Notifications in IcloneU are deliberately simple: there's one place they appear — the bell icon in the top toolbar — and a single bulk control to clear them. This guide walks through what the bell shows you and the events that trigger it. It also sets one honest expectation up front, because the help-center card that brought you here promises more than the product offers today: there are no settings to choose which events notify you, no email or push toggles, and no daily-digest options. Notifications are in-app only, and everyone gets the same set.
Despite the title "Notification preferences" on the help-center card, IcloneU has no preferences surface for notifications. This is the honest "how notifications actually work" guide. If you came looking for per-event toggles or email routing, jump to There are no notification settings (yet) — that section explains exactly where they aren't.
The bell icon and the panel
The bell lives in the top toolbar on every page, next to the search box. When you have unread notifications it carries a red unread-count badge. Clicking the bell opens the Notifications panel.
Find the bell in the top toolbar
Look to the top-right area of any page, near the search box. A red badge with a number means you have that many unread notifications waiting.
Click it to open the Notifications panel
The panel header reads Notifications, with a Dismiss all action at the top right. Entries are grouped under age headers — for example Older for entries from days ago.
Read an entry
Each entry shows an icon, a bold title, a body line naming the object and what happened, a relative timestamp (such as "6d ago"), and — for actionable events — a button that jumps you straight to the relevant surface.
If you ignore the bell, the dashboard's Today's focus card still surfaces the count — it lists "N unread notifications" with an Open shortcut to the same panel. So notifications reach you even without opening the bell.
What triggers a notification
The events seen in this account so far are Knowledge-pipeline events — things that happen as a Knowledge source is processed. The panel is the home for whatever the platform emits, so other event types may appear over time, but these are the ones observed to date:
| Title | What it means | Action button |
|---|---|---|
| Processing complete | A Knowledge source finished indexing — its content is ready for your Clones to use | View Knowledge |
| Discovery complete | A website crawl found pages and is waiting for you to review and select which to add | Review Items |
The action button deep-links to the right place: View Knowledge opens the Knowledge page, and Review Items takes you to the discovered-items review step so you can approve the pages a crawl found. The detailed, per-library log of the same pipeline lives on the Activity sub-tab — a notification is the lightweight cross-surface ping that something there finished.
Low on units? IcloneU warns you through this same bell as your balance approaches zero — so the bell is also the early-warning channel for the thing most likely to make a Clone fall silent. See Understanding Clone response limits.
Notifications outlive the things they point at
Notification entries are independent of their source objects. Deleting the object does not retract its past notifications — an entry about a Knowledge library stays in the panel, action button and all, even after that library is gone.
Don't be surprised by a notification that points at something that no longer exists. Verified live: a deleted test library's Processing complete and Discovery complete entries were still listed days later, with their action buttons still rendered, while the Knowledge page showed no such library. Clicking such a button simply lands you on a surface where the original item isn't there anymore — it's harmless. Use Dismiss all to clear stale entries.
Clearing notifications
The badge count persists across pages and sessions — it survives navigating around the app and even logging out and back in, rather than clearing the moment you open the panel. You clear notifications deliberately, and there's exactly one bulk control for it:
Open the bell panel
Click the bell in the top toolbar to open Notifications.
Click Dismiss all
The Dismiss all action at the top right clears the list and resets the badge. There's no per-event mute and no way to stop future entries from arriving — but they accumulate quietly as a badge count, with no pop-ups or interruptions.
Dismissing is about your unread count, not the underlying events. The work a notification reported — a source finishing, a crawl awaiting review — already happened (or is still waiting) regardless of whether you dismiss the ping. For a crawl that's still waiting at Review Items, dismissing the notification doesn't approve the pages; you still need to review them on the Knowledge page.
There are no notification settings (yet)
This is the part the help-center card oversells, so here it is plainly: as of this writing there is no notification-preferences surface anywhere in IcloneU. There are no per-event-type toggles, no email or push routing, and no daily-digest options. The platform decides what to notify, every account gets the same set in-app, and you manage them by acting on them or dismissing them.
If you went looking, here's where these settings would plausibly live — and don't:
- Account Settings has four sub-tabs — Your details, Billing, Billing preferences and Options — and none of them covers notifications. (Options governs the account's reply behaviour — handover timeout and reply timing — not notifications.)
- The avatar menu (top-right) offers Account settings, Team, Plan and Log out — there's no notifications entry.
- The bell panel itself has no settings or gear icon — just the entry list and Dismiss all.
Treat per-event preferences or email routing as a feature request to raise with your IcloneU contact, not a setting you've failed to find. For now, the levers you do have are: act on a notification via its button, or clear the lot with Dismiss all.
Frequently asked
Not today. IcloneU notifications are in-app only, delivered through the bell icon in the top toolbar. There's no email or push routing and no digest setting — despite what the help-center card suggests. Separately, billing notifications do go to email, but that's invoicing mail driven by the Billing preferences tab, not these event notifications.
There's no mute or per-event toggle. You can't prevent future entries from arriving, but they're unobtrusive — a badge count, never a pop-up. To clear what's there, open the bell panel and click Dismiss all.
There aren't any. Account Settings (Your details / Billing / Billing preferences / Options), the avatar menu (Account settings / Team / Plan / Log out) and the bell panel were each checked — none has a notifications-preferences control. The panel's only action is Dismiss all.
No. Notifications are independent of their source objects, so an entry stays in the panel after the object it referenced is gone, action button and all. It's harmless — clicking it just lands on a surface where the item no longer exists. Dismiss all clears stale entries.
The observed event vocabulary is Knowledge-centric — Processing complete and Discovery complete. Other event types may exist, but there's no setting that would have switched a notification on or off, so a missing notification isn't a preference you toggled. Check the relevant surface directly — for Knowledge, the Activity sub-tab is the authoritative per-library log.
Last updated June 12, 2026 · Account & Settings
