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Choosing What Clicking a Notification Does on a Per-Notification Basis

Currently if you tie a website to a notification app from the Chrome Extension, clicking it will only bring up the website on your computer. Not having an app tied to a website only opens it on your phone. For apps that have a website tied to them, it would be useful to be able to choose if clicking opens on the phone like standard, or opens the website you have tied to it

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Sorry, but I don't quite understand. If you want to open on the phone why are you tying a website to it?

T

It's more just that it's nice to have options. If I get a Messenger notification, for example, generally I'll want to click it and open messenger.com to reply on my PC and see the rest of the conversation.

However, say there's a file that's only on my phone or a specific webpage on it that's already pulled up. Rather than sharing these from my phone to my PC, and then from my PC to messenger.com, it's easier to share them direct to the Messenger app from my phone. In this case, it would be easier to click the notification to open the conversation directly on my phone instead of the web.

Does that make more sense? It kind of just depends on the situation.

Sure, but how would Join know if you want to do one thing or the other?

T

Would it be possible to add more options to the notification cards? Like another text option for opening on your phone if tied to a website, or small buttons in the corner for all your linked devices so you can choose where it opens by clicking one of them? In both cases it would default to your PC if you just click on the notification itself like usual with a website attached.

If not, that puts a dampener on things, though maybe it could still work by adding a toggle switch in the extension for enabling/disabling the website associations? If possible, maybe make it so that toggle switch can be toggled by a keyboard combination so you don't have to open the extension to toggle it?

Though, again, I don't know the feasibility of all of this.

Edit: another idea might be to have buttons for all your devices in the extension down by the clear all button. Clicking one defaults all clicked notifications to go to that device. If it's a PC but no website attached however, it would just default to opening on the device it came in on.