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Eliminating Distractions from Social Media, Email, and StackOverflow
- mikece 7y agoThe great balance: fear of missing out versus focused work. It would be nice if there was a system-level setting I could engage that suppressed all notifications or event count indicators unless overridden on an app by app basis. Closest I get is putting my phone in DND mode and going full screen (with no/minimal chrome) on the app I’m using, at which point I begin to wonder if this is part of what makes vim and emacs so appealing: how they effectively shit out distractions.
- mtlynch 7y agoThanks for reading! Yeah, the notifications are really what get to me. My solution has been to just avoid things that generate notifications and broadly disable notifications on devices where I don't need them. I haven't found the need to fullscreen apps to protect focus as long as nothing is on my screen that can pop notifications or change state without me interacting with it. For you, is it the temptation to interact with another app or are there apps you need to use to get work done that create notifications/distractions on their own?