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Marvin Collins

How do you handle notification fatigue?

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So am swamped up in unending notification fatigue, mostly email. How do you handle notification fatigue? Deep work ideas
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Amara Pope
Best solution I found is immediately organizing my emails into folders. Even if I cant get to them right away, at least I know how my unread emails are organized....it is less overwhelming than pages of unread emails listed in one spot in your inbox!
David
Product Hunt
@amara_pope I use the zero inbox strategy, which is something similar. Keep everything in folders/labels and nothing in inbox.
Amara Pope
@zyqxd YES! it makes things easier to find...and also jogs the memory in case it is hard to follow conversations via multiple emails :)
Maths Mathisen
@zyqxd May I ask which email client you are using?
David
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@maths_mathisen I use Gmail as I've never needed more than labelling and folders.
Maths Mathisen
@zyqxd Thanks for your quick response. I'm on the same train here :)
Mantas
I turn them off completely phone & computer in order to focus on what I'm doing. Otherwise notifications is just distracting all day long. There is a time to check email and social media and there is a time to do something more valuable.
Richard Shepherd
Memo
Use a tool like Memo that respects your focus and does not notify you or use the evil red dot to spike your attention. https://sendmemo.app/mission I am hell bent on getting back notification control, it ruined me a while back. I'd love to talk to you more about this.
Cica-Laure Mbappé
I feel you. I just leave them unopened and I just set a time to look a them (generally early in the morning and after lunch break).
Subash Ramalingam
just turn off all notifications including your emails and just enable ONE messaging app for work. Try It and let me know! It worked for me :)
Teju Adeyinka
0x
I turn off all notifications while I work and then check them all at once periodically.
Katerina
I know what you mean. If you can, try to block time to look at your email and only check them at that time. Communicate this with your team and let them know how they can reach you in case of emergencies. I turn off all notifications of non-essential apps (all except Whatsapp and sms)
Elysha Tonge
At first, I'd promise myself i'd only look at my notifications once every few hours, or when they build up. I've realised 75% of the notifications i'm checking are important... but not urgent. Big advocate for muting everything during focus hours :)
Kira Leigh
Literally block out everything. Turn the phone off. Step away from the email. If it's getting too much, and you have a bit of spend at all, get a VC to clear crap out. Turn off notifs for stuff you don't need/want. It's totally just a focus/time suck.
Nazim @Koinju
to start with, I block all notifications for 12 hours.After that period, I open it again and see what was really a priority.By analyzing each hour in relation to the tasks I had to do, I try to evaluate the most suitable moments in the day in order to authorize them. we rarely receive notification that justifies a response within one minute.You just have to receive them in a dedicated box with continuous authorized notifications.
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