Set up notifications

Goal: get emailed about the changes you care about, and only those, by choosing which events trigger email notifications and where those notifications apply.

When to use this: when you want to monitor a collection, folder, or item without checking the library manually, for example when a slide is updated or a version needs approval.

Steps

1. Open the notification settings. Go to Email Notifications on the collection, folder, or item you want to watch.

   

2. Turn on the Daily Digest if you’d rather get one rolled-up email a day than individual messages.

3. Pick your events. Under Notify Me When:, toggle the individual events you want. Your choices save automatically — there’s no separate save button.

   Note

   The exact list of events under Notify Me When: depends on the item type and your library’s configuration.

What you’ll receive

• Action Notification — an immediate email when a watched event happens.
• Activity Summary — the daily digest, rolling up the day’s activity.
• Event emails such as Approval Pending when a version needs an approver’s attention.

Tips & pitfalls

Tip

Scope cascades. A choice set at the collection level covers the folders and items inside it, so you can subscribe broadly once instead of item by item.

Note

Set notifications at the right level to avoid noise: watch a whole collection for a broad interest, or a single item when you only care about one slide or document.

Related

Notifications (reference)Email subscriptions, the daily digest, and the events you can watch.

Approve contentWhere Approval Pending emails come from.

Manage a documentWatch a document for check-ins and new versions.

Build a presentationKeep track of decks you depend on.