Notifications
The bell in the top menu bar carries everything that needs your attention: mentions, assignments, replies, sync problems, and, importantly, the things your AI agents have proposed and are waiting on you to approve. Click it for the recent list, or open the full view for search, filtering, and a settings matrix that controls exactly how each kind of notification reaches you.
Where to find it
Click the bell icon in the top menu bar for the recent list. Open the full Notifications view for the searchable list, or reach the same settings from Settings › Notifications.
Key concepts
- Category. The kind of event a notification represents, an app, roughly (email,
calendar, tasks, signatures, agent approvals, and so on). Every category you can act on is only shown if the app it belongs to is enabled for you.
- Channel. Where a category is allowed to reach you: In-app (the bell),
Desktop (OS pop-ups and browser push), or Mobile (push to the phone app and an installed phone web app).
- Source. The specific thing behind a notification: a channel, a specific email
sender, a specific conversation. Sources, not categories, are what you mute.
- Approval. A staged action an AI agent proposed at the propose permission level,
waiting for you to approve or reject it.
Read and act on notifications
- Click the bell for the 20 most recent notifications, each with mark-read,
mute, and open actions in its hover or right-click menu.
- Use ↑ / ↓ to move a row highlight and Enter to open the highlighted row,
the same as clicking it.
- Open the full view for everything else: a search box, an **All / Unread /
Muted** split, a category filter, and the list grouped by date (Today, Yesterday, This week, Earlier).
Clicking a notification marks it read and takes you straight to the item it's about: the specific task, thread, email, signature request, and so on.
Approve what an agent proposed
An agent working at the propose level stages its work and notifies you rather than acting immediately. The notification carries the approve/reject action inline, so approving a drafted email or a staged change is one click from the bell, and it shows the staged change itself (a drafted reply's subject and body, a proposed task, or the full set of fields being changed) so you can review it right there without opening the Agents feed. Approving is what actually commits it.
If you're seeing more of these than you want to review one by one, the fix is usually to raise that agent's permission level to execute for the capabilities you trust, or narrow what wakes it in the first place. See the Agents documentation.
Mute a noisy source
- Right-click a notification (or open its overflow menu).
- Choose Mute this source.
Muting hides future notifications from that specific source, a channel, an email sender, a conversation, from the bell and every count, without deleting anything already there. Muted sources are listed in the full view's Muted segment, each with a one-click Unmute, so muting is reversible rather than a decision you have to be sure about.
Choose how each kind reaches you
- Open the gear icon in the notifications view, or go to **Settings ›
Notifications**. Both open the same settings matrix.
- For each category, switch In-app, Desktop, and Mobile on or off
independently.
That's how you keep, say, agent approvals reaching your phone while leaving routine activity in the bell only. Categories belonging to an app you don't have enabled aren't shown at all.
Turn on desktop notifications
The first time notifications are available, a banner offers to turn them on. Click Enable and grant the browser or system permission prompt. On the desktop app, this also opens your operating system's own notification settings, since the app can't verify by itself whether you actually granted permission there.
Get notifications on your phone
- Install Bitment as an app on your phone: Add to Home Screen in your mobile
browser, or the dedicated iOS app.
- Enable notifications when prompted.
Mobile-channel categories then push straight to it, and your unread count also appears as a badge on the app icon, on your desktop dock or taskbar, the iOS app, and an installed phone web app alike. The badge clears as you read notifications, on whichever device you read them from, and clears entirely when you sign out.
Tips
- A notification's deep link always opens the exact item it's about: the specific
task sheet, email thread, or signature request, not just the app in general.
- Desktop and mobile notifications for a given category only fire while the
respective channel is switched on for that category, so muting noise and tuning channels work together rather than one overriding the other.
- Muting is per source, not per category. You can mute one noisy email sender or
channel while leaving the rest of that category's notifications untouched.