The Notifications section of the preferences allow you to monitor Bluetooth phones & modems connected to phone lines for incoming calls as well as to broadcast calls you make or receive and subscribe to the broadcasts of other Dialectic users on your network.
Using the robust AppleScript support, you can also have Dialectic trigger actions when incoming calls are detected by devices, applications, or services that are outside of the scope of what Dialectic can natively monitor. For instance, Dialectic cannot monitor a Phlink hardware device for incoming calls but the Phlink software allows you to launch a script when an incoming call is detected. You could configure a script launched by Phlink on an incoming call that passes that information to Dialectic that would then add the call to the Dialectic call log giving you a central repository for all of your incoming and outgoing calls.
The Notifications preferences are broken down into the follow sections: