A method of notifying a user of a cloud-based content management platform of a comment made in a document associated with the user includes determining a set of comments associated with documents to which the user has access via the cloud-based content management platform, the set of comments including one or more comments added by other users to each document within a last predetermined time period, selecting one or more comments from the set of comments for notification to the user, the selecting being based at least on interactions of the user with a comment thread associated with each comment from the set of comments and characteristics of the comment thread, wherein a comment thread is a group of a plurality of comments comprising a first comment and a second comment added in reply to the first comment, determining one or more documents associated with the one or more selected comments, and providing a graphical user interface (GUI) of a cloud storage of the user hosted by the cloud-based content management platform for presentation to the user, the GUI identifying the one or more documents and, for each identified document, a respective selected comment associated with the identified document.