Guide
You can receive updates about an entity or a document into your Inbox using Watch action.
How to Watch an entity or a document?
There are several rules that make you a watcher:
When you created an entity.
When you are assigned to an entity.
When you add a comment to an entity.
When you add an entity to Favorites.
Navigate to Settings → Notifications to turn on/off these rules.
You can also manually subscribe to all changes via the Watch action. It is available in:
Add watchers via automated rule
There is also Watch action in automatic rules, so you can make some users as Watchers.
For example, you have Task database and want to add Watchers to some tasks. In this scenario you can create a relation to a User database and call it Watchers, then you can create a rule: when an item is linked to Task in Watchers collection, trigger Watch action for this item.
Another example, you want entity creator to watch the entity automatically. In this case you can create a rule like that:
Unwatch done entities
You can automatically unwatch entities moved to final state with a rule. Enable it in Settings → Notifications.
What notifications you will receive
Overall, you will get notifications about all changes, like some field changed, item added into collection, item removed from a collection, comment added, file added, reference added or removed.
Changes in rich text field do not trigger notification.
Notifications about entity events are merged into a single notification usually, in this case click Show more updates link to see all changes.
Watchlist: see a list of all entities you watch
You can see all entities you're watching → find Watchlist in your Inbox.
In a watchlist you can filter entities by database, unwatch some entities, or even unwatch all entities or all completed entities with a single click.
FAQ
Can I receive notifications via Email as a Watcher?
Not yet.
Can I receive notifications about rich text updates and documents updates?
No, only about inline comments.