There are two ways you can access your notifications in Productive after you've customized your notification preferences in the settings.

📌 Note on Gmail Inbox integration: Next to the Notifications icon, you’ll now also see an Inboxes dropdown, which houses both the Gmail Inbox and the BCC Inbox. Productive notifications remain separate—you’ll always find them to the left of the Inboxes menu in the top navigation bar.

Hovering over the notifications icon displays the most recent notifications in chronological order. Click on any notification to open it.

Keep an extra eye on notifications marked with a purple @ symbol, indicating a direct mention. Unread notifications have a white background, while those already seen have a grey background.

Selecting the Open as sidebar option while hovering over the Inbox or clicking directly on the inbox icon will expand it completely and keep it open at all times. 

Opening a notification from the inbox displays the related item on the right, allowing you to address issues one by one.

Filter notifications by date, project, or type (budget, deal, invoice, payment, subscribed tasks).

Jump through your notifications and choose between viewing:

Archive a notification by selecting the "Archive" option when hovering over it. Archived notifications can be accessed by switching from the Inbox to the Archive in the inbox dropdown menu.

Archive all your notifications at once, access the notification settings, toggle the compact notification view for improved legibility, or switch on the do-not-disturb option to pause notifications until you're ready to dive back in.
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