---
key: choose-how-nova-notifies-you
title: Choose how and when Nova notifies you
audience: staff
section: your-profile
routes: ["/profile/notifications"]
features: ["core.profile"]
since: 0.0.1
updated: 0.0.1
status: published
summary: Pick which ways Nova can reach you (in Nova, browser, email, text, call, phone app), turn topics on or off, set quiet hours, and decide which alerts pop up on screen.
keywords: [notification settings, alerts, stop emails, too many notifications, push notifications, quiet hours, do not disturb, mute, text alerts]
related: [use-the-notification-center, add-an-email-or-phone-to-your-profile, add-a-custom-ringtone-or-alert-sound, tell-your-team-about-tomorrows-jobs]
---

Select your picture or initials at the right end of the top bar, then select **Alerts** in your account menu. You can also press the gear in the bell panel, or open **Profile** and choose the **Notifications** tab. The page address is `/profile/notifications`.

Every switch saves as soon as you change it; a **Saved.** note confirms it. These choices are yours only.

## Steps

1. Under **Apply changes to**, keep **All workspaces by default**. That sets your choices everywhere you work in Nova. Pick the other option only when one company needs different settings from the rest.
2. Open **How Nova alerts you** and switch on the ways Nova may reach you: **In-app**, **Browser push**, **Email**, **Text message**, **Voice call** and **Mobile push**. Each card says where it goes, such as your primary email or phone.
3. For browser pop-ups, switch on **Browser push**, then press **Enable this browser** and allow notifications when your browser asks. **Send test push** checks it works. Do this once on each computer you use.
4. Open a topic section (for example **Notification topics**), then a group, and switch whole topics on or off. Under each topic, switch the individual ways off that you do not want for it, such as email for a busy topic.
5. Open **In-app summary & quiet hours**. Under **Summary frequency**, pick **Daily summary** or **Weekly summary** to bundle less important items, or **Off** to see each one.
6. Switch on **Use quiet hours** to pause email, text, calls and push overnight. Set your **Timezone**, then set each window's **Start time**, **End time** and **Active days**, using **Weekdays**, **Weekends** or **Every day** as shortcuts. **Add Window** adds another.
7. Open **In-app heads-up alerts** to decide what pops up over your screen. **Heads-up cards** turns pop-ups on or off, **Urgent fallback alerts** keeps urgent ones coming, and **Preview detail** chooses **Compact preview** or **Expanded preview**. **Show test notification** shows an example.

## What you see

- **In-app** always keeps a record in the bell and the notification center, even during quiet hours. Turning it off asks you to confirm.
- **Organization coverage** matters if you belong to more than one company: pick which companies can still alert you while you work in another.
- **Email inbox visibility** and **Messaging inbox visibility** choose which shared inboxes can show up in your notifications.
- **Attention audio** sets the sounds Nova plays in your browser.
- Under **Personal communications workflow**, choose whether you follow a conversation when someone mentions you (**Auto-follow when I am mentioned**) or after you hand it off (**Keep following after I hand work off**), then press **Save personal defaults**.

## If something looks different

- A card says to add a primary email, a text-capable number or a voice-capable phone: add it on the **Contacts** tab first ([[add-an-email-or-phone-to-your-profile]]).
- **Browser push** says **This browser does not support push.** or that permission is blocked: allow notifications for Nova in your browser's site settings, then press **Enable this browser** again.
- Browser notifications cannot start or checking them fails: check your internet connection, then press **Refresh status**. If alerts still do not arrive, press **Repair browser**. Nova explains a failed attempt so you can try again; you can keep using the rest of Nova.
- **Mobile push** asks you to link a Nova mobile app: sign in to the app on your phone first.
- Android opens organization workspaces. Platform and enterprise consoles and their alerts stay in the web app. Email push tells you about new incoming messages and replies. Mailbox status, refresh and administrative changes do not send phone push alerts.
- In the Android app, open Settings, then Phone notifications to check whether Android has blocked alerts or silenced a category. To change sounds, open Phone, choose Calls and press the sound settings button. Under Phone sounds, choose calls, texts, email, voicemail or another category to open its Android sound and vibration settings. Android sound choices take priority over your Nova sound profile; phone volume, Silent mode and Do Not Disturb also apply. Ongoing-call and background status notices stay quiet. Text alerts follow their topic defaults until you change them.
- Some cards show company-wide voice and escalation settings: only admins can change those, and they apply to everyone. Others see them read-only.