Daily digest emails only during working days and unsocial hours

Question

I received the daily digest email from Confluence on Saturday morning at 07:32.

It contained updates for changes my team members had made on Friday.

I don't work on the weekends, so it would be better if these emails were aware of my working days and hours.

For any updates made on Friday, or over the weekend, an email sent on Monday morning would be more useful so that I'll ever have only one digest email per day to look at.

It could also be useful if I could adjust the timing of the emails, e.g. not to send anything as early as 07:32 when I'm not working.

Some products I use offer quiet hours, so bringing in a similar feature to these notifications could help me to prevent unwanted emails and other notifications appearing during unsocial hours.

Marko Samuli Kirves · Answer

Hi @G subramanyam and thanks for sharing your ideas.

I see you've suggested I could address this in my email client, which I indeed already do for Jira emails to avoid duplicate notifications over multiple channels, e.g. when I've already installed a Teams app to notify me.

Outlook doesn't seem to support any rules based on the weekday or time of the day an email is received, but I suppose I could send all Confluence digest emails into a low priority folder to avoid them showing up in my primary inbox.

Alternatively, I could just stop all emails from Confluence and use the web-based "Discovery what's happening" feature on the landing page. This would defeat the purpose of my product feedback, but likely help with my work-life balance.

Thinking about it, stopping all Confluence emails is even more appealing option, as managing email rules is another distraction, which I'd rather not spend more time on, nor do I really want to spend time on emails.

I mentioned Jira integration with Teams, so now I'm curious if there is Confluence integration that would respect my working hours.

P.S. Time-based email rules would indeed be a nice feature in Outlook, but that might be a discussion for another forum.

G subramanyam · Answer

Hi @Marko Samuli Kirves welcome to the Atlassian community.

Thank you for sharing this feedback! You've hit on a very common desire among users for better control over notifications to support work-life balance.

Ideally, these digest email is designed to summarize the previous 24 hours of activity, which is why you see Friday's changes on Saturday.

Possible workarounds:

* Move Confluence daily digest emails received on Saturdays and Sundays to a specific folder (e.g., "Weekend Digests").
* If your email client supports it, mark them as read or even automatically archive them if received outside of certain hours or on weekends.