Google Chat’s newest setting dares you to embrace notification overload

Google Chatis the default messaging app for any enterprise-level Workspace customer who doesn’t want to spend extra on adedicated communications utilityreliant on Workspace integrations, such as Slack. Although you might miss out on quality-of-life features, Chat has remained contemporary with constant effort from developers, which is also evident in its latest change which adds granular customization for notification settings.

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While platforms like Slack offer highly personalizable notification settings ,Google Chat has been lacking a basic degree of customizability. In aWorkspace Blog post, the company just announced those days are now behind us because updated notification settings are here, even though enabling some settings might smother you with constant notifications, depending on how many messages are exchanged in your workspace.

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Pick what you’re alerted about

Within Google Chat, you have spaces, akin to channels in Slacks, which serve as topical discussion groups. With the new notification settings, you may chooseNoneto quietly wrap up work without distracting notifications, or you may pick the minimalisticFor yousetting. It alerts you every time someone tags you or when threads you follow receive new replies.

Things get more noisy with theMain conversationnotifications, which send alerts for everything theFor youoption covers, plus every new main conversation message. TheAllsetting will be a no-holds-barred notification fest with alerts coming in for every new message, threaded or otherwise. Google believes it will help businesses stay on top of things if they use Google Chat for high-traffic applications like customer support, but we’d recommend thinking twice before you use this option.