"The Notifications tab: your full alert inbox"

What the Notifications tab is

Verinode sends you alerts as things happen: a decision step comes due, a teammate replies to a survey, a certification is about to expire, a document finishes processing. Most of the time you see these as they arrive, in the bell dropdown in the top navigation. The Notifications tab is the other half of that system, the complete, permanent record of every alert Verinode has ever sent you, in one table, with no expiry.

Where the bell shows what is new, the Notifications tab shows everything, unread, read, dismissed, and even alerts that are scheduled to arrive in the future but have not fired yet. It exists so you can audit what Verinode has told you, catch something you dismissed too quickly, or see what is queued to land later this week.

Where to find it

Open Vault from the sidebar, under the My Data section, at iq.verinode.ai/data. Vault carries an attention badge when something needs review; My Data groups Vault together with Connect (where your data flows in from) and Forms (what Verinode collects from other people).

Inside Vault, four tabs run across the top: Uploads, Tracking, Lists, and Notifications. Open Notifications.

What the tab shows

The filter bar

At the top of the tab, a search box and two dropdown filters:

• Search: a free-text box, placeholder "Search notifications…". It matches against the notification's title and its body text, so searching "certificate" surfaces every alert that mentions one, regardless of category.
• State dropdown: filters by where an alert sits in its lifecycle. The options are All states, Unread, Read, Scheduled, and Dismissed. The All states, Unread, Scheduled, and Dismissed options each show a live count in parentheses next to the label, for example "Unread (3)", so you can see at a glance how many alerts sit in each bucket without opening the dropdown.
• Category dropdown: filters by what kind of alert it is. The first option is always All categories; below it, every category present in your inbox appears as its own entry, humanized into plain words. Verinode alerts you across a wide range of categories: decision reminders and decision-lifecycle updates, survey responses and low-rating flags, certification and OSHA-filing renewals, vendor renewals, ingestion updates, account notices, network playbooks pushed from HQ, and more. An alert with no category set is grouped under General.

The table

Each row is one alert. Six columns:

• Notification: the alert's title in bold, with a short excerpt of its body text underneath (clipped to two lines). If the alert links somewhere in the product, for example a specific decision or a job, the title is a clickable link in copper on hover; if it doesn't link anywhere, it's plain text.
• Category: a rounded pill showing the humanized category, the same vocabulary as the category filter above.
• State: a colored pill showing where the alert sits right now:

- Unread (copper, with a solid dot): Verinode has sent this and you have not opened or marked it read yet. - Read (green): you have already seen this one. - Scheduled (amber, outlined): this alert has not gone out yet; it is queued for a future time. - Dismissed (grey): you explicitly cleared this one from the dropdown.

• Channel: where the alert was or will be delivered, In-app, Email, or In-app + Email for alerts sent both ways. Some alerts are email-only and never show a badge in the bell dropdown; the Notifications tab is where you can confirm they went out, since it lists email-only alerts too, for full transparency into what left your inbox versus what showed up inside the product.
• When: for a scheduled alert, a countdown to when it will fire ("in 3h", "in 2d", or "due now" once its time has passed). For every other state, how long ago it arrived ("just now", "14m ago", "3h ago", "2d ago", or a date once it's more than a week old).
• Actions: up to three icon buttons on the right, only the ones that apply to that row:

- A checkmark, "Mark as read": appears only on unread rows. Clicking it flips the alert to read immediately; you do not need to open it. - An arrow, "Open": appears when the alert links somewhere in the product. Clicking it navigates you there. - An X, "Dismiss": appears on every row that isn't already dismissed. Clicking it clears the alert from your inbox permanently; it moves to the Dismissed state and drops out of the bell dropdown, but stays visible here in the full audit trail.

Read and dismissed rows render at reduced opacity in the table, so your eye is drawn to what's still live: unread and scheduled rows.

Both Mark as read and Dismiss apply instantly in the table (you see the state pill change right away) while Verinode saves the change in the background. If you dismiss an alert that came from an HQ broadcast, Verinode also records that you have seen it, which is how HQ networks can see broadcast read-rates on their side without exposing anything else about your account.

How to use it

1. 1Open Vault in the sidebar, then the Notifications tab.
2. 2Use the State dropdown to jump straight to Unread if you just want to clear a backlog, or Scheduled to see what's coming.
3. 3Use the Category dropdown when you only care about one kind of alert, for example filtering to certification or OSHA-filing renewals ahead of a compliance review.
4. 4Search by keyword if you remember roughly what an alert said but not when it arrived.
5. 5Mark rows read or dismiss them individually as you work through the list. There's no bulk action here; use the bell dropdown's "Mark all as read" if you want to clear everything at once instead of row by row.

Empty states

If your inbox has no alerts at all, the tab reads:

Notifications appear as Verinode flags things worth your attention

Underneath, three examples of what will show up once they do:

• Decision reminders fire when a step is due
• Survey responses ping you when a teammate replies
• Scheduled emails queue here before they go out

If you have alerts but your current search or filter combination matches none of them, the tab instead reads:

No notifications match these filters

with a single suggestion underneath: "Try clearing the search or switching the state filter."

Neither empty state is an error. The first means Verinode hasn't had a reason to alert you yet; alerts start appearing as decisions, surveys, certifications, and documents move through the platform. The second just means your filters are too narrow for what's currently in your inbox.

Related reading

• The decision workspace: where decision-reminder alerts point back to.
• The Feed: the daily intake surface that many of these same events also appear in.
• Forwarding documents: one of the ways ingestion alerts get triggered in the first place.
• Connecting your data: how Verinode's data sources feed the events behind these notifications.

Data sources