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# Google Docs: Turn OFF Useless Notifications
- URL: https://www.jeffsu.org/productivity-ping-44/
- Published: 2022-09-18T03:12:55.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-05T13:12:48.000Z
- Description: #44
- Author: Jeff
- Tags: #newsletter, Google Docs, Gmail

## ⚙️ Major Feature Update

As a paid subscriber, you can now **comment directly** on all my posts by viewing in browser. Click “View Online” to give it a try!

## 🤔 Onto this week’s tip

- Turn off **irrelevant** notifications you receive in Gmail when an edit is made in Google Docs!

## 🤷🏻 When should I use this?

1. It can be **super** annoying to receive notifications whenever someone makes an edit in a Google Doc that you own
2. Yes you want to be notified when someone comments at you but what if they’re just adding a comment for themselves or “@” someone else?
3. You can now turn off irrelevant notifications from within the Gmail notification directly

## 📸 Instructions

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2022/09/image-15.png)

Click "Notification Setting" from within the Gmail notification

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2022/09/image-17.png)

These are my current settings

## ⌨️ Keyboard shortcut

- From within Google Docs, press “CMD+OPT+SHIFT+A” to open comments tab (yes 4 keys at once 😅)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2022/09/image-18.png)

You can open the comments tab with "CMD+OPT+SHIFT+A" and close with "ESC" key

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