What the notifications page is showing you

Notifications is a queue of things that happened while you were doing something else. Read it as a queue rather than a feed and it stops feeling like noise.

The two numbers

Two cards sit at the top: Unread and Total. Only one of them is a to-do list. Unread is what still wants something from you; Total is history. If Unread is in the hundreds, the page has stopped working as a queue and the fix is a clear-out, not a longer read.

Grouped by when

Cards are grouped under Today, Yesterday, This Week and Earlier. The grouping is quiet triage: things in Today are usually still live, and things in Earlier have almost always been resolved or overtaken by events.

So read Today and Yesterday properly, skim This Week, and treat Earlier as something to clear rather than work through.

The two filters

The read-state dropdown switches between Unread (n) and All (n), each with its own count. Working in unread is the habit worth building — every card you deal with disappears, and an empty list is a genuine finish.

The source filter offers All, Personal, and each organisation by name. This matters if you belong to more than one organisation, because your personal life and two employers arriving in one stream is exactly how things get missed. Reading one source at a time keeps you in one context.

The empty states

Two different messages mean two different things. No unread notifications with You’re all caught up! means you have cleared the queue. No notifications yet with Notifications will appear here means nothing has ever arrived in this view — often because a filter is narrowing you to a source with no activity.

The list is paginated, so an older item you are hunting for is further down rather than gone.