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It was so much easier when there was one program where all your chats lived, and where this program was only on one device. This article made me decide to shut

It was so much easier when there was one program where all your chats lived, and where this program was only on one device. This article made me decide to shut up a lot of notifications. So I got to pick up the iPhone and both of the iPads, scroll through a lengthy list of every app on all three of those devices that's ever requested the power of sending a notification, find the apps people talk to me on, and turn off their ability to make a popup and a noise happen. And then I get to do it again on the computer I'm typing this on. Except there it's a mishmash of individual program's settings and stuff in the "notifications" section of OSX's preferences. It looks like I was a lot more aggressive in making stuff not notify me on the the computer so there's not much to turn off. I really miss the days when all my chatting happened via Adium. One program. On one device.

Melatonic 4y ago
It was Trillian for me - one program and a ton of protocols. It was also a pain to setup though and often had to be updated as shit changed. If you take the time to really customize your notifications you can make them pretty powerful - I have a huge system of color coded emails in both my personal and work email and only get notifications on my mobile device for the ones I find important. It takes up a good amount of time to initially setup all of these filters and whatnot but after the fact it is totally worth it. I spent about one full work day on each (work and personal) and occasionally tune it after that (only a few minutes). I wish I had done it sooner. For those that really get annoyed by constant dings you can also do what my friend did - he turned on do not disturb (DnD) all the time. He then turned on the function where if someone calls back twice in a row they will blow past the DnD. And then added specific close people to the list of exceptions. At the time I thought this was a bit crazy but now I use a similar system at night when sleeping and sometimes when on vacation and it works surprisingly well.
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  mail(1), talk(1), and write(1), back in the day.

Melatonic 4y ago

It was Trillian for me - one program and a ton of protocols. It was also a pain to setup though and often had to be updated as shit changed. If you take the time to really customize your notifications you can make them pretty powerful - I have a huge system of color coded emails in both my personal and work email and only get notifications on my mobile device for the ones I find important. It takes up a good amount of time to initially setup all of these filters and whatnot but after the fact it is totally worth it. I spent about one full work day on each (work and personal) and occasionally tune it after that (only a few minutes). I wish I had done it sooner. For those that really get annoyed by constant dings you can also do what my friend did - he turned on do not disturb (DnD) all the time. He then turned on the function where if someone calls back twice in a row they will blow past the DnD. And then added specific close people to the list of exceptions. At the time I thought this was a bit crazy but now I use a similar system at night when sleeping and sometimes when on vacation and it works surprisingly well.

dredmorbius 4y ago
mail(1), talk(1), and write(1), back in the day.