Notifications Settings

Notifications settings

Gubbins' Notifications & files settings control how it gets your attention — OS reminder notifications — and how it handles file attachments.

Where to find it: Settings → Notifications & files.

Reminder notifications

On an installed app, Gubbins can raise your alerts as OS notifications. Here you turn them on (granting your device's permission) and choose which lanes to receive — low stock, expiring, maintenance due, warranty due. The full behaviour is covered on the Reminder notifications page.

You can also set how in-app confirmations behave — for example, whether an action shows a toast or stays silent.

💡 Tip A toast stays on screen long enough to read: the more text it carries, the longer it lingers before dismissing itself, so a wordy message won't vanish before you've read it. You can always dismiss one early with its ✕.

ℹ️ Note The Online product lookup switch now lives with the scanner it belongs to, under Settings → Scanning & labels → Product lookup. See Barcode → product lookup.

Attachments & files

This is also where you decide what kind of attachments items may hold:

• External URLs only — links to files hosted elsewhere.
• URLs and local file pointers — also allow pointers to files on this device.

ℹ️ Note A local file pointer references a file on this device — so it may not resolve on another device you sync to. For attachments you want to travel with your data, prefer a URL or rely on the export vault, which can bundle full-resolution images.

💡 Tip Keep notifications to the lanes you actually act on — a focused stream you respond to beats a noisy one you learn to ignore.

Related pages

• Reminder notifications — how OS reminders work.
• Tags, attachments & related items — the attachments these settings govern.
• Alerts — the source of the reminders.