Using RyTask
Inbox and notifications
What lands in your inbox, how duplicates collapse, and how read, snooze, and archive work.
The inbox is the one place RyTask taps you on the shoulder. It's in-app, it's deliberately quiet, and you control what stays in it.
What lands in your inbox
| Type | When you get it |
|---|---|
| Assigned | An item is assigned to you. |
| Mentioned | Someone @mentions you in a comment. |
| Commented | Someone comments on an item you're involved with. |
| Status changed | An item you're involved with changes status. |
| Due soon | An item assigned to you approaches its due date. |
| Overdue | An item assigned to you passes its due date. |
Two built-in courtesies:
- You never notify yourself. Your own actions don't generate inbox entries for you.
- Duplicates collapse. If the same event would reach you through several routes — you're the assignee and you were mentioned, or a notification is generated twice — you get exactly one entry, not a pile. Time-based notices like due-soon arrive at most once per day per item.
Mentions open the door
When someone @mentions you on an item, you're granted read access to that item — even if you weren't a member of its project. The mention is an invitation into the conversation, so the link in your inbox always works.
Managing the inbox
Each entry can be:
- Marked read or unread — read entries leave the default view but stay under "All".
- Snoozed — gone until a time you pick, then it re-surfaces as unread. For "yes, but not right now."
- Archived — done with it. Archived entries are kept under their own filter, never deleted, so you can always look something up.
The inbox shows Unread by default, with filters for All, Snoozed, and Archived, and an unread-count badge in the sidebar.
What's coming
Today notifications live in the app only. On the roadmap:
- Coming soon Email delivery of notifications
- Coming soon Per-project preferences, digests, and mobile push