Trello: Can we please have a feature to disable the bell & tab notifications

[Michelle Retzlaff]

I'd like to keep my email notificaitons as they are, but I want the bell icon on the web app to not show notifications (i.e. be red) or the tab title.

It's incredible stressful to me and interrupts my workflow when clients post new comments etc. - instead, I'd like to use the email notifications to periodically review my notifications. 

[DiMaggio Tucci]

@Michelle Retzlaff 

This works for the browser version on a desktop computer.

It's not the most ideal, but if you open the Developer Console (the exact instructions to get there depend on the browser you use) in your browser, you can enter this command:

document.querySelector("[data-testid=\"header-notifications-button\"]").remove()

And you won't get anymore notifications from the bell or browser tab until Trello refreshes. Emails are unaffected.

After testing this, you can then use a tool like tampermonkey to make it permanent. It will essentially put in that command for you every time you run Trello.

It's a hacky solution, but I tested it and it worked for me. I have not tested tampermonkey, though, just putting in the command myself.

This command essentially unloads and removes the button from your view, so you cannot see it. The red dot in the tab relies on this button being there in order to know when to show, so it won't bother you, either.

The command only removes the visuals from your view, no actual editing is happening on Trello's end, so the notifications will still "exist". They just won't be visible to you, either on the page or in the tab.

Again, you need another tool to make this permanent instead of something you have to do each time the page refreshes.

If you want the bell back, then you have to disable whatever tool you're using and reload the page, and it will work like normal again.

I wish I knew of a more "native" way to make it happen. The solution I provided earlier is more "native" but it has some edge cases, as I described. This solution has no edge cases, but it involves a third party tool to make it viable.

I agree there should be a Trello feature for this, instead. Perhaps you might consider contacting the Trello team directly and pursuing a feature request? 

https://support.atlassian.com/trello/docs/submitting-feature-requests-for-trello/

[DiMaggio Tucci]

Sorry; I didn't mean to delete this.

I had suggested you not set Due Date Reminders.

[Michelle Retzlaff]

No, this isn't just about due dates. I mean any and all notifications from e.g clients' activities on any of my boards. I still want to get the notifications, but only by email and when looking at that specific board. 

[DiMaggio Tucci]

My bad! Still, you can do what I suggested and then use automations to email you whenever the actions you want to notify you take place, including (to my knowledge) everything the bell would notify you about.

For similar reasons, I totally bypass Trello's notifications and set up my own. I get notified my way (I actually use Slack myself instead of email) and only about the things I want to be notified about. That bell icon never gets touched.

For what it's worth, I also don't enable Desktop Notifications, in case you're getting those.

I never "watch" cards to avoid those notifications.

From a quick look, I'm not sure of another way to get the bell to not "ring".

Don't know if that helps. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[Michelle Retzlaff]

I don't see how that would address my problem. 

I have absolutely no issue with the email notifications as they are. I don't have desktop notifications enabled (I'd go crazy if I did!). 

I obviously have to watch lists/cards and also get mentioned on cards because that's how my clients communicate with me. I still need that to happen.

I just want to get rid of the red bell and the notification bubble in the browser tab. 

[DiMaggio Tucci]

@Michelle Retzlaff It addressed it because you DON'T have to watch cards to get those notifications anymore; that's the point of my solution. You would get emails because you set the automations to do the emailing for you, but, as far as Trello is concerned, there's nothing to notify you about, so the bell stops.

But there is complexity to my solution, and, upon further review, some edge cases, so maybe it wouldn't be the best for you anyways.

One edge case I thought of is it appears certain types of notifications will still get triggered even if you don't watch cards, as it doesn't appear there is a way to get around those.

My solution was just how I did it. I had the exact same problem (I don't like the bell notifications; I just want notifications through some other method).

But I also don't have people, for instance, tagging my name in comments. So that's a case I hadn't thought of. Those notifications happen regardless of if you're watching the card or not.

So, this solution won't help with that. There's another (hacky) solution. It works, but it's a bit tedious, to be honest. I've posted a second answer. From my searching Trello settings and the internet it's the best I've found for now. I'll let you know if that changes.

[DiMaggio Tucci]

Second solution posted.

[Michelle Retzlaff]

Yes, it's for Trello, apologies for posting it in the wrong category, this is where I was redirected when logging in from Trello.

[Tomislav Tobijas _Koios_]

No worries @Michelle Retzlaff 

I've moved the question now, so hopefully some Trello experts will chime in here :) 

[Michelle Retzlaff]

Thank you!

[Tomislav Tobijas _Koios_]

Hi @Michelle Retzlaff ,

Is this question related to Trello? I'm asking as it landed in Jira Service Management product group. If it's Trello-related, I can move this question to a designated community group.

For Trello, I'm not sure if disabling in-product notifications is possible as it is for Jira if you navigate to Profile > Personal settings > Notifications.

If something like this doesn't exist within Trello, you could maybe check if there's open feature suggestion related to more granular notification configuration: project=TRELLO AND type=Suggestion AND statusCategory!=Done and text ~ "notifications" 

Cheers,
Tobi