Knowledge Base

HORTUS includes a notification system to keep users informed.

Notifications are the platform’s routing layer for recent activity. They are especially useful after comments, moderation changes, invitations, or object-level updates. Favourites and follows complement notifications by creating a personal awareness layer: instead of searching again from scratch, you can reopen saved people, projects, resources, tools, and searches from your own shortlist.

• Open notifications from the bell icon when you need to know what changed recently.
• Use Mark all as read to clear the visible unread state once you have processed the list.
• Use favourites to preserve a personal shortlist of people, projects, resources, tools, or saved searches.
• Use follows where available when you want updates about a person or object rather than only a bookmark.

Notifications alert you about:

• comments in discussions
• updates to followed items
• moderation results
• system events

They help you:

• resume work quickly
• avoid missing important updates

Favourites allow you to:

• save items for quick access
• build a personal shortlist

Applicable to:

• resources
• projects
• experts
• events

Following an item means:

• you subscribe to updates
• you receive notifications when it changes

Typical use:

• tracking projects
• monitoring resources
• following experts