[New Feature Thread] Design notification bubble at bottom of screen & notification list

[ri0nardo]

Have notifications popup on the bottom of the screen on anything general.

• Weather report
• Weather if it be tornado, hurricane, rainstorm
• Events in your area
• To water a tree (if its young)
• To perform maintenance on a tree

[ri0nardo]

@zoobot I want to mock up the notification list. I am not sure if we even need it and will rely on email notifications? But if we want a notification system, what do we want to list as a reminder?

Mason is looking to add the vertical menu so I want to integrate as much as possible into the menu.

[zoobot]

@zoobot I want to mock up the notification list. I am not sure if we even need it and will rely on email notifications? But if we want a notification system, what do we want to list as a reminder?

@ri0nardo
Just to double check, Is this a settings page to turn on and off specific notifications or the notifications themselves?
Do we have a mock of a settings page for which notifications can be turned on/off?

Our first plan is to use email for watering/weather related reminders.
Any other notifications could be in this for now.
It would be good to start using Twilio as well at some point for txt notifications, though that will cost $$.

Assuming the notifications themselves, here's some ideas:

• Tree watering reminders
• Weather events that would require special watering
• If someone else liked or adopted a tree the user planted.
• If someone else liked or adopted a tree the user also liked or adopted?
• If someone else did maintenance on a tree the user had previously maintained?
• When the user's tree planting group is having an event
• Prompting user when it is good planting season(before the rainy season in California)

@njason thoughts on this?

[ri0nardo]

@zoobot I want to mock up the notification list. I am not sure if we even need it and will rely on email notifications? But if we want a notification system, what do we want to list as a reminder?

@ri0nardo Just to double check, Is this a settings page to turn on and off specific notifications or the notifications themselves? Do we have a mock of a settings page for which notifications can be turned on/off?

So I have designed a settings page that is to be built. Its very minimal, so the person building it get most of the general things onto a settings section. We also discussed deleting an account, so I went ahead to design it. There is a notifications section where users can turn off or on certain notifications they want to attention from. wtt_front #279

Our first plan is to use email for watering/weather related reminders. Any other notifications could be in this for now. It would be good to start using Twilio as well at some point for txt notifications, though that will cost $$.

I am not familiar with notifications, but at this moment emails do seem to be the best route as we don't even ask for phone numbers when settings up an account. If we can avoid text notifications, thats probably the best route.

[njason]

Sounds good to me, the users will need to be able to unsubscribe from the watering notifications somehow so this is a good way to go about it. We will need a new DB table to hold notification settings I think

[zoobot]

We will need a new DB table to hold notification settings I think

Good idea!
I added an issue, feel free to assign yourself if you are interested.
waterthetrees/wtt_db#52