# Your Notification Helper (For Everyone, Even 5-Year-Olds!)

## What is this thing?

You save cool links you find on the internet, right? Every once in a while, your website makes a big fun post that shows off all the links you saved. That's called a **roundup**.

A **notification** is just a tiny note that says: *"Hey! A new roundup just happened!"* You can have that little note sent to lots of different places, so you (or your friends) find out right away.

Think of it like this: your website is a friendly mail carrier. Every so often it writes a little note and asks you, "Where should I deliver this?"

## Where can the note go?

You get to pick where your little notes are delivered. Here are all the mailboxes you can choose from:

- **Email** — like a letter that lands in your mailbox at home. 📬
- **Discord** — like dropping a message into your favorite chat room with friends.
- **Slack** — like passing a note to your team at school or work.
- **Telegram** — another chat room, just a different app for it.
- **Mastodon** — like shouting "guess what happened!" where everyone walking by can hear.

You don't have to pick just one. You can turn on as many as you like!

## How do you turn one on?

1. Go find the notifications area (it looks like little tabs, one for each place, like Email, Discord, Slack, and so on).
2. Click the tab for the place you want.
3. Flip the little switch to turn it ON.
4. Fill in the boxes it asks for — things like your email address, or a special code that tells your website which chat room to use.
5. Click **Save**.

That's it! That mailbox is ready.

## The "Send a Test" button

See a button that says something like **Send Test**? Press it!

It's like practicing before the real thing — your website sends a *pretend* note just to make sure it knows the way. If the test note shows up where you expected, hooray, you did it right! If it doesn't show up, you probably need to fix one of the boxes you filled in.

## What happens after that?

Once everything is turned on and saved, you don't have to do anything else. When your website makes a new roundup post, it will **automatically** send the little notes to every mailbox you turned on — all by itself, like magic! You don't need to click any buttons for that part.

## Uh oh, something went wrong

Sometimes a note has trouble getting delivered — maybe the mailbox address was typed wrong. When that happens, a little red message pops up at the top of your website's control room (the admin dashboard) to let you know.

Don't worry! It's not scary. It's just your website politely saying, "One of your notes couldn't be delivered, you might want to check that box again." When you're done reading it, just click the little **X** and it goes away.

## The Super Simple Recap

- Your website saves your links and makes a roundup post sometimes.
- A notification is a tiny note that says "it happened!"
- You choose which mailboxes get the note: Email, Discord, Slack, Telegram, or Mastodon.
- Press **Send Test** first to make sure it works.
- After that, notes get delivered all by themselves — no extra clicking needed.
- If something breaks, a friendly red message tells you, and you can click X to make it go away.

You did it! Now you know how notifications work. 🎉
