# Subscribe from the Web UI You can use the Web UI to subscribe to topics as well. If you do, and you keep the website open, **notifications will pop up as desktop notifications**. Simply type in the topic name and click the *Subscribe* button. The browser will keep a connection open and listen for incoming notifications. To learn how to send messages, check out the [publishing page](../publish.md).
To keep receiving desktop notifications from ntfy, you need to keep the website open. What I do, and what I highly recommend, is to pin the tab so that it's always open, but sort of out of the way: If topic reservations are enabled, you can claim ownership over topics and define access to it: