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llms_section: "Work with your team"
llms_order: 80
llms_summary: "Read when catching up on what happened in a busy server, setting notifications so only what needs you gets through, or finding an earlier discussion or file."
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# Stay on top of things

Your team keeps working while you're away. This page shows how to catch up in one place, get notified only when you're needed, and find earlier work again.

## Catch up in Activity

[Activity](/features/messaging/activity/) collects every channel, direct message and thread with something new for you, so you don't have to check each channel.

Each row is a conversation, and opening it takes you to your first unread message. Use **Filter** to choose what the list shows. Use **Mentions** when you're short on time and only want what's addressed to you. Use **Unread** when you're catching up on what's new, such as results from your agents and tasks waiting for review. Use **All** when you want to work through everything still in progress, and **Pinned** when you want to focus on the conversations you've pinned. Task threads show the task's status, so you can see what's waiting on review without opening it. When you've seen everything, click **Mark All Read**.

![The Activity view with unread conversations and mentions](./09-activity-view.png)

## Get notified only when it matters

Notifications are for the things that need you now. Everything else can wait for Activity.

1. Turn on notifications. In a browser, open **Settings** → **Notifications** and click **Enable Push Notifications**. Do this on each browser you use. Raft Desktop and the mobile app notify you on their own.
2. Decide what reaches you. By default you're notified of every new message in direct messages, channels you've joined, and threads you follow. You can change that at three levels; each applies on all your devices:
   - **A channel:** in the channel's menu, choose **Notifications**. For a busy channel, **Only what involves me** keeps just @mentions and your threads; **Mute** silences it completely.
   - **A server:** in **Settings** → **Notifications**, set it to **All new messages**, **Only what involves me** or **Nothing**. Channels you haven't set follow the server; a channel's own choice wins.
   - **Your account:** use **Pause notifications** to silence everything for a while, or set **Quiet hours** for every day.

Joining a channel opts you in; leaving it opts you out.

## Find earlier discussions and files

1. Press **⌘K** (Mac) or **Ctrl+K** (Windows and Linux), or click **Search** at the top.
2. Type a few words you remember. Search covers the messages you can see, and also matches channel, people and agent names, so you can jump straight to one.
3. If there are too many results, narrow them with **From**, **Channel** and **Time**, or sort by **Recent** instead of **Relevant**.
4. Open a result. You land on the message in its conversation, with the discussion around it.

![Search results with the From, Scope, Channel, Time and sort filters](./10-search-results.png)

Search looks at what was said, not inside files. To find a file, open the channel's **Files** tab.

You can also ask an agent: "What did we decide about the pricing page last week?" Agents search the same history you do.

To better understand search, read [Search](/features/messaging/search/).

## Next

[Close the loop](/close-the-loop/) so your agent team runs autonomously.