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I don’t have notifications enabled, nowhere and never

by Curzel on 7/29/22, 8:18 AM with 162 comments

• by ryandrake on 7/29/22, 9:59 AM

  Do Not Disturb mode. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No notifications, no texts, no calls, nothing at all begging for my attention. Once you've tried it, you'll never go back. I now use my devices when I want, on my own terms, and on my own schedule, not when some app company product manager or other rando people want me to use them. To me, using a computing device should be a deliberate act, with a purpose and limited duration, not some mindless response to stimulus. I'd say my quality of life has increased since making this change--I'm no longer being trained to allow (and get anxious about) arbitrary interruptions throughout the day. I feel I have more time in the day to do what I want without my device constantly begging me to "check in".

  I go home and visit my parents and their devices are beeping and buzzing and vibrating every 5 seconds or so. It's like living on the Las Vegas strip. I see people out in restaurants together constantly picking up their phone over and over because it's dinging at them. I can't even imagine myself living like that anymore.

• by MacsHeadroom on 7/29/22, 9:55 AM

  No, I don't allow notifications for any app or function on any device.

  I'm highly technically competent. When I look at my older parents' phones and see the notification hell they're dealing with, I wonder how anyone ever thought notifications were a good idea?!

  Back when notifications meant email, IM, and updates they were fine. Now everything wants to grab your attention. So now none of them get my attention, not even calls or text messages.

• by ojkelly on 7/29/22, 11:27 AM

  I use notifications, and alarms, and timers all the time.

  It’s an accessibility (as in a11y) thing. Notifications are a tool that some of us depend on, and some of us will never need.

  Like many people with ADHD I forgot stuff. Important things, non-important things. For so many different reasons, some reasonable other just frustrating.

  So when I know now I need to do something in the future, say in 3 hours (like take the clothes out of the washing machine), I’m gonna set a timer. Otherwise you could place a solid bet I’ll forget.

  It goes for other things too. App notifications are a critical part of my ability to stay on top of things.

  Snoozing is one of the most consequential features to have been added. I used google inbox for this feature alone (then de-googled after they shut it down).

  I use Slack’s remind me more than twice a day.

  The ability for a different system to act as both time based memory, and an external prompt that I need to look at something takes a huge cognitive load of me.

  But, this only works with apps that respect notifications. Those apps (looking at you Uber), that push marketing notifications down the same channel as the critical transactional ones are nothing but enraging.

  I’m sure they think it’s good for their numbers, but it breeds a discontent with the brand. Because you’ve taken a communication channel I depend on and made it unreliable. If I can’t know for sure that an Uber notification is time sensitive, I’m going to mute them and stop using the app. But for Uber it’s worse, I’ve learnt they are time sensitive (car is arriving), and when I’ve gotten the marketing notification out of the blue, I’m not in a mood to receive it because I’m wondering why I have an Uber booking, because that’s what I would expect from prior usage.

  I do take a fully opt in approach to notifications and I think everyone should. If you’re getting interrupted by a notification it has to be more important than what your currently doing. If not, it’s going to be a negative experience.

  So, notifications. They’re a powerful accessibility tool. Which means we’re all gonna configure them differently, and it means abuses the trust of uses who’ve given you permission to interrupt them is something you should treat as a liability not an acceptable cost of pumping your numbers.

• by flkiwi on 7/29/22, 3:37 PM

  I just unsubscribed from Marvel Unlimited (and deleted the app) because they don't provide any mechanism for disabling marketing notifications ("Here's an issue of something you've never read!") vs. functional notifications ("Here's an issue of something you've starred!") vs. transactional notifications ("Your subscription is coming up for renewal!"). I understand that, for some people, new issue notifications are a plus, but not giving us a chance to filter out that noise is abusive. It's my phone not your billboard. Anyway, thanks to this thread I went back and checked my notifications settings and a surprising number of them were set not only to allow immediate notifications, but also to "announce" their notifications. Turned all those off.

• by kdtsh on 7/29/22, 9:19 AM

  I use notifications almost everywhere, but I also have some variant of ‘Do Not Disturb’ enabled at all times on most of my devices. It’s handy to have a list of new information, but I don’t want it to know about it until I choose to.

  On my phone I only have Do Not Disturb enabled when I really don’t want to be disturbed, but otherwise I only allow audio alerts for phone calls; everything else either pops up on my Lock Screen quietly, gets a badge that I can sort out later, or doesn’t matter enough for me to spend any time on unless I open the app.

• by jzellis on 7/29/22, 10:15 AM

  As everyone tends to use different apps for messaging, I wish there was some sort of universal way to add contacts from any app to an "Always Send Notifications When These People Contact Me But Nobody Else" list. Like, I can mute individuals in Messenger or whatever, but I want to mute everybody but my wife and my parents back in the US in case of emergencies, whether they call me or text me or use Messenger or Whatsapp. That would obviate the need for DnD or silent modes for me, at least.

• by thenerdhead on 7/29/22, 3:45 PM

  Why stop at notifications?

  https://jondouglas.dev/balance-your-digital-well-being/

  https://jondouglas.dev/focus-is-a-superpower/

  https://jondouglas.dev/fast-brain-slow-mind/

  I try to replace my artificial notifications with natural/organic notifications where possible. The only notifications on my phone that I allow are phone calls/texts from certain numbers. I don't want to constantly be in a state of "alertness". I seek serenity from digital devices on a daily basis.

• by ghusto on 7/29/22, 12:31 PM

  I tell colleagues that Slack is also blocked, both on desktop and my phone. I check it periodically, about every hour or two.

  "But what if I need you for something important?!"

  There's this thing called a phone

  "Well, it's not _that_ important ... I guess"

  Amazing how rationality has time to settle in when we stop being impulsive.

• by Brajeshwar on 7/29/22, 9:20 AM

  I have been advocating and helping many others, ever since I started the idea in 2014[1]. A few years back, in 2019, I went a tad more and went total DND[2]. The exceptions are tiny and very specific instances, and reasoning.

  1. https://brajeshwar.com/2014/missing-step-productivity-activi...

  2. https://phone.wtf

• by nemacol on 7/29/22, 10:11 AM

  I started to eliminate notifications from my life when a sound enabled banner notification from a keyboard I had installed on my android phone wanted me to know about all the great features of the keyboard app going from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 (or whatever minor version).

  Anyway, I disabled everywhere except calendar alerts, alarm clock app, and a "favorites" list that is exempt from DnD in my phone.

  My preference is for technology to be a tool that I use when I want. It is here for me not the other way around.

• by bambax on 7/29/22, 9:30 AM

  On my phone I only have notifications for the phone app, and text. That's it. Nothing else.

  On my desktop I have zero notifications.

  It's been that way for years, it's perfect.

  I'm not a first responder. All things can wait.

• by ubercow13 on 7/29/22, 9:45 AM

  Yes, I use notifications from my bank and credit card so I know when someone is taking my money.

• by Veen on 7/29/22, 9:09 AM

  I use Apple's Scheduled Summary for most notifications (Android may have something similar, but I don't know the platform). Scheduled summary collects notifications and then delivers a summary at a time of my choosing. You can choose which notifications go into the summary and which are delivered immediately.

  I turn off notifications for most apps, put non-urgent ones in the summary, and leave only a few to be delivered immediately ( e.g. iMessages from VIP contacts). Then I glance through the summary when it arrives after work and deal with anything that needs a response.

  Also, I turn off all browser notifications. I never need them.

• by NikolaNovak on 7/29/22, 11:12 AM

  My phone is always on silent mode, and dnd over night (ops team has standing instructions to always phone any on-call person twice successfully before going to next person). No audio notifications at all, but vibrate is on for phone calls during the day (important work calls, family emergencies etc of course still need to reach me)

  No notifications on desktop, ever <shudder>.

  Google hangouts and ams messenger can show me pull down "notifications" (message preview) on the phone.

  That's not to say I'm inaccessible - I have not missed a call or important message yet. But app notifications have negative use value for me.

• by atemerev on 7/29/22, 9:47 AM

  I have a severe ADHD, so nearly all notifications are disabled, except for reminders, which I use heavily. This is literally a matter of survival for me.

  But I don’t know anyone who doesn’t switch off most of notifications.

• by gumby on 7/29/22, 11:38 AM

  My phone, computer, and watch are on silent; I only get notifications on my watch, and almost none:

  I enable certain IM senders (kids, partner) and slack (certain channels only). I have an app that reminds me to take my meds through the day. Nothing else.

  There are task-specific notifications I would like to enable (e.g. my car is arriving) but when you enable notifications for those apps, the apps spam me at other times. So polling it is.

  I never enabled browser notifications.

• by sys_64738 on 7/29/22, 11:46 AM

  No, as they’re a complete distraction from what YOU actually want to do. They are your own personal time waster that FB uses to keep you engaged longer. We’re only in the planet for a finite time that gets less everyday so why would I want to waste my time. You see this most impacting insecure folk who need positive engagement or constant reinforcement of the feedback loop. It’s a complete waste of time.

• by lamontcg on 7/29/22, 5:20 PM

  I'm not quite zero notifications, but I've never installed work e-mail/calendar/slack on my phone. Work notifications are slack direct DMs on my laptop/desktop only. And I sort of condition people to understand that I'm the person who gets things done and I might not respond to you immediately.

  If you think you desperately need to be ADHD constantly helping people out immediately with every request they have and this is the way to get forward in your career, you might want to reconsider that. You turn into sort of the helpdesk guy. You can still be the person that does all the extraordinarily hard problems that nobody else can solve, and deliver on the big features, without being the person who is there for instantly answering questions 24/7. If you open yourself up to being ADHD constantly you'll probably never get anything done through being interrupted constantly and you may find yourself stuck at a lower technical level than you want to progress to. Although if you want a management job this is probably the path you want to take.

• by zevon on 7/29/22, 11:59 AM

  I'm on the same boat as quite a few posters: I hate notifications and have a hard time understanding how people who pick up their devices all the time get anything done and keep their sanity.

  My personal phone is a device with GrapheneOS (no Play Store and no Play services, so not even the temptation to install attention grabbing crap - not that I even have social media accounts anymore). It is used mostly for audiobooks, music, navigation, phone calls, as a device for notetaking, information gathering / referencing - and to have a backup of my most important data near me at all times. The only app I allow notifications on this device for is the one messenger I have installed - which I only use to chat with my partner, a group chat with some of my oldest friends and the very occasinal message to other contacts (almost exclusively to coordinate some real-world activity). At the beginning of my work day, I usually chuck the personal phone in my backpack and only remember to take it out in the evening when I usually have a call with my partner - or when I'd like to listen to some music during a break. If there is an emergency, my partner, my parents, etc. know to call me at work.

  My work phone is a bit different. I have it with me at all times when I'm working and have notifications enabled for Matrix/Element (which we use as our team messenger) and for the calendar. Not E-Mail, though. I check that when I'm good and ready.

  My partner has a permanent exception to Do Not Disturb mode on both my phones.

  On my computers, it's Do Not Disturb / disable notifications all the way. If I want to be informed about stuff, I'll keep the respective app open. During a normal work day, for example, I have Element, Calendar and E-Mail open on a second monitor for glanceability - and I even close those apps depending on the kind of work I'm doing.

  Edit: I forgot: I also have my government's disaster warning app installed on my phones and it's allowed notifications - for obvious reasons.

• by jasomill on 7/29/22, 3:41 PM

  1. Calls/FaceTime/SMS/iMessage (banners and sounds, Mac and iPhone).

  2. Calendar reminders (banners only, Mac and iPhone).

  3. A bespoke "hello world" iOS app I threw together and installed to enable ad hoc notifications to myself from anywhere via a similarly trivial Web API (banners and sounds, iPhone only).

  4. LaunchControl[1] on the Mac has a neat feature that sends a notification whenever a launchd item is added or removed. This is nice to know, and generally only triggers when apps are installed or updated, and on app launch and quit for a few apps like VMware Fusion that only keep their related launchd items loaded while running (banners only, Mac only).

  Everything else gets turned off with extreme prejudice.

  [1] https://soma-zone.com/LaunchControl/

• by ndepoel on 7/29/22, 10:21 AM

  Whenever an app or website asks me if I want notifications, I mentally substitute the word 'notification' with 'distraction'.

  "Do you want to receive distractions from this app?"

  Reads very differently and makes the correct answer much more obvious in pretty much every situation. No, no, no and no.

• by juanca on 7/29/22, 10:35 AM

  I think the only notifications i care about are steam notifications. Otherwise, i aggressively turn them off. I expect myself to catch up on an application when I use the application.

  Maybe the only downside is checking my calendar, email, IM at least once a day instead of letting it inform me of events.

• by oshirisuki on 7/29/22, 8:43 PM

  I have notifications for long(ish) tasks I run on the command line, I get an ephemeral popup dialog window saying that the task is done, other than that, only calls/texts in my phone, and even those, only from some contacts (texts, for calls I do get the sound on every call)

• by dvfjsdhgfv on 7/29/22, 9:38 AM

  Same here. A long time ago I decided I want to be the one in control of my life, not others. When I want to check my mails etc., I do it - not when someone creates a false sense of urgency.

  The only notifications I'm using are for phone calls from selected contacts, mainly my family.

• by penguin_booze on 7/29/22, 5:00 PM

  I rarely mess with notifications. Instead, I go online only when I want to, that too, for maybe 5 or 10 minutes at a stretch. I'm offline by default. Anything urgent shall reach me the old school way: either call or text. I admit disruption when I want to.

• by safety1st on 7/29/22, 11:24 AM

  For me personally, I feel I DO become more productive when I put the phone on silent and leave it in another room. Generally in a drawer or something. After a few minutes it becomes easier to focus on the task at hand and before I know it I've been producing for an hour and have been in that "flow" state everyone wants to be in. I've been doing this for over a year now and it's like this switch in my brain flips faster and more easily every day.

  I have accepted that if I want to veg out and be aimless and distracted (which occasionally is ok) I should have my phone out near me. If I don't, physical distance, the more the better.

• by throwaway22032 on 7/29/22, 9:11 AM

  I barely even use them on my phone, everyone except close friends and family are muted.

• by zenwell on 7/29/22, 4:34 PM

  Glad you posted this, it is something for me to think about.

  I'm building a wellness mobile app and I make use of mobile notifications for certain reminders.

  I am building the app using things that worked for me, and one of those things was notification reminders. I don't think I've ever set up YouTube bell, and I'm usually Do Not Disturb mode. Most of the time, I "miss" my reminders but when I pull down from the top I see what I missed and would act upon them.

  One of the challenges for me is that I tend to sometimes get too focused (or completely side-tracked sometimes) and during these times I miss my self-care time.

• by hackernewds on 7/29/22, 10:10 AM

  There is a middle ground, and understanding it requires detangling the nature of notifications by urgency and relevance:

  * urgent and relevant: enabled, show me this now. examples are: IM and phone calls and earthquake monitors * urgent and non-relevant: "sale ends in 5 mins!!" * non-urgent but relevant: "your package has been delivered to your mailbox". Use an app like Daywise to BATCH these notifications to arrive at X hour intervals, so you're only checking 24/x times a day * non-urgent non-relevant: disable all these

• by t6jvcereio on 7/29/22, 11:12 AM

  Can we make a clarification? Are we talking about sound notifications?

  First I thought we were talking about silent notifications, like a lock screen display or a display LED etc. But if that's what we're talking about, I don't understand why people here are so annoyed by notifications. My brain filters silent notifications as well as it filters ads - I don't even see them any more.

  The only notifications that my brain doesn't filter are the ones with sound, and only one app in my phone can produce sound, which is the alarm.

• by Markoff on 7/29/22, 9:55 AM

  So how do you get calendar reminder about important event? Same goes, how do you figure out you have new email or IM message?

  Does this mean you have to open calendar, email and IM app all the time to find out there is nothing new? Seems like waste of time/energy to not use notification just to show some statement.

  I have 24/7 DND mode with notifications only on my watch with email, calendar and IM (and on IM i mute people who bother me too much). Well also SMS, but I'm receiving only verification codes there rarely.

• by VyseofArcadia on 7/29/22, 3:00 PM

  I _really_ wish Slack had more fine-grained notification controls. I can ignore ~90% of my Slack notifications, but I have a boss that likes to start huddles at random times with no warning. If I could either filter notifications by person or just get notifications for huddles and calls only, that would be perfect.

  I've got every other notification quashed. Calls, IMs from close friends and family, that's all I get on my personal devices. If only I could dial down Slack on my work machine.

• by jzellis on 7/29/22, 10:12 AM

  I've disabled them on everything but my phone as much as possible. My IPad Pro has none, my MacBook has the bare minimum the system will allow, and my phone only has them for messaging, email and time-sensitive stuff (like food or Amazon delivery).

  First thing I do whenever I'm forced to use Slack or anything like it is to disable notifications on anything but direct messages or mentions.

  My time is more valuable to me than other people's desire to take it up, especially for anything that isn't urgent.

• by knorker on 7/29/22, 11:29 AM

  Yes. My wife and I chat basically all the time, and some of it is timely questions.

  If the only way to get a timely response would be to call, then she'd he to call. And i would have to pick up. And maybe she's in a meeting.

  Maybe she's presenting something in a meeting and asking me to check if there's any problem with our wifi. She can't call me; she's busy.

  But things like YouTube notifications, or "ring the little bell" calls to action. No... Just... Why in the fuck would i want to do that?

• by kradeelav on 7/29/22, 5:50 PM

  Also zero notifications on any and all hardware platforms. All calls/texts are set on silent/Do Not Disturb, with the whitelist allowing a total of five people: my parents, grandma, boss, and one or two others of similar importance. Anything important - they'll reach one of those five people. Anything else, I'll get to within a few days via email.

  Cannot imagine living with more stimulation ... already feel like i have too much!

• by thekingofrome on 7/30/22, 6:35 AM

  The only notification I've been getting in the last 2+ years is calls. As for everything else, I just open the app/program when I want to check what's there. It means I check my messages when I have a moment free, not when my phone demands it. If anything is urgent then someone can call me.

  I always hated pop up notifications and my phone buzzing or making noise, it feels so intrusive as well as being distracting

• by RGamma on 7/29/22, 3:59 PM

  Notifications I get: IM/SMS/Email, calendar events, train delays (when applicable), payment, catastrophe alert (most of them silent).

  The rest I consider spam. And notification spam is the number one issue I see with devices I manage for relatives, etc ("how do I turn this off, I don't know where that comes from, blabla"), which is an improvement over the PC era with its much more horrible phenomena.

• by brainwipe on 7/29/22, 10:10 AM

  On Android I use Do Not Disturb mode but people I really need to hear from (like my elderly mum) are put on a starred list and they get through[1].

  I can then turn it off, have all the cached notifications appear, deal with them and then switch on Do Not Disturb again.

  1: https://support.google.com/android/answer/9069335

• by jasonpeacock on 7/29/22, 3:40 PM

  Something great I read once:

      Every time you see 'notifications', replace with the word 'interruptions'.
  

  It really puts it into perspective.

  I have notifications enabled only for a select few people (family), everything is silenced. If you need me, leave a voicemail or text, and I'll see it when I next check for it.

  Granted, I still check fairly often, but it's when I want to check.

• by ryanmercer on 7/29/22, 10:50 AM

  I for one like notifications. I want to know when I get a text message, I want to know when I get pinged on work Slack or discord, I want to know when I get a call, I want to know the second I get an email from a very specific person because they are incredibly busy and sometimes I'm waiting days for that reply.

  Unless I'm actively texting someone, that might me a dozen notifications a day.

• by rasse on 7/29/22, 3:46 PM

  - I allow selective notifications, but I've disabled all sound and vibrations from them (except for a couple critical contacts on IM). - Absolutely no notifications for email. - All calls come through. Haven't gotten a spam call in years.

  For me, this setup allows for a good balance of instantly knowing what's up when checking the phone but without being disturbed.

• by wruza on 7/29/22, 8:38 AM

  Pretty much the same. Only standard phone, IM, reminders, calendar, alarms, and also banking apps can notify me. For order tracking I manually turn it on when putting order, and off after receiving, otherwise too much spam, literally 2-3 times a day per app.

  Btw, what are notification places other than my phone? A desktop/browser? Always off for everything.

• by perryizgr8 on 7/30/22, 9:48 AM

  Browser notifications are the first thing I disable on any laptop, phone or tablet. Absolutely no legitimate use for those. Abused heavily by all sorts of sites, and enabled by default on phones. It's disgusting. They are why I hate the entire Google suite of "apps" that run inside a browser tab.

• by rmetzler on 7/29/22, 10:01 AM

  Pagerduty is an important notification app for me. But most other, including e-mail, are disabled or just noise.

• by seba_dos1 on 7/29/22, 9:40 AM

  The only notifications I ever use are IM, SMS and work e-mail (with all work-related stuff only showing up when the client is open) - and this includes my phone. I don't know why would I ever need anything else; maybe aside of calendar - that one I can understand, I just happen to not use it.

• by zppln on 7/29/22, 3:07 PM

  I've set my phone so I only receive calls and some texts from people who are close during most of the day. Between 9 and 10 pm I allow the rest, resulting in all notifications received during the day showing up at 9 pm sharp. This makes it easy and quick to just sift through them.

• by chatmasta on 8/1/22, 12:47 PM

  Same. I also haven’t had email installed on my phone since 2012. It was such a life improvement that I can distinctly remember the day when I removed it.

  Related: “inbox zero” is a trap. Why would you surrender your willpower to anyone who can reach your inbox?

• by subliminalpanda on 7/29/22, 10:11 AM

  Turned them all off except for a select few app - WhatsApp, messages and the like, and even then my phone is on silent mode all the time.

  I only noticed that i had notifications turned on for Uber, and was notification spammed by them for some sort of promotion - disabled immediately.

• by tarunmuvvala on 8/1/22, 5:04 AM

  Same here,apart from notifications

  I am now limiting time on Youtube, twitter and other limitless scrolling site.

  We need a review system for this.

  I check how many times I unlock my phone in a day and it ranges from 80-120.I wish to reduce this and do more deep work.

• by circlingthesun on 7/29/22, 10:21 AM

  I had do not disturb on by accident the whole day yesterday. It was great, it made be wonder if I should enable it permanently. As the technical founder of a startup, I suspect it'll probably be to my detrimental when shit hits the fan.

• by 18dhaFijHH728 on 7/29/22, 9:54 AM

  I recently migrated to a degoogled ROM and since many apps use google for push notifications, I've just been going without. And JTS honestly been quite freeing. If someone needs a quick response they can reach me on signal.

• by acutesoftware on 7/29/22, 9:31 AM

  No notifications at all - phone is on silent at all times.

  Though I do have a good habit of checking messages and emails every hour, so it isn't that bad for others. (Desktop is different, teams / slack is on all the time with popups).

• by sys_64738 on 7/29/22, 11:58 AM

  What I would really love is a way to disable all sound notifications on Windows 10 permanently. Right now on calls I get assaulted with sound notifications from random places every 15 minutes. How do I turn this sh!t off!

• by tandav on 7/29/22, 10:33 AM

  I unsubscribed from all youtube channels. I have a markdown list of links for some channels and check them manually if I want. I'm also trying to remove all newsfeeds/recommendations from everywhere.

• by O__________O on 7/29/22, 10:54 AM

  Related post from yesterday:

  >> Why I'm unreachable and maybe you should be too

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32265800

• by 4ad on 7/29/22, 9:40 AM

  I hate virtually all notifications, and go out of my way to disable as many as I can. My devices are in permanent DnD mode.

  Only exception is for phone, some IM (not all), and some mail.

• by DarthNebo on 7/29/22, 10:58 AM

  Not a single website is enabled for notification apart from IM like whatsapp/telegram. Only if it is needed for work but for random ones/ecommerce never

• by helij on 7/29/22, 11:15 AM

  Apart from one app that I use for messaging and video calls with my family and some old friends all other apps have notifications turned off.

• by elzbardico on 7/29/22, 10:06 AM

  Focus mode in iOS and Mac OS was a blessing for me. Easily one of the most underrated features from apple.

• by f0e4c2f7 on 7/29/22, 12:27 PM

  I started doing this after reading Cal Newport's Deep Work.

  Had a few other similar suggestions I use to this day.

• by the_gipsy on 7/29/22, 10:13 AM

  I still don't know how to make my iPhone ring only on phone calls but keep notifications silent.

• by freedude on 7/29/22, 8:38 PM

  I guess each of us must ask and answer. Is this a tool or a trap?

  A tool is used when I need it.

  A trap won't let go of me.

• by the_other on 7/29/22, 9:38 AM

  I use screen zoom, which magnifies a portion of my screen around my cursor. As a result, I miss most desktop notifications. I've turned on the thing that flashes the whole screen when they come in, but pan+scanning over to the notifications pile makes me lose context with what I was working on, so I typically ignore the flash too. I should just turn off all the notifications.

  There's a lot of "I turn most of them off" here. In parallel, notifications are regularly talked about as a major sticking point around web vs native apps (because Apple). If we, here, aren't using them, why are we building customer-facing tools around them?

• by Angostura on 7/29/22, 12:31 PM

  So no notifications while you are at work, on work devices?

  Hmmm.

• by psyclobe on 7/30/22, 5:33 AM

  Amen