palette/messages/_notes.txt

You need to register any new notifications in the DB. To do this edit the rake
task db:load_notifications in lib/tasks/db_load_data.rake

Since messages are parsed in a different thread than the request, they don't 
know the time_zone of the user by default.  If you want to display formatted
versions of a date or time, you could call force_zone from within the template
code (i.e. force_zone(asset.due_at).strftime("")) or whatever.

I don't think it's the ideal way at all, but it's all I could get to work, so
that's what's there for now.