Followers (formerly watchers) are people who are notified about comments made on a Doc page.

What you'll need

• People can be added as followers on every plan.
• Everyone, including guests, can follow Docs.
• Everyone except guests without Edit or Full permissions can add or remove followers.

When you're set as a follower on a Doc page or subpage, you're not a follower for the entire Doc. When you're set as a follower on a Doc page, you're not a follower for the parent Doc.

Add a follower to a Doc page

The person who creates the Doc page is automatically added as a follower. 

Followers are also automatically added when:

• Someone is added as an owner. 
  • If an owner is removed, they remain a follower until they're removed. 
  • The owner of the Doc page will not retroactively be added as a follower on pages created prior to the release of this feature.
• Someone is @mentioned in a comment.
• Someone is assigned a comment.

To add a follower to a Doc:

1. Open the Doc and click the comments icon in the upper right.
2. In the upper right of the comments section, click the bell icon.
   • Select Follow if you'd like to add yourself.
3. Search or browse for people or Teams to add them as followers.

Current followers have highlighted avatars.

Remove a Doc follower

When a follower is removed they're only notified when they're @mentioned in the Doc comments.

To remove a follower from a Doc:

1. Open the Doc and click the comments icon in the upper right.
2. In the upper right of the comments section, click the bell icon.
   • Select Unfollow if you want to remove yourself.
3. Remove followers by clicking their avatar.