Apricity keeps you aware of what's changing in your palace — especially useful when multiple AI agents (and you) are all writing to the same memory store. The notification bell tells you who did what.

The 🔔 bell in the top bar surfaces recently created and updated memories. A red badge shows how many are unseen, and the bell gently swings when new ones arrive.

Each notification row shows:

• The originating model's avatar — Claude, Codex, Gemini, etc., each in its own brand colour, so you can tell at a glance which agent wrote it.
• A created vs updated distinction — Apricity honestly separates new memories from revisions of existing ones, rather than lumping them together.
• The memory title, and a relative timestamp.

Click a notification to open that memory. Use Mark all as seen to clear the badge.

Separately from the bell, memories that changed recently get a subtle right-edge accent tint on their card (and a marker in the Detail meta strip). The marker clears once you've viewed the memory — so the tint is always "stuff you haven't looked at yet." There's a short, tasteful drain animation when it clears.

Apricity can poll for changes in the background so the bell stays current without a manual reload:

• Polling pauses when the browser tab is hidden (no wasted requests in the background).
• Choose the interval in Settings → Notifications → Polling interval (15 / 30 / 60 seconds).

New notifications can play a short sound:

• Toggle it with Settings → Notifications → Mute notification sound.
• There are distinct success and error tones (errors — e.g. a failed save — sound different from normal updates).
• Browsers block audio until you interact with the page; Apricity unlocks the audio context on your first click/keypress, so the first sound may wait for that gesture.

Want quiet? Settings → Notifications → Suppress notifications turns the whole system off (no bell updates, no sound) until you re-enable it.

If you reach Apricity from more than one device on your network, dismissing a notification is synced server-side — marking something seen on your laptop clears it on your phone too. (Seen-state lives in a server file, not just browser localStorage.)

Settings → Notifications → Test notification fires a sample notification so you can confirm the bell, sound, and polling are all wired up the way you expect.

Next: Settings & Personalization .