Great list, thanks. I like the tip about disabling Slack notifications and will probably make heavier use of the “do not disturb” feature to batch notifications. My OS X dock is auto-hidden so I don’t see the red circle with the notification count.
I think the #1 highest impact thing for most people is making sure incoming emails don’t interrupt or distract them in realtime. Like seeing your Gmail tab saying “(1) Inbox”. My solution for this is to right click and do “Pin Tab” so then it only shows the Gmail logo and I can’t tell if a new message has come in.
(And obviously never enable Gmail.com or any website’s push notifications)
FYI, you can also disable the red circle from within the Slack preferences (maybe you already knew this, but if not, sorry the post wasn’t more explicit!)
Note: I was confused about this at first, but you have to change your notification preference to not show you the small red circle for every single workspace you are part of. I didn’t realize this at first and thought the feature was just broken.
Great list, thanks. I like the tip about disabling Slack notifications and will probably make heavier use of the “do not disturb” feature to batch notifications. My OS X dock is auto-hidden so I don’t see the red circle with the notification count.
I think the #1 highest impact thing for most people is making sure incoming emails don’t interrupt or distract them in realtime. Like seeing your Gmail tab saying “(1) Inbox”. My solution for this is to right click and do “Pin Tab” so then it only shows the Gmail logo and I can’t tell if a new message has come in.
(And obviously never enable Gmail.com or any website’s push notifications)
FYI, you can also disable the red circle from within the Slack preferences (maybe you already knew this, but if not, sorry the post wasn’t more explicit!)
Note: I was confused about this at first, but you have to change your notification preference to not show you the small red circle for every single workspace you are part of. I didn’t realize this at first and thought the feature was just broken.