How to customize your notifications and settings

Jun 7, 2023 | Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Comments (13)

Get only the emails and notifications you want. It’s now easier for you to manage your settings and notification preferences. This puts you in control.

Email & On-site Notifications
You receive one email digest daily or weekly. The email digest is a summary of all the activity in the groups, blogs, and events you follow.

Discover support groups and blogs to follow
See what you are following and what you might be interested in here:

Simply click Follow to add the activity of a group or blog to your digest email.

Do you want to get an email for every post?
For some discussions, you may wish to get an email or on-site notification for every new post in real time (as they are posted). 

To get every message in your inbox or on-site notifications:

  1. Go to the discussion you're interested in.
  2. Click the bell icon in the bottom right of the first message.
  3. Select the setting you wish.
  4. Click Save Setting.

Mute a discussion
Sometimes you may wish to follow a group, but there is a specific discussion that you’re not interested in. You can stop notifications for that discussion by muting it.

Profile & Settings
In your settings, you can refine your preferences.

To find your settings

  1. Click profile image in the top right.
  2. Click Profile & Settings from the drop-down menu.
  3. Click the My Groups & Blogs tab to see groups and blogs you follow.
  4. Click the Settings tab to edit your settings. 

Settings include things like:

  • General: Edit the basics like your email, password, and language.
  • About Me: Add information about you like your name, location and contact (optional). Choose to share publicly or keep private.
  • Notifications and Preferences: Choose how you’d like to be notified about new activity.

Set your Notifications and Preferences

In the Notifications and Preference click Edit beside any section to do the following:

  • Activity Involving Me
    Choose to receive notifications when another member interacts with you and your posts. You can get an email every time someone replies to a post you’ve written, @mentions you in a post, likes a post you’ve written.
  • Activity I Have Followed Or Muted
    See Your Interests and Discussions you have followed and how you're following them
  • Digest
    Get a daily digest. By default a digest email is sent daily. You can change this to weekly or turn it off.
  • Private Messages
    Allow private messages. You can choose to turn off private messaging.
  • Disable/Enable All Email Notifications
    You can turn off all emails. Your settings will be saved when you decide to turn them back on.

If you don’t want any emails, you can rely on the on-site notifications. Visit the homepage any time to see what’s new. The homepage is your new home base.

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Interested in more newsfeed posts like this? Go to the About Connect: Who, What & Why blog.

@migizii, try this to see all your notifications.
1. Click your profile picture in the upper right.
2. Select "Notifications" from the drop-down choices.

See the picture below.

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@colleenyoung Thanks I was having trouble too but found this to help I will keep this page

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The fonts appear rather small to my old eyes. Is there a minimum font size to be used for posting?

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@engrav

The fonts appear rather small to my old eyes. Is there a minimum font size to be used for posting?

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Hello @engrav,

I've had the same problem, and this is the way I've adjusted the size of the font:

If you are on a computer/laptop you press the key that says: ctrl along with the plus sign (+) key.

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@engrav

The fonts appear rather small to my old eyes. Is there a minimum font size to be used for posting?

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@engrav, The font size is determined by your device's web browser. You can make the fonts larger by using the zoom function which is quick and hopefully easy for you. Hold down the Control key on your keyboard (Ctrl) and move the wheel on the mouse up or down. Here's more information - How to change the font size in my browser: https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000779.htm

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Hi @michey, I thought I would respond to your private message on your problem receiving online notifications in this discussion on the topic. If you click the link below it will take you to the top of the discussion and walk you through setting up your notifications.

--- How to customize your notifications and settings: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/blog/about-connect/newsfeed-post/how-to-customize-your-notifications-and-settings/.

If you are still having trouble with not getting any online notifications for the discussions you are following, can you post a reply here so that a moderator can check your account settings to see if there is a problem?

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Hi @michey, I wanted to follow up on our private message to make sure you are receiving the online notifications. Did you receive any online notifications for the Digestive Health Group this morning?

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John, I received the DIGESTIVE posts only in the Daily email dated today.
Without clicking on any of them, I went to the Notification bell and none of the DIGESTIVE posts appeared there. Thank you again for trying. Michey

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@michey

John, I received the DIGESTIVE posts only in the Daily email dated today.
Without clicking on any of them, I went to the Notification bell and none of the DIGESTIVE posts appeared there. Thank you again for trying. Michey

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@michey, I can help. Please send me an email using this form. https://connect.mayoclinic.org/contact-a-community-moderator/

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