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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 c

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.

moreira 4y ago
Not the OP, but: 1. General awareness about what's on your plate. You don't need a reminder, you just need to know that you have meeting X at Y hours, or Z appointment on this date. 2. The difference is that you check email/IMs on your terms, which means that you decide when you want to take a break from whatever you're doing to look at and respond to anything in your inbox. If you have notifications on, your focus will keep getting taken away from whatever you're doing. Depending on what you're doing, this may or may not be important to you.
- Markoff 4y ago
  1. I can' keep general awareness with dozens of reminders each day, I'm using calendar reminders to my benefit 20+ years, so i don't have to hold these things in my head and worry about forgetting something. 2. You can check/ignore notifications on your own terms.
  - moreira 4y ago
    It sounds like your workflow works great for you, and that's great! You asked how some people to live without notifications, and I gave an example of how. That's it.
throwaway22032 4y ago
You may as well ask "how do you know if you have mail" e.g. physical mail. I see it when I go to leave the house. Maybe I hear the postbox ring. I don't need an immediate notification of e-mail, it's quite fine to batch it and see if anything interesting is there. Daily, or a few times a day, or maybe after a week, depending on what I'm doing.

moreira 4y ago

Not the OP, but: 1. General awareness about what's on your plate. You don't need a reminder, you just need to know that you have meeting X at Y hours, or Z appointment on this date. 2. The difference is that you check email/IMs on your terms, which means that you decide when you want to take a break from whatever you're doing to look at and respond to anything in your inbox. If you have notifications on, your focus will keep getting taken away from whatever you're doing. Depending on what you're doing, this may or may not be important to you.

Markoff 4y ago
1. I can' keep general awareness with dozens of reminders each day, I'm using calendar reminders to my benefit 20+ years, so i don't have to hold these things in my head and worry about forgetting something. 2. You can check/ignore notifications on your own terms.
- moreira 4y ago
  It sounds like your workflow works great for you, and that's great! You asked how some people to live without notifications, and I gave an example of how. That's it.

throwaway22032 4y ago

You may as well ask "how do you know if you have mail" e.g. physical mail. I see it when I go to leave the house. Maybe I hear the postbox ring. I don't need an immediate notification of e-mail, it's quite fine to batch it and see if anything interesting is there. Daily, or a few times a day, or maybe after a week, depending on what I'm doing.