Ask HN: How do you deal with notifications?

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I've tried different "solutions" now I'm with cellphone totally silence, no vibration at all, and my smartwatch configured to only vibrate when someone is calling me. But this doesn't work with wsapp calls. And what about the desktop? how do you deal with slack, dock badges,...?

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Turn them all off. I pull from my many inboxes on a regular schedule, when i choose the time.

This approach needs discipline otherwise your JIRA “inbox” or any of the 100s of other inboxes-in-disguise we all have, will be overflowing in short order.

Discipline could be something as simple as GTD strategy.

My only notifications are when people are trying to reach me. Anything automated is either outright disabled, unsubscribed from or filtered away by email rules.

This approach works well for me and it's only a handful of interruptions during my work time so I feel like the ability to respond instantly is worth it in the long run.

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