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title: "Mentions and notifications"
description: "Mention someone on a page and they get a notification under the bell, and an email, with a link to the exact block. Only people who can open the page are told."
canonical_url: https://docs.markdrop.in/pages/mentions-and-notifications
last_updated: 2026-11-04
prerequisites: [/pages/overview]
site: "Markdrop Docs"
index: https://docs.markdrop.in/llms.txt
---

# Mentions and notifications

When you mention someone on a page, Markdrop tells them. They see it under the bell at the top of Markdrop and get an email, and both open the page at the block that mentions them.

## Mention someone

In a page, type `/person` (or choose **Mention a person** from the `/` menu), then pick someone from your workspace. The block you mention them in gets its own link, so their notification opens the page right there.

Everyone you newly mention is notified when the page saves. That includes mentions made by an AI app through [MCP](https://docs.markdrop.in/ai/tools#notifications) and mentions that come back when you [restore a version](https://docs.markdrop.in/pages/history). The notification names whoever made the change.

Who isn't notified:

- **People who can't open the page.** A mention never tells anyone about a page they can't read. That includes a page behind a password they haven't been given.
- **You,** when you mention yourself.
- **The same person twice.** People already mentioned in the page before your change aren't notified again. Moving a mention, or removing it and putting it back within a day, doesn't notify them again either.
- **Anyone, from a visitor who isn't signed in.** Someone editing with an edit link but no account can't notify people.

Mentions in code blocks and in classic-editor documents don't notify anyone. At most 50 people are notified by one save.

## The bell

The bell sits at the top of Markdrop, next to your avatar. A badge shows how many notifications you haven't read.

Choose the bell to see them, newest first. Each one shows who did it, what they did, on which page, when, and a dot while it's unread. Choose one to open the page at that block, which is briefly highlighted. **All** and **Unread** switch the list, and **Mark all read** clears the badge. On a phone the list opens as a sheet from the bottom of the screen.

You're notified when someone:

- mentions you on a page;
- asks for your sign-off on a page;
- shares a page with you with **Notify people** ticked (see [Share with specific people](https://docs.markdrop.in/sharing/share-with-people)).

Notifications are kept for 90 days. The bell isn't shown on a workspace's own domain.

> **Note: If you lose access**
>
> A notification about a page you can no longer open stays in the list without the page's title or a link. It says "a page you can't open", and choosing it does nothing. Markdrop checks again every time you open the list and every time you choose a notification, so nothing about the page shows once your access is gone.

## Email

You also get an email when someone mentions you or asks for your sign-off, with the block that mentions you quoted and a link to it.

- **Batched.** You get at most one email per page every 10 minutes. Mentions on the same page in that time arrive together in one email.
- **Only what's still true.** Before an email goes, Markdrop checks again that you can open the page. If you've already read the notification in the app, no email is sent.
- **Shares** send their own email straight away, with the message the sender added.

### Turn mention emails off

Go to **Settings › Account › Email** and turn off **Email me when someone mentions me**, or choose **Turn off mention emails** at the bottom of any mention email. You still see mentions under the bell. Other Markdrop email, such as sign-in codes, invitations and the [weekly analytics email](https://docs.markdrop.in/analytics/weekly-email), isn't affected.

## From an AI app

AI apps connected through [MCP](https://docs.markdrop.in/ai/hosted-mcp) can work with notifications too:

- Pages they write notify the people they newly mention, the same as your own edits, in your name.
- `list_notifications` reads your notifications, and `mark_notifications_read` marks them read.
- `share_with_people` shares a page with people by email and, unless told not to, notifies them.

See [MCP tools](https://docs.markdrop.in/ai/tools#notifications).