Guide
Control which reminders matter, when they arrive, and where notification history lives.
Published 2026-08-10 · Reviewed 2026-09-01
Open Settings → Notifications to choose the reminders and alerts that fit your work.
Notification options can include reading and deadline reminders, campaign activity, and other account events. Timing uses your configured timezone and notification preferences.
Read notification history
On a phone or in the tablet app, open notifications from the Dashboard. On the website, the header bell opens the same calm feed in a compact dropdown. The full message is visible in every notification row, so you can understand an update before opening anything. Unread rows use a tinted surface, a strong coloured edge and dot, a bolder title, and an Unread label; read rows return to the quieter plain surface.
Use Search notifications to find words in a title or message. Choose Filter to open every category in one clear grid, including unread items, conversations, books and plans, requests and teams, ARC Library updates, praise, and ARChie notes. There is no sideways category list to scroll.
Select a notification to mark it read and reveal delivery details plus one useful action. That action opens the related book, due-soon list, application, offer, team, conversation, update, plan, report, or workspace. A team-removal notice stays readable in the inbox and its action opens your remaining teams.
On phone and tablet pages, details open in a safe bottom sheet. On desktop and in the bell dropdown, they open only after selection in a temporary side drawer. Closing details returns you to the same place in the feed. Choose Open full Notification Center from the dropdown when you want the larger view.
A praise notification row opens the keepsake itself. Inside the keepsake, choose Back to Praise to close the detail view and return to the Praise category.
Reading Intentions can add one gentle request-cap nudge for a month after you move past your chosen cap. Praise that depends on Library counts waits for your real shelf to finish loading, so startup and sync do not turn a temporary empty list into a win.
Native push delivery also depends on device permission and the notification settings provided by Android or iOS.
Reconnect one phone
Account notification choices can be on while one phone has lost permission or its delivery connection. On that phone, open Settings → Notifications in ARC Library. If Reconnect notifications on this device appears, follow the device-settings instruction and choose Reconnect this device after permission is allowed.
Moderators receive an inbox alert and a phone push when a new author verification is waiting. Opening either alert takes you to the verification queue.
If an expected push is missing, first check the in-app notification history. Then check ARC Library notification preferences, device permission, and whether the device is online.