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title: "Read and silence notifications"
description: "Open the list of everything you were sent, and switch the card and the sound off or back on."
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# Read and silence notifications

Read what you were sent after a card went missing, and switch the cards off
while you work. Learn more about
[notifications](/docs/concepts/notifications/).

## Prerequisites

- The extension installed and connected to a server. See [Install a server](/docs/install-server/).

## Read the notification list

The list holds the last 50 notifications you were sent, newest first, with the
ones you have not opened above a line and the ones you have below.

1. Open the extension's options page: the gear in the side panel's header.
2. Select **Notifications**.
3. Open a row to open its thread and mark it read, or select the button at the
   top to mark everything above the line read without opening anything.

Each row says who, what, an excerpt, which page, and how long ago.

A notification card stands for one notification or for several. Clicking a card
for several opens the same list. Clicking a card for one notification opens the
list too, unless that notification's page is already open in a tab. Then the
click brings that tab to the front, opens the thread in the page's comment
overlay, and marks the notification read, which moves it below the line in the
list.

## Turn notifications down

1. On the comment overlay's toolbar, select the bell, labeled "Notifications
   are on. Turn them off". That stops the notification card, and its sound with
   it, without leaving the page.
2. Optional: to keep the card and lose only the sound, untick **Make a sound**
   on the extension's **Settings** screen instead.

The bell is the same setting as **Tell me when somebody answers** on the
**Settings** screen, and the two stay in step. Commentware plays its own sound, because a Chrome extension notification does
not come with one.

## Check that it worked

The bell on the toolbar is crossed out and labeled "Notifications are off.
Turn them on", and **Tell me when somebody answers** on the **Settings** screen
is unticked.

## Next steps

- [Comment on a page](/docs/using/comments/): reply without telling everybody in
  the thread.