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Notifications tell you when something relevant to you happens in Orbit. Each notification has a type — what happened — and can be delivered on one or more channels: in-app (the notification bell) and email.

Notification types

IssueMentioned and ProjectInvited exist as notification types with their own default settings, but nothing in the app currently triggers them — there’s no @mention parser in comments or descriptions, and no project invite flow to invite from. Don’t take their presence in Settings as confirmation those features exist yet.
Notifications are per-user — nobody sees anyone else’s notifications, and there’s no team-wide or broadcast notification.

Channels

Each notification type has its own in-app and email toggle, so you might have “Issue assigned” emailed to you while “Issue commented” stays in-app only, for example. Whatever a type’s channel setting resolves to, that’s checked independently for every notification — an email that’s disabled for a type is simply never sent, it isn’t queued and skipped.
Email delivery depends on a queue worker actually running and processing jobs (php artisan queue:work, or the queue service in Docker — see Docker). If the worker isn’t running, email notifications silently pile up in the jobs table instead of being delivered — in-app notifications are unaffected since those are written synchronously.

Managing notification preferences

From Settings → Account → Notifications, every notification type is listed with an in-app and email toggle. Changes save immediately and are recorded in the activity log. See Settings for how to get there.

The in-app notification list

Every notification has a type (success, info, warning, or error), a title, a message, and optionally a link to the page it relates to. From the notification list you can:
  • Open a notification’s linked page
  • Mark all notifications as read at once
  • Delete a notification you no longer need
Notifications are loaded automatically and kept available across the app, so the notification bell reflects unread notifications without a manual refresh.
Last modified on August 17, 2026