In spite of trying very hard, I have not been able to come up with a genuine use case for this. Nevertheless, if you do have a genuine use case for enabling email notifications, do let me know. In short, it defeats the purpose of using Teams. As a result, if you enable email notifications for events occurring in Teams, you are going to receive more mails. Since we are trying to avoid using email for teamwork and using Teams instead, Email notification is almost never required. I must say that it is a very confusing dialog. Just click on your profile picture on top right corner, choose Settings – Notifications. However, if you still have the older UI, read here
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Therefore, I had to update this article to incorporate the changes. The notifications dialog was completely redesigned around November 2020. What can be so important that I am allowing it to disturb me? Customize Microsoft Teams Notifications on Desktop
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How to customize Microsoft Teams Notificationsįirst – Think – What is it that is happening across Teams and is relevant and important for me to me? Enable on demand – and more importantly, enable only while required. Notification Offįinally, Off is the most peaceful setting. In short, it is a good balance between no notification and intrusive distractions. I do this whenever I finish one logical activity and want to have a break in between. So, you decide when you want to and catch up with the happenings. Furthermore, multiple notifications originating from different places and events will keep getting added to the Activity Feed. Because, it just puts an entry into the Activity Feed. Show only in FeedĬertainly, this is my favourite notification type. Therefore, we should minimize such distractions. This is intrusive and disturbs your focus. This means a popup at the bottom right corner of the screen – similar to the new email popup. Now let us look at three types of Teams notification options:īanner, Show only in Feed and Off.
But now you know! Activity Feed on Desktop and Mobile Three types of Microsoft Teams notifications But in the notification dialog it is called Feed – Show only in Feed. However, the phrase Activity feed is not shown anywhere in Teams dialogs and menus.įor instance, on the left side main menu it is called Activity. In fact, it is the first button in the Teams menu. Primer – What is a Feed?īefore we learn about notifications, we need to know what FEED means. Non-intrusive – where notifications go and accumulate somewhere. We get too many of them and that reduces our attention span. But you can apply these principles to all types of notifications. Of course, we must keep these to a bare minimum. Therefore, we should strive to minimize notifications. As a result, the quality of your work suffers. Due to this, the focus shifts to the interruption from the work at hand.