I live and die by IRC and have often said "irssi is my panopticon." I've customised the hell out of how it highlights (between channels and queries I have over

I live and die by IRC and have often said "irssi is my panopticon." I've customised the hell out of how it highlights (between channels and queries I have over 1,000 open at any given time), but it doesn't get to send me notifications or make any noise, I tab across to it every so often and read and clear the notifications then. I use bitlbee to gateway to most non-IRC services plus a paid irccloud acccount to connect to Slack. I'm not sure any of this is going to help but it works for me so I'm sharing on that basis.