Staying on top of a project shouldn't mean chasing it. The Inbox is your personal feed inside elyvate: every update on the measures and Work Packages that involve you, in one place, as it happens.
You'll find it at the top of the sidebar, just above My Measures. The number next to it counts your unread notifications, so you know at a glance whether anything's waiting.
What lands in your Inbox
This first version covers the two things you work with every day: measures and Work Packages.
On measures:
A measure is assigned to you
Someone comments on a measure you're involved in
A measure's status changes: completed, needing support, escalated, or a routine move on a measure you share
A due date moves, with the warnings on the way to the escalation limit
A file is added, or the measure is archived, unarchived, moved to another Work Package, or deleted
The daily reminders: a measure starts tomorrow, is due tomorrow, is due today, or has gone overdue
A measure you're on is made recurring, its schedule changes, or its series ends
On Work Packages:
A Work Package you lead or belong to changes status
A Work Package is created, renamed, archived, or deleted
The Work Package Lead changes
If it involves you, it's there, ready whenever you are.
Several updates, one message
When one person makes several changes to the same measure within 90 seconds, they arrive as one message in your Inbox, so it stays tidy. The message shows how many changes were made, for example "5 changes", and names the fields that changed, such as the status or the due date.
If the same field is changed more than once, it shows as one change, from the first value to the latest
If someone undoes a change, it drops off the list
Changes to different measures never merge into one message
Comments, reminders and deletions are never bundled with other changes
You only see the changes you've chosen to be notified about: if you've switched off notifications for edits but kept status changes on, the message shows only the status change
A single change looks just as before.
Tailored to your role
What you receive depends on your role:
Contributors hear about the measures they're responsible for: assignments, comments, status changes, due dates
Work Package Leads get their Work Package's life: status flips, renames, lead changes, plus the meaningful moments on its measures
Project Leads see the bigger picture: Work Package status changes, escalations, and Work Package Lead changes across the project
The measures you're responsible for add their updates on top, whatever your role.
See it, act on it
Open a notification and you land where it happened. For measures, the measure opens right there, ready to edit on the spot. Open a message with several changes and you land on the list of changes, with the measure right above it. Read and unread states track where you left off, and if you open something too soon, hover over the notification and mark it as unread to come back to it later.
Why didn't I get notified?
Five rules keep the Inbox useful instead of noisy:
You never get notified about your own actions
Work Package Leads aren't pinged on routine measure status changes, only meaningful ones: a measure completed, needing support, or escalated
Date reminders (starts tomorrow, due tomorrow, due today, overdue) arrive bundled in a morning summary at 6am your time, not one by one
Quick changes arrive together: several changes to the same measure by the same person within 90 seconds arrive as one message listing what changed, and a change undone within that window drops off the list
Upper Management receives no notifications at all, by design: the final report reaches them as a PDF export outside elyvate
Good to know
This is a beta and the first version. Expect the Inbox to grow.
Report submissions and SteerCo invitations arrive by email rather than the Inbox.