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# How to Set Up Notifications People Actually Read
- URL: https://blog.jestor.com/notifications-people-actually-read/
- Published: 2026-09-17T22:34:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-17T22:34:42.000Z
- Author: Bruno Bannach

To create **notifications people actually read**, volume has to stay low enough that each one carries meaning. A team that receives forty alerts a day reads none of them.

## How notification fatigue develops

Each alert is added for a good reason, and nobody removes any.

- An automation for every situation someone might care about
- Managers subscribed to everything in case they miss something
- Alerts that require no action and carry no information
- Notifications duplicated across channels

## What to send, and to whom

| Situation                       | Mechanism                                     |
| ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| **You were mentioned**          | A mention, which also emails immediately      |
| **You own a process**           | Table following, showing what others change   |
| **You own a few records**       | Record following, rather than the whole table |
| **A specific condition is met** | A notification automation, narrowly scoped    |
| **Everything else**             | A dashboard, checked when convenient          |

## How to configure it in Jestor

1. Rely on mentions in **Jestor** for anything needing a specific person's attention.
2. Use table following for process owners rather than building automations per field.
3. Use record following where someone cares about a handful of items.
4. Build notification automations only for precise conditions, not for general changes.
5. Move everything informational to a dashboard with conditional colour instead.

## Why choose Jestor for signal over noise?

**Jestor** does not notify you of your own changes when following a table, which removes a large share of the noise that makes following unusable elsewhere.

Because the notification shows the previous and new value, many can be resolved without opening the record — which is what keeps a moderate volume readable.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Will I be notified of my own edits?

No, only changes made by others. See [jestor.com](https://jestor.com/?ref=blog.jestor.com).

### Do mentions send an email?

Yes, immediately.

### What should replace informational alerts?

A dashboard with conditional colour.

## Video Tutorial: Step by Step

Check out other practical tutorials on the Jestor YouTube channel.

## Get to know Jestor

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