Watchers are people who are notified about comments made on a Doc page.
What you'll need
- People can be added as watchers on every plan.
- Everyone, including guests, can watch Docs.
- Everyone except guests without Edit or Full permissions can add or remove watchers.
When you're set as a watcher on a Doc page or subpage, you're not a watcher for the entire Doc. When you're set as a watcher on a Doc page, you're not a watcher for the parent Doc.
Add a watcher to a Doc page
The person who creates the Doc page is automatically added as a watcher.
Watchers are also automatically added when:
- Someone is added as an owner.
- If an owner is removed, they remain a watcher until they're removed as a watcher.
- The owner of the Doc page will not retroactively be added as a watcher on pages created prior to the release of this feature.
- Someone is @mentioned in a comment.
- Someone is assigned a comment.
To add a watcher to a Doc:
- Open the Doc and click the comments icon in the upper right.
- In the upper right of the comments section, click the bell icon.
- Select Watch if you'd like to add yourself.
- Search or browse for people or Teams to add as watchers
Current watchers have highlighted avatars.
Remove a Doc watcher
When a watcher is removed they're only notified when they're @mentioned in the Doc comments.
To remove a watcher from a Doc:
- Open the Doc and click the comments icon in the upper right.
- In the upper right of the comments section, click the bell icon.
- Select Unwatch if you want to remove yourself.
- Remove watchers by clicking their avatar.