Customize notifications in Notion Mail

In Notion Mail you can choose which email notifications deserve your attention — giving you control over three levels of notifications:

1. Account: turn your notifications on or off for each email account

2. View: turn notifications on or off per view — like Inbox and/or a custom view

3. Sender: always get notified for specific email addresses

You can manage your notification preferences in Notion Mail on desktop or web:

• Open Notion Mail

• In the sidebar, open Settings

• Select Notifications

There you’ll see controls to customize your notifications for your account, views, and senders. You can also send a test notification to make sure everything is working as expected.

Notion Mail checks your notification settings in this order:

1. Account settings come first. If notifications are turned off for an account, you won’t get notifications for any emails in that account.

2. Then Notion checks the view. If the email is sorted into a view with notifications turned off, you won’t get a notification.

3. Your sender allowlist can override view settings. If the sender is on your allowlist, you’ll still get a notification — even if notifications are off for that view.

This setup lets you control notifications at a high level — like muting an entire account — while still making sure you’re alerted for important senders.

If you have more than one email account connected to Notion Mail, you can turn notifications on or off for each account in Notion Mail Settings → Notifications.

For example, you might keep notifications on for your work inbox while silencing your personal inbox.

If notifications are turned off for an account, no emails from that account will send notifications — regardless of your view settings.

You can also control notifications for specific views — such as Inbox, Calendar, GitHub, or any custom view you’ve created.

To enable or disable view notifications:

1. In Notion Mail → Settings → Notifications → Enable notifications per view.

2. Adjust your view notifications by toggling on or off specific views.

Default behavior

• Inbox notifications are on by default

• All other views are off by default

This default behavior helps reduce noise, especially if you use views to route lower-priority mail such as newsletters or automated updates.

For example, if newsletters are automatically sorted into a Reading view and GitHub updates into a GitHub view, you can keep both views muted while still getting notifications for important emails that land in your inbox.

If there are people you always want to hear from — such as a key client, manager, family member, etc. — add specific email addresses to your sender allowlist.

Emails from your allowlist will always trigger a notification, even if they land in a view where notifications are turned off.

To add senders:

1. In Notion Mail → Settings → Notifications → Enable notifications per sender

2. Add one or more email addresses

3. Select Add senders

To remove senders:

1. In Notion Mail → Settings → Notifications → Enable notifications per sender

2. Find the email address you would like to remove then click the x to the right of the address

At launch, you can only add senders to your allowlist, you can’t mute senders from this list.