I don’t have notifications enabled, nowhere and never
by Curzel on Hacker News.
I never was much into notifications, and since it became possible, I have only ever allowed a selection of apps (IM, email, calendar) to send me notifications. Since 2020 I disabled notifications completely on every device I own. I’m not more focused, nor more productive, but, at least, they stopped popping up in the corner of the screen. This included browser-based notifications, which not only are the most annoying kind, as they pop up virtually on every website, but I also have to regularly disable them on phones of friends and family, as they come and ask me to “remove the notifications virus”… I can understand IM, email, calendar, even order tracking push notifications.
But do you really use ANY other notifications? Do you use ANY notifications in places other than your phone?