Notifications

Overview

A single inbox for everything Kanvas AI wants to tell you about — mentions in tasks and comments, replies in chat, assignments, deal moves, meeting summaries, and more. Notifications appear in a drawer that slides in from the right of any page, with a count badge on the bell icon when there’s something new.

Use it for: catching up on what happened while you were away, jumping straight to a mention without searching for it, and tuning which events generate noise.

How it works

  1. Whenever something happens that’s relevant to you — someone mentions you, assigns you a task, replies to a thread you’re in, or invites you to a meeting — Kanvas AI creates a notification.
  2. A red dot on the bell icon (in the top bar) shows how many unread notifications you have.
  3. Click the bell to open the notifications drawer. Items are grouped by recency, with the newest at the top.
  4. Click any notification to jump straight to the thing it’s about — the task, the comment, the deal, the document.
  5. Notifications are marked read as soon as you open them. Mark all as read from the drawer header.

Usage

Open the drawer. Click the bell in the top bar, or use the Notifications entry in the left sidebar.

Jump to the source. Click any notification to open the task, comment, chat thread, deal, or document it’s about.

Mark all as read. Use the action in the drawer header. This clears the unread badge without dismissing the items.

Dismiss a notification. Use the dismiss action on any item to remove it from the list.

Tune what you get notified about. Open Settings → Notifications to enable or disable specific notification categories — mentions, assignments, deal updates, chat messages, and so on. Changes apply across web and email.

Email notifications. Some notification types also send an email when you’re not active in Kanvas AI. Control which categories send email from the same notifications settings page.

See unread channels. Conversations in chat show a separate unread indicator next to their name in the sidebar. Notifications focus on direct mentions and assignments rather than every channel message.

Edge cases & limits

  • Mentions always notify. Direct @mentions in tasks, comments, and chat always create a notification, even if other categories are turned off.
  • Self-actions don’t notify. Things you do yourself — moving your own task, posting your own comment — don’t generate a notification for you.
  • Live updates. New notifications appear in the drawer in real time without a refresh; the badge count updates immediately.
  • Per-user. Notification settings are personal. Changing yours does not affect anyone else.
  • MCP-initiated actions notify. When an external AI tool acts on your behalf through the MCP Server, the resulting notification is attributed to you and the tool name.
  • Chat — unread indicators on conversations are separate from this drawer
  • Settings & Workspaces — the Notifications section in your profile settings
  • Memory — tell Kenny what kind of summary you want when you ask “catch me up”
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