Set Shortcut Notifications for Mentions and Work You Follow
Open your Shortcut notification settings to choose email frequency, then review which Stories and Epics you follow. Browser and personal Slack notifications have separate controls.
These are personal preferences. You do not receive notifications for your own actions or self-mentions, so ask a teammate to help verify the result.
Example: choose a daily digest plus immediate mentions, follow the current release Epic, and stop following obsolete work that overwhelms your inbox.
Step-by-step guide
Choose an email mode
Open profile icon > Settings > Notifications. Select Most Events, Important Events, Daily Summary and Mentions, or None according to the updates you need, then save changes.
Review followed work
Open the Stories and Epics you care about and confirm you are a Follower. Following an Epic can produce updates for every Story inside it; requester status alone is not the notification guarantee.
Configure the additional channel
For browser mentions, permit app.shortcut.com in your browser notifications. For personal Slack notifications, update/authorize the Slack integration and use its notification toggle in Shortcut settings.
Verify with another person
Ask a teammate to mention you in a harmless Story comment. Check the intended channel, then tune subscriptions rather than disabling useful alerts because unrelated work is too noisy.
Common mistakes
Testing by mentioning yourself
Shortcut suppresses self-mentions and notifications about your own changes. That test cannot establish whether another person’s mention will arrive.
Sources and verification
Based on product documentation checked on 2026-11-04. This is a documentation-based guide, not a hands-on benchmark. Features and availability can change.