The inbox
Four things are worth interrupting you for between Monday briefs. They land in an inbox behind a bell, on both the web app and the phone.
What arrives
| When | |
|---|---|
| A competitor is ready | Profiling finished and it is being watched daily |
| A competitor failed | The site could not be read — nothing is being watched |
| Critical signals | Once a day, if that day turned any up |
| Your weekly brief | Monday morning, with the headline |
That is the whole list. It does not carry ordinary signals, because a stream that reports everything is one you stop reading — the feed is where signals go.
Most of the time it is empty
Competitors do not often finish analysing, fail, or do something critical, so the usual state of this thing is nothing to report. The bell stays where it is and says so when you open it.
That is worth knowing in advance, because an empty inbox is easy to read as a broken one. It is not: it means nothing has happened that was worth interrupting you for, and the feed is where the ordinary week is.
Reading it
The list is chronological, newest first. Unread rows carry a dot and sit on a slightly lighter background — the dot is the real marker, so the state survives for anyone who cannot pick out the tint.
Opening a row marks it read and takes you to what it is about: the competitor, the signal, or the brief. A critical-signals row covering more than one signal opens the feed instead, because there is no single thing to open.
Mark all read appears in the header while anything is unread. There is no way to mark something unread again — read is a record of what you have seen rather than a flag you manage, and anything you might want back is still in the feed, the Competitors screen, or the brief it came from.
Notifications are kept for 30 days and then dropped.
On the phone
The same rows, behind the same bell, at the top right of every tab. It is not a tab of its own: the four in the bar are the places you go to work, and this is one you glance at and leave.
If push notifications are on, these also arrive as notifications. The difference between the two is why the inbox exists at all — a push you swipe away is gone, and a row in here is not. The push is a second delivery of something already recorded, not the only one.
What the web does not have
Push. Browsers can do it, probr does not yet, so on the web the bell is the only way these reach you and it only updates while a tab is open.
In practice that covers the case it was built for: you add a competitor, go and read something else, and the bell tells you when it is ready. It does not cover closing the laptop — for that, the phone.
Turning the notifications off
The inbox itself cannot be turned off, and there is nothing in it that would be worth the setting: four kinds of event, none of them frequent.
Push, on the phone, is a switch in Settings → Delivery. Turning it off leaves the inbox exactly as it is — you simply come to it rather than it coming to you.