The irony of receiving a notification 30 seconds into reading was not lost on me.
I turned on every notification for a month
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Re: I turned on every notification for a month
#12The irony of receiving a notification 30 seconds into reading was not lost on me.
I stopped reading at that point though ..
Re: I turned on every notification for a month
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even the point they’re trying to make isn’t well backed-up: > Many would double up their notifications sending both a native one and an email. For example, if someone messaged me on LinkedIn, that would trigger a notification in the app, plus an email to let me know. Obviously, you turned on all notifications! Maybe some people like an email notification, and some like an app-based one. What’s the alternative: deny s…
Similarly, my home security system is set up in a fashion that allows either [app notification], [email notification], or [text notification] - (or any combination of the three). I can certainly see valid use cases where a user would prefer one over the other. Not sure anyone would prefer all three to be turned on, however, which appears to be similar to what the author opted for. Personally, I couldn't imagine getti…
> if my phone goes off in my pocket, I want to make sure I'm pulling it out for, at least what could be, a justifiable reason
There's an intermediate stage between "no notification" and "urgent notification" -- you can configure notifications from different apps to play different sounds.
Re: I turned on every notification for a month
#14It looks like the author wrote this to sell software. I tried scrolling down on my phone and got a full-page pop-up trying to sell me software. Not cool.
Even the point they’re trying to make isn’t well backed-up: > Many would double up their notifications sending both a native one and an email. For example, if someone messaged me on LinkedIn, that would trigger a notification in the app, plus an email to let me know. Obviously, you turned on all notifications! Maybe some people like an email notification, and some like an app-based one. What’s the alternative: deny s…
> Maybe some people like an email notification, and some like an app-based one.
And I still wonder why we can't have notifications depending on where the user sees it first. Whenever I turn on wifi on my tablet(once a week or so) I get flooded with dozens of old notifications I already cleared on the PC or phone. YouTube somehow manages to host countless videos with amazing technology in the background but their website and app can't remember which comments I've already seen, and sometimes which language and color scheme I've set manually. It's so uncanny to have such modern technology mixed with bugs and behaviour that I'd only expect from a hobby project.
Re: I turned on every notification for a month
#15The irony of receiving a notification 30 seconds into reading was not lost on me.
Keep going! 60 seconds in, it throws a huge pop-up at you.
Re: I turned on every notification for a month
#16As this is evidently an advert for Rescue Time and I'm a real sucker for anything productivity related, has anyone tried it out? Any interesting results to report? I didn't like the idea of a service that sent all my visited websites to some remote server so I never got round to using it. Is that info at least encrypted so only you can see it?
No. It's only encrypted "so only you can see it" if it never touches a remote server.
Anything that ever touches a server you must assume is done so in plain text (including passwords).
Re: I turned on every notification for a month
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Similarly, my home security system is set up in a fashion that allows either [app notification], [email notification], or [text notification] - (or any combination of the three). I can certainly see valid use cases where a user would prefer one over the other. Not sure anyone would prefer all three to be turned on, however, which appears to be similar to what the author opted for. Personally, I couldn't imagine getti…
> if my phone goes off in my pocket, I want to make sure I'm pulling it out for, at least what could be, a justifiable reason There's an intermediate stage between "no notification" and "urgent notification" -- you can configure notifications from different apps to play different sounds.
Actually, I don't think there is. In my experience, a notification, even if it tells you explicitly "I'm not as urgent as others" for instance by sound, is still a distraction. I found that I feel and work better with having only the most urgent notifications on - even my phone is often left in DnD mode. Notifications degrade quality of life a lot.