Despite working on the UI on the Mac version of TouchDown, there are still fun features that Goutham (who built it) surprised me with – especially my new favorite feature, the custom notification feature.
I like to know when I have new email, and since I am often working on a Mac desktop, a Macbook air and a Samsung PC all at the same time, (meaning my eyes aren’t always staring at the inbox), I LOVE that I can create sound notifications. Not the boring “Ding” that says you have a new email, but awesome, completely custom, speech notifications, PER account. So lets says I have my main inbox, which just happens to be my name @nitrodesk.com. I might have it say “Heh, you have mail.” or if Im having a bad day, I might even have it say “You are amazing” everytime I receive an email.
The coolest part is not the self-esteem booster, but the fact that I can then go to my second and their and fourth account that I have configured for Touchdown, and give each one a different sound/speech notification. So for my support email I may have it say “check support email.” So whether I am pouring over the PC working on some Windows 8 design issue, or having a snack in the lunchroom, I know exactly what account just landed an email that needs my attention.
Want to know who the email is from or who sent it? You can do that too. Here’s how:
In general, you will want to select the account you want to change the notification for – below, I have selected my main account, Daniela@nitro….
1. Click on Settings Icon (lower left hand corner)
2. Click on Notifications, making sure its the Notifications tab under the account you want to amend.
3. Select the Speak radio Button
4. Enter what you want it to say when you receive a new email in the “Speech String” box
5. If you are feeling down, have it say something positive about you, and send yourself email (ok, maybe that’s me…)
Differentiating notifications between accounts
If you want to have a different notification for additional accounts you have configured on your TouchDown for Mac, simply click on that account (mine is blank in this example) and repeat steps 1-4 above. Easy Peasy!!
To get even more details, like WHO sent the email, or the title of the email, repeat steps 1-3, and then:
4. If you want to hear the sender, write something like “Message from” (or email from) and then write “from” like this: %from% An example would be “Email from %from%”
5. If you want to hear the subject of the email, write something like “email titled %subject%”
You can even do both, such as “You have an email from %from% with the subject %subject%”
SO whether you want differentiate your incoming email with speech notifications, boost your self-esteem or TouchDown tell you what the subject line is, this is one cool feature I am already hooked on.
Let me know what you think, and what your notification is.
Nitrodesk 
I think it would make more sense for more people to have this customizable per folder instead of (or in addition to) per account. I think most people using Exchange only have one account and use filters accordingly. (At least, this is my current situation.)