Notifications | Visual Space

Use this guide when you want to catch up on important activity and return to the work behind each notice. You will open the global Notification Center, identify what arrived since your last check, and confirm that the rows you choose lead to the expected destination.

Use this guide to set a calm notification baseline for your account, then make one joined space, subspace, or activity behave differently. You will finish with a global choice that applies across Visual Space and, when useful, one clearly visible area exception.

Notifications give signed-in users one calm place to review important activity across Visual Space. The center favors updates that help you act or understand what changed, then takes you straight back to the relevant work. It is **not a second inbox for every event**. Chat, Direct Messages, and update indicators on joined spaces or activities keep their own attention signals. This separation lets the notification center remain useful without repeating every message or local update.

Notification preferences let you decide which kinds of updates may enter your personal [notification center](notifications.md). They belong to your account, so you can keep one calm default across Visual Space and make focused exceptions for the places that need more or less attention.

The Notification Center gives signed-in users one low-noise place to catch important activity and return to the work behind it. It brings together selected content, space, recognition, engagement, role, and Visual Space notices without replacing the unread indicators that belong to chats and direct messages.

Notifications keeps important activity in one calm in-app center while leaving conversation unread signals with Chat and Direct Messages. Use this guide to understand the center, choose what may reach it, or follow a complete catch-up and preference-setting journey.