Many of you will relate to this – when creating a new Monday board where I assign myself to each item, I end up drowning in email notifications. If I’ve assigned myself, then no need to alert myself! If someone ELSE assigns me, that’s a different story and I do want to get notified about that. Could the Monday team allow us to customize email notifications to only get notified when assigned or subscribed by another person? Thanks!
Have you been able to figure out a solution? this would be great! Or if someone else changes a status then notify me, but if I change a status then don’t notify me.
This feels like it would be something able to be setup in the notification settings, the ability to turn off ‘self-notifications’… but also like something that should be enabled by default (i.e. default being no self-notifications).
If someone wants to receive the emails, then they can go ahead and disable the setting.
Did anyone figure this out? Thanks!
Any update on this? It is very annoying to get notified about actions i take myself.
Hey Max! For the board where you’re receiving these notifications. Are there any automation recipes that appear if you click here?
I’m asking because default notifications should not notify you for changes that your own user makes (e.g. assigning yourself an item or changing a status). With this in mind, it sounds like the board must have an automation triggering these emails, which these automations can be turned off. Let me know 
Yes I have automations to add myself to tasks added to my own to do list. I do not want to turn this off.
Is there a way to stop the notifications?
Hey Max, could you please send me a screenshot of the email notification that you’d like to turn off, as well as a screenshot of the automations you have set up on the board? I want to take a look at them to better understand your setup and determine the best option.
If you prefer not to share it openly in the thread, please feel free to send it to me via direct message.
I could be wrong, but it sounds like we are looking for a way to disable notifications for item assignments when we ourselves are making the assignment. I still want to get notifications when other people assign me to tasks.
This included automations that i trigger, like item default values. Every item i create on a board automatically assigns me or another project manger to an item from the board default values menu. this is to help trigger other notifications later in the project. I could turn off board notifications when creating a long list of tasks, but I’m afraid that i often forget to turn them back on sometimes.
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I have the same issue - the only way around that I have found is to turn off the Automation “when as item is created assign myself as PERSON”.
I would like the Automation to automatically assign me as working in the item - but do NOT want to receive a message (in 3 locations) each time I assign myself to an item - would love save myself 1 extra click (many times per day).
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yes! It drives me nuts that once I create a new board, start adding tasks and assign them to myself (or create an automation to add me as the “owner” (field) upon new item creation). I ended up with 10s of task assignment notifications. I turn off notifications now when I’m creating tasks at the start, but I don’t want to keep doing this - there must be a way to turn of notifications for things we assign to ourselves. I already know I’m assigning it. Thanks for asking this one!