These days the only notifications I have enabled are on Signal, where my family and closest friends are. That's it.
God knows Android tries like hell to distract me all the same though. The amount of BS notifications it spews out is ridiculous. Something I probably need to spend some time reviewing as I'd imagine I could turn them off with a bit of searching around.
I was toying around with an iOS feature, so that when I come home, it switches to a DND mode that only allows non-work stuff to notify me... But I misconfigured it, so it basically mutes all notifications. I usually leave it on for hours at a time.
Somehow screentime management apps don't really do it for me, but disabling notifications (and social media profiles) works like magic.
Great read. I've had *all* notifications disabled for over 10 years. My phone is almost always in silent + do-not-disturb mode. Cal Newport's and Jaron Lanier's books have been a great inspiration on this journey to digital minimalism.
Thanks! I'm edging towards this now, where ever greater proportions of my day are spent in DND, and else in silent mode, though the little unread notification badges on app icons and the occasional screen lighting up still create a lot of noise then.
I'm not sure I've actually read anything by Lanier. Any book you'd recommend as a start?
On the topic of notifications, Newport's books (Deep Work and Digital Minimalism) were clearly more important, but Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now was also quite formative and I think of it as somehow connected, as it's also about getting rid of digital excess and noise.
These days the only notifications I have enabled are on Signal, where my family and closest friends are. That's it.
God knows Android tries like hell to distract me all the same though. The amount of BS notifications it spews out is ridiculous. Something I probably need to spend some time reviewing as I'd imagine I could turn them off with a bit of searching around.
I was toying around with an iOS feature, so that when I come home, it switches to a DND mode that only allows non-work stuff to notify me... But I misconfigured it, so it basically mutes all notifications. I usually leave it on for hours at a time.
Somehow screentime management apps don't really do it for me, but disabling notifications (and social media profiles) works like magic.
Great read. I've had *all* notifications disabled for over 10 years. My phone is almost always in silent + do-not-disturb mode. Cal Newport's and Jaron Lanier's books have been a great inspiration on this journey to digital minimalism.
Thanks! I'm edging towards this now, where ever greater proportions of my day are spent in DND, and else in silent mode, though the little unread notification badges on app icons and the occasional screen lighting up still create a lot of noise then.
I'm not sure I've actually read anything by Lanier. Any book you'd recommend as a start?
On the topic of notifications, Newport's books (Deep Work and Digital Minimalism) were clearly more important, but Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now was also quite formative and I think of it as somehow connected, as it's also about getting rid of digital excess and noise.