How do I see notifications older than 30 days?

[Rob Bl]

I'm working on a project in which there was a long pause. It's now 30 days later and I'm back, trying to work through comments 30-50 days ago. As near as I can tell, Atlassian has made it IMPOSSIBLE to see notifications for those comments. Instead of letting users manage their own notification history, Atlassian has chosen to arbitrarily cut off notification history at 30 days.

Am I missing something? Or do I really have to now visit every single page in our project to see if there are any comments — instead of just being able to go through my team.atlassian.com/notifications page — because somebody at Atlassian decided users shouldn't have control over their own notification management?

[Arkadiusz Wroblewski]

Hello @Rob Bl 

Atlassian’s Cloud notification docs say notifications are automatically removed after 30 days, and older ones are only still available in email. So there is no native way to use the notification center itself as a longer-term archive.

View your Notifications  

If you want a page-based workaround, the macro to look at is Recent updates. Atlassian says it can list recently created or updated content, including comments, so it may help a bit when you need to review recent activity in a space over period of Time.

Recent updates Macro 

It is not a real replacement for old personal notifications, but it is probably the closest native workaround inside Confluence itself which you can scope to your needs.

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Hi @Rob Bl ,

Question - How do you usually handle notifications? Meaning, are you looking at them through email or through in-product/app options? 👀

The UI, for me, is a good way to keep things up-to-date, as I mainly check for the newest ones through the interface. For 'archive,' these are all stored in my email(s) under dedicated folders or labels. 👀

I just looked, and I have 60+ folders in my Outlook email and use 20+ rules that move or forward those emails to dedicated groups 😅 And we're mainly talking about notifications from 20+ different organizations and countless sites lol

Anyway, to get back on the topic, have you tried using Rovo for specific summaries? Something like this: Summarize content using Rovo 
I was wondering if a feature like this one could 'replace' the actual need to browse through a long list of notifications 🤔

Cheers,
Tobi