A tool that notifies you about everything is a tool that has trained you to ignore it. We have all been there. Some system fires an email for every event, your inbox fills with noise, and within a week you have a filter sending all of it to a folder you never open. The notifications technically work. They just stopped meaning anything.
I did not want Edventory to be that. The job is busy enough without a tool adding to the pile. So the notifications are meant to earn their place. A weekly digest gives you the picture without a message a minute. Reminders go out for the things that actually have a deadline, like a renewal coming up or a recurring task that is due. The default posture is to tell you what you need to act on, and to stay quiet otherwise.
This sounds like a small design choice, but it is really about respecting the person on the other end. When you are stretched thin, your attention is the scarcest thing you have. A tool that spends it carelessly is a tool that makes your day worse, even if every individual email was technically accurate. The right number of notifications is not zero, and it is definitely not all of them. It is the few that change what you do next.
So the rule I try to hold is simple. If a message would not change your day, the system should not send it. Earn the interruption, or stay quiet.