Feature Focus: Notifications
Stay in the loop with customized in-app and email notifications
We know a lot of time and effort goes into making sure deadlines are met when teams are working together. We’ve found one of the primary contributors to lost time is lack of visibility into the status of ongoing projects. This is especially true as creative teams grow and have more hands working together.
Previously, we added an activity feed visible from the Home tab in Chipmunk. My feed shows activity for the assets or collections you watch, while All activity shows all of your team’s activity, regardless of watched status. Soon, you’ll see a menu here for each action where you can toggle watched status directly from the feed.
While these are useful tools for staying up to date on the progress of your projects, we know that on a day-to-day basis, instantly being alerted to activity that could be critical to the success of your project is necessary.
Introducing notifications
With this in mind, we’re adding notifications in the top right corner for actions that others have performed on resources you care about. You’ll be notified if someone else modifies any resources you watch, including titles, descriptions, and more, or when drafts you submit are rejected or approved. This means anyone on your team can comment on your resources — or request actions or feedback — and we’ll notify you, keeping you in the loop.
The notifications feature will appear in Chipmunk in the next few days. Stay tuned as we continue to release features that will make Chipmunk even more powerful. Soon, we’ll introduce email notifications in addition to the ones in the app, plus the ability to choose in which specific situations you’re notified. A little further down the road, we’ll add the ability to tag specific users in comments and to annotate in comments so you can visually express proposed or necessary changes.
We hope you find notifications helpful. Let us know if you have any feedback.
