Push notifications — the ping that finds you

01 — What it does

Without notifications, a watcher is only half useful — you'd still have to keep checking whether it found something. Push notifications finish the job: the instant your condition matches (your words appeared, your zone changed, your price dropped), a real system notification pops up on top of whatever you're doing. It tells you what matched and where, so you know whether to run to the computer before you've even clicked.

The real magic is what DOESN'T ping. Notifications only fire when your watch condition matches — not on every reload. A well-set watch might ping once a day, and that one ping means GO. Pro tip: turn the sound on for the big fast stuff (drops, tickets, queue breakthroughs) and leave it off for slow watches. That way, when you hear the sound, you know it's go time.