| How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | RaeMoon | 3/19/11 1:58 PM | I know how to turn off emailed notifications of new comments for shared docs on a per-document basis. I'd like to turn off all emailed notifications by default. Currently, when my collaborators and I are working on documents together, we give feedbac |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | Bas Braams | 3/19/11 2:27 PM | That was my first thought too upon seeing the new discussion feature. Email notification turned on by default, good grief what lunacy! |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | ahab | 3/19/11 3:01 PM | That's part of the 'easy' philosophy Google has about its products. This way if you want e-mails you don't miss out one them, and if you don't want them you can turn them off. But note I agree on the lunacy of this philosophy - which b.t.w. also appl |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | Bas Braams | 3/21/11 12:12 AM | In a user's documents list items appear in boldface, according to the default settings, if they have been updated after the user last viewed them. This can only happen for shared documents. It is a beautifully unobtrusive method of notifying co-autho |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | ahab | 3/21/11 3:44 AM | Bas, Sometimes it feels as if the Google Docs team that implements these features deliberately makes them work this way to make the product less attractive. Perhaps there is a mole at work that tries to undermine the quality of the product and which |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | Teresa C. | 3/21/11 10:25 AM | Hi Ahab and Bas, I'll bring this concern up to the team. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Teresa |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | KD in ND | 3/21/11 12:28 PM | this new default is driving my students crazy, and we do not know how to turn off e-mail notifications for individual documents. can someone please tell us how? |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | Bas Braams | 3/21/11 12:38 PM | Discussions are only available for new documents (created since about March 17). The owner of the document needs to click on the little arrow next to Discussions at top right, for that document, and then go to Discussion notification settings. I'd sa |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | showson | 3/21/11 2:28 PM | Everyone in my company is amazed that this is the default. We use it like "track changes," sorta, in MS Word, as we're writers/editors. What a good idea to not have you see the comment being typed in real-time (so distracting when someone is editing |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | Bas Braams | 3/22/11 12:40 AM | "Surely, though, it would be easy enough to make it an opt-in thing and not the dang default!" Yes. And, just to hammer it in, it is my sincere opinion that these email notifications are such a bad idea, it should not even be an opt-in for any docume |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | ahab | 3/22/11 7:23 AM | There may have been a discussion in the Google Docs team whether notifications should be turned off by default - like in spreadsheets - or on - like now in newly created documents. The outcome of the discussion may have been: let's use the users (aga |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | pyromanfo | 3/25/11 7:52 AM | It lets you turn it off per-doc, but not globally. As it is now it's pretty ridiculous, it's taken a wonderful feature and turned it into annoying spam. It's horrendous. |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | pyromanfo | 3/25/11 7:54 AM | Also, when you go to disable email notifications it adds a little extra commentary there, "Not Recommended". Seriously? Who on the Google Docs team thinks this feature is so useful to people that they should be frightened when they try to turn it off |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | nstraghalis | 3/26/11 9:27 PM | I absolutely agree - I really want a universal setting for notification preferences, so I don't have to do in and set prefs for every single doc. |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | Teresa C. | 3/29/11 11:54 AM | Hi all, Thanks for taking the time to post here. Based on user feedback, we've decided to implement the ability to turn off discussion notifications as a default for your docs. I don't have an exact ETA, but I'll be sure to post back here as soon as |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | nicaguerrero | 4/8/11 9:44 AM | Hi Teresa, Does Google have any plans to be able to disable this at the Google Apps Domain level and not just the individual user level. This "discussion email notifications" feature will quickly destroy a companies email archiving capacity. Esp |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | ncitron | 4/11/11 3:31 PM | Many of my group collaborations at my university use google docs. I have noticed an abrupt decrease in the speed of google docs immediately following this new method of commenting. I far preferred the older version for two reasons: 1) real-time, text |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | RogierK | 4/13/11 5:56 AM | What everyone else said. Please delete this default, or at the very least, make it possible to change the notification setting so that you can turn it off for ALL your documents, past and future. Really, docs is wonderful in many ways, but this is no |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | Bas Braams | 4/13/11 9:12 AM | I just initiated some shared editing and found it desirable to prepare the initial version of each shared document using a blank from before the introduction of the Discussions feature. I don't want to confront 20 people new to GDocs with this email |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | Timothyjrobinson | 4/16/11 3:31 PM | This default emailing setting needs to go now. Today. Not the next roll out of features. I'm marking college essays and a student just emailed me asking to not send her an email for every comment I make on her paper. There must have been more than 30 |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | Andikki | 4/29/11 3:27 AM | I, on the other hand, would like notifications to be on by default for my small number of documents. So I think a global setting of default notifications behaviour for all documents would be very nice. All documents created/shared with you after chan |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | DaveBeaudoin | 4/30/11 10:09 AM | I primarily use the discussion feature for collaborative editing of documents. Often in real time. It's pretty rare that I want to be notified in any way beyond seeing the document in bold in my google docs homepage. Thanks for deciding to turn this |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | Dan2013 | 5/1/11 4:45 PM | Automatic email notifications should be an option to be either default on or default off for the owner of the document, but collaborators should not receive email notifications unless tagged with the @ operator. No one wants to get emails for a doc t |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | mr.quindazzi | 5/3/11 8:24 AM | Any word on this? |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | shmuel_g | 5/23/11 1:36 PM | SOLUTION SHOULD BE LIKE THE ONE WITH GOOGLE SPREADSHEETS, WHERE IT GIVES A DAILY DIGEST OF CHANGES!!! |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | mr.quindazzi | 5/27/11 7:52 AM | |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | isero | 6/9/11 1:28 AM | |
| Re: How do I turn off discussion email notifications by default for all new documents, not per-doc? | Bas Braams | 7/5/11 12:29 PM |