§21 NOTIFICATIONS¶
OVERVIEW¶
The Notifications inbox is where everything Tapeboard knows about your tickers lands. Price alerts, watchlist movers, simulator fills, earnings, halts, digests — one feed, newest first, reverse-chronological. Click a row to open its context; the row is marked read at the same time.
The notifications inbox
The unread count in the header bell and the inbox page are the same number because they read the same stream. If the bell says 6, /notifications has 6 unread rows.
Open it: /notifications, or click the bell in the top header.
Path: /notifications
Tier: Free — the inbox is universal; gating occurs at the source feature, not the inbox itself.
Note
Read-state syncs to your account. Mark a row read on one device and it is read on all devices. The unread badge in the sidebar refreshes on a short polling interval and may lag the inbox by up to ~30 seconds.
FEATURES¶
What Lands Here¶
Every kind that can reach a user today:
| Kind | What it is | Click-through |
|---|---|---|
alert |
One of your alerts fired | the ticker |
halt |
A watchlisted symbol halted | the ticker |
scanner |
Watchlist mover alert (2-3x volume or a big daily move) | the symbol page |
earnings / earnings_reminder |
Results just published, or reminder of today's print | the ticker + Calendar |
digest |
Daily watchlist summary | your watchlist |
sim_fill / sim_return |
Simulator fills and summaries | the simulator |
news |
Headline links on your tickers | the article |
economic |
Calendar release prints | the economic page |
options_flow |
Options-flow detections | (in-app) |
Note
Anything that would have pushed to your device but was suppressed by quiet hours, a muted symbol, or a master mute still lands in the inbox as a row — the inbox is the audit trail; the push channel is the battery of alerts.
Row Fields¶
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
id |
Server-generated row identifier |
kind |
One of the kinds listed above |
title |
Short headline — e.g. AAPL crossed $200 |
body |
One- or two-line context — e.g. Last 200.15, threshold 200.00, repeating: yes |
url |
Click-through destination — optional; some rows are read-only |
symbol |
Ticker if applicable; null for market-wide rows |
read_at |
ISO timestamp or null — drives the unread chip and row background color |
created_at |
ISO timestamp; the primary sort key |
Limits and Retention¶
| Property | Detail |
|---|---|
| Page load | Up to 200 newest rows; older history loads on scroll |
| Retention | Indefinite — no automatic expiration |
| Deletion | Per-row trash icon, or bulk Clear |
| History recovery | None — Clear is destructive and irreversible |
HOW TO USE¶
Working the Inbox¶
- Filter chips at the top narrow to a kind: All | and each one above.
- Click a row — opens the underlying ticker/page and marks it read.
- Mark all read — clears the badge across devices.
- Trash icon — deletes one row; the underlying rule (if it was an alert) is untouched.
- Clear all — empties the inbox (confirmation; no undo).
Tip
Use the inbox as an end-of-session sweep. Filter by kind, click into the rows that matter, and use Clear all to reset before the next session. Pre-market, check economic rows for overnight calendar releases before the open.
The Sidebar Bell¶
Same stream, same count, 15 rows deep. Clicking a row there does the same as clicking it on the page: opens the link, marks it read. If you only ever clear one feed, this is the one to keep an eye on.
Related¶
| Setting | Location |
|---|---|
| Alerts | /settings/alerts — where the rules live |
| Scanner | /scanner — where the mover watchlist alerts start |
| Settings | Settings — the delivery matrix and quiet hours |
| Options Flow | /options-flow — the options side coming through here |
Note
Browser push notifications are a separate channel from the inbox. An inbox row is always written regardless of whether the OS-level push succeeded. Notifications generated inside a configured quiet-hours window still land in the inbox but skip the device push.
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS¶
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| None defined | — |
Tip
There is no keyboard shortcut to open /notifications directly. Navigate to it via the sidebar bell icon or by typing the path into the address bar.
TROUBLESHOOTING¶
A deleted notification reappeared.
Deleting a notification does not disarm the underlying rule. If the alert has repeating: true and the condition crosses again, a new row is written. To stop re-firing, delete the rule in /settings/alerts, not the notification.
Clear removed a notification I needed.
There is no undo. The inbox row is permanently deleted. The underlying alert rule is intact and will fire again the next time the condition triggers, but the historical row cannot be recovered.
The body shows Last 200.15, threshold 200.00 but the chart price is now below the threshold.
Alerts fire on the cross, not on a holding condition. The price moved through the threshold at the moment the notification was written; subsequent price movement does not alter or retract the notification.