--- title: How to set quiet hours and your default chat level url: https://tideswell.xyz/docs/notifications/quiet-hours-and-levels description: Set a nightly window when nothing buzzes, and choose how much chat notifies you before you tune individual channels. --- > Documentation index: fetch https://tideswell.xyz/llms.txt to discover every page before exploring further. # How to set quiet hours and your default chat level **What buzzes you**, on your account page, is where you shape what reaches your devices. Two settings do most of the work: quiet hours, and your default for channels. ## How do you set quiet hours? [#how-do-you-set-quiet-hours] Turn **Quiet hours** on and set the from and to times. They default to 22:00 to 07:00 and move in 30-minute steps. The window can wrap past midnight, which is the normal case, and it is read in **your own** timezone. That timezone is captured from the browser you last saved in. If you travel and your quiet hours seem wrong, save the settings again from a browser in your current timezone. ## What do quiet hours actually do? [#what-do-quiet-hours-actually-do] **They drop notifications rather than holding them.** A one-off ping sent at 3am is gone: it does not arrive at seven. A recurring reminder, such as a task nearing its due date, simply fires again later, so it is not lost. That sounds harsh and is the right choice. A queue of overnight buzzes arriving at breakfast is worse than the silence, and the record is in your Inbox either way. See . Quiet hours apply on top of everything else, including a channel you have set to notify you about every message. ## What is the default for channels? [#what-is-the-default-for-channels] What happens in any chat channel you have not set individually. Three choices: * **Every message.** Sensible only if you are in very few channels. * **Mentions & replies only.** The right default for almost everybody. * **Nothing.** No chat push at all, and you catch up when you look. Start at **Mentions & replies only**, then raise the level on the two or three channels that genuinely need your attention. Doing it that way round produces far fewer notifications than starting loud and muting. Setting a level on an individual channel overrides this default, per . ## Which alerts have their own switch? [#which-alerts-have-their-own-switch] Three: **Task reminders**, **Low-stock alerts** and **Notable order alerts**. Each is a hard on/off for that category on your devices. Everything else, including chat, comments, approvals and workflow notifications, is shaped by quiet hours and channel levels rather than by a per-type switch. See . ## Do these settings stop the alert entirely? [#do-these-settings-stop-the-alert-entirely] No. They silence **pushes to your devices** only. The Inbox item still arrives and any email still sends. Turning off low-stock buzzes means you find out when you look rather than when it happens, which is often exactly what you want. ## Can an admin change these for me? [#can-an-admin-change-these-for-me] No. These are personal, nobody else's are affected, and an admin cannot set yours. What an admin can do is stop a category upstream, by switching off the module it belongs to or turning off the automation that produces it. See . ## Can you set these on the phone? [#can-you-set-these-on-the-phone] Yes. The iPhone app has the same notification settings screen, and it writes the same settings as the web. Change them in either place and both follow.