two pieces

Channels — where notifications can go. Everyone has the in-app bell (always on). Add more channels to receive notifications elsewhere:

Channel	What it does
In-app	The bell in the top bar. Always on — you can't turn it off.
Email	Sends the notification to your mailbox. Add this to get emails.
Teams	(Coming soon) Sends to Microsoft Teams.

Rules — which notifications escalate beyond the bell, written in plain English. A small, fast assistant reads your rules and decides, for each notification, whether to also send it to email (or Teams). Examples of rules you can write:

"Email me approval requests right away."

"Send me thread completions by email, but nothing about actions I did myself."

"Don't email me on weekends."

How it works

The in-app bell always fires — that's the default, and it costs nothing.
If you've written rules, the triage assistant checks each notification against them and escalates to the channels you asked for.
No rules = in-app only. To start getting emails you need both: an Email channel and a rule that says what to send there.

The easy way: just ask

You don't have to edit anything by hand. Tell the Assistant (or your Executive Assistant) in plain language and it will set it up for you:

"Email me when an approval needs me." "Stop emailing me about thread completions." "What are my notification settings right now?"

It will read your current settings, explain them, make the change, and confirm.

The manual way

If you'd rather manage them directly, the settings are stored as nodes under your own space:

Channels: {you}/_NotificationChannel/… — set kind (InApp / Email / Teams), an optional target address (defaults to your own), and enabled.
Rules: {you}/_NotificationRule/… — write your intent in ruleText; optionally set a structured channel, plus enabled and order (lower runs first).

Tips

Keep rules short and specific — the assistant interprets the intent, so write them the way you'd tell a colleague.
Use order to express precedence when two rules could both apply.
Disable a channel or rule (set enabled off) instead of deleting it if you only want to pause it.