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Really, we should be asked if we want notifications in the first place. I find chat apps like Teams, Discord, alert way too much. The signal to noise is tiny. M
by dfxm12 3y ago
Really, we should be asked if we want notifications in the first place. I find chat apps like Teams, Discord, alert way too much. The signal to noise is tiny. Maybe this is my fault (I never really "got" Discord, Slack, Teams etc. like I got email, IM, SharePoint and phone calls), but I get added to group chats/Teams without me knowing and just start getting visual, audio and haptic (on my phone) alerts with very little context. It's a bad UX. At least my phone makes it relatively easy to mute things, or everything.
I wish there was a mute all notifications button on my keyboard like I have a mute mic and mute audio button. Aside from letting me focus, it would be really useful when presenting. Going through a few clicks through the notification center in Windows is a start, but it is too hidden to be obvious to anyone not specifically looking for it and is a bit cumbersome if you flip things on and off frequently.
- manmal 3y agoI‘ve turned off push notifications for most productivity apps on my phone, and haven’t ever missed them. Slack and email have no business appearing on my home screen.
- ok_dad 3y agoI just turn off my WiFi completely when I want to do work and need less distractions. One problem I have, though, is that toddlers have no "off" or "mute" button, so during non-school days it's kinda difficult to get more than one medium-sized (an hour or less time) thing done.
- JohnFen 3y ago> one medium-sized (an hour or less time) thing done Totally off-topic, but this fascinated me because it highlighted how differently people regard task size. If I have a task that can be done in about an hour or less, I call that "very small". A small task can be done in a day, a medium in a single-digit number of days. Just a thing that struck me as interesting.
- ok_dad 3y agoTo me, small tasks things that can be done almost immediately, medium are things I can do a half-dozen of per day, and large tasks take a whole day themselves. I don't think in more than 1-day increments, lately.
- sethhochberg 3y agoI don't have a Windows solution to the "mute everything for presentations" problem, but for anyone on macOS: option-click on the clock / notification section in the menu bar and you'll put yourself into Do Not Disturb mode. Option-click the clock again to disable. The discoverability of that shortcut isn't great but it has become one of my favorite macOS features.
- kogus 3y agoI believe the Windows equivalent is to click on the Calendar in the Taskbar, and select the "Focus" triangle Reference: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-use-focus-in-windows-11-cbcc9ddb-8164-43fa-8919-b9a2af072382 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-use-focus... Amusingly, the first thing it does is put a big countdown clock on your screen, counting down the time till your "focus" ends. Otherwise it works pretty well.
- bouke 3y agoExcept for Teams not respecting this setting and forcefully projects its own ugly notifications nonetheless.