I think I basically agree. My policy is basically: people can contact me, computers can’t. The only notifications I allow are for apps that are a proxy for hu

I think I basically agree. My policy is basically: people can contact me, computers can’t. The only notifications I allow are for apps that are a proxy for human communication: messages, email (with a heavily curated inbox in which I dutifully unsubscribe from everything that’s not something I want), and very little else. The only time I want a notification is if some human being thought to themself “I need to talk to ninkendo right now, and I want him to be notified”. No automated systems, no mass communications. I’ve never found any system to be of any help with this other than just disabling notifications for every single thing other than these 2-3 apps. No “focus modes”, no auto-summaries, etc. None of them are as effective as just not having the notifications in the first place.