Notifications

ProjectPacer nudges you about three things: you're working with no timer running, a timer that looks left on, and the end of your day. Each one reaches you once, at the place that can reach you right now, and carries the button that resolves it — start the timer, stop it, log the meetings. It all lives under Settings → Notifications.

Where a nudge goes

You don't pick a channel per nudge. ProjectPacer tries them in a fixed order and stops at the first one that can reach you:

1. The desktop app, while it's running and your computer is awake and unlocked. The menu-bar app checks in every few minutes and pauses while your computer is locked or asleep, so "running" is a fact, not a guess, and a nudge moves on to Slack or your browser instead of waiting for a screen nobody is looking at.
2. Slack, as a direct message from @ProjectPacer. Slack then does its own desktop-to-phone handoff, so if you've stepped away it reaches your phone without ProjectPacer sending anything twice.
3. Your browser, as a push alert on every device you've enabled it on.

Nothing is pushed while you're active in ProjectPacer itself. The app shows it instead: the running-timer card on Track, the badge on AI Suggestions, and a banner on Track for the start nudge. The page tells you where a nudge would land right now, and a ● Live now pill marks the desktop app while it's polling.

The three nudges, and their buttons

Every nudge carries the same buttons on every channel, so none of them is a dead end that only opens the app.

• You're working, no timer running — fires when work is evident (you're at your desk, a commit, a message you sent) and nothing's tracking. When ProjectPacer can tell when this block of work began, it says so (working since 2:15 pm) and Start from 2:15 · Project starts the timer from then, on the project you tracked last — within the last four hours and never overlapping your previous entry. Otherwise Start begins now. Not today quiets it until tomorrow. After a nudge it stays quiet until a timer has run, or three hours. It never follows you to another channel: if you didn't start one, pinging your phone would just be noise.
• A timer that looks left on — the one nudge that follows you. It goes where you are first; if the timer is still running 15 minutes later it moves to the next channel, once, then once more. Stop it ends the timer at the point your activity trailed off, not when you click; Keep going leaves it. Stopping it anywhere ends the chain.
• End of day — one message when your workday ends: what you tracked, and what's waiting to review. Meetings you haven't logged live here now, not in their own alert. Log all writes the meetings it names.

Timing

• Quiet hours hold everything back overnight (10pm–7am by default). Set the window in Timing at the bottom of the page; it applies to every channel.
• Review items during the day sends things to review in batches, at most every four hours, with Log all. Off means they wait for End of day. It's off unless you turn it on.
• Send a test — the Slack and Browser rows each carry a Test link, so you can see exactly what arrives before relying on it.

Email preferences

The nudges above are in-app alerts. Separately, in the Email row of the same page, you control which emails ProjectPacer sends you, in two groups:

• Account emails — the workspace emails you can switch off. Today that's Timesheet reminders (time due, sent back, approval nudges).
• Subscriptions — the recurring scheduled reports you receive, one row each. Turn any off to drop it for your address only. Someone adds you to a report and it appears here automatically.