How do you handle notification fatigue?

The only apps on my phone that are able to send me notifications are the Phone and Calendar apps. Means I decide when to check my phone for new emails/messages etc – highly recommend

Silence everything. Your brain thinks it wants notifications, the same way it thinks it wants nicotine. If you turn them all off, checking your apps (and your inbox) becomes a lot more mundane (because it's more work to check). All off. Not off for a bit.. then you'll start anticipating when they'll be back.

Riddle me this, Batman. What percentage of notifications fall into the "must absolutely respond now" category. I think you will find that people can wait until your "email office hours" are in session. Let them know when this response window is open and then _release your mind_.

I try to disconnect from my devices in general when I get a bit overwhelmed. I don't like turning off notifications cause then I feel I'm missing something important trying to "reset". So just put everything down and going for a walk helps me :)

Remove them all then slowly start adding them back 1 by 1

Aggressively use the "unsubscribe" button for any unwanted notifications. If it's missing or requires more than a single confirmation click, use "Report Spam".

unsubscribe or block every unwanted email as and when they come. And star the one's that are important, so you don't take time to reply those. Email is still fine, I receive about *100 promotional SMS every day* (no exaggeration) and there is no way I can stop those. Any solution for that? Im using an iOS device.

I have ALL notifications off except for the Phone and iMessage (when on my iPhone) and after work / on weekends I carry the light phone with me, so no notifications that way either. I check email twice a day and it's more than enough. If something is super urgent they'd call me. Also I noticed that when I "just go on Twitter" without seeing the notifications it's more fun to see some people liked / retweeted something ;) A surprise!

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)

turn off what's not important

Remove the tools which send too many notification. Work in asynchonous mode for the remaining tool.

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.

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.

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).

I have turned off notifications of almost all applications. Check them occassionally mostly after lunch and evenings when fatigue from work kicks in.

Pomodoro technique is the best way to do that for you mentally as well - you will train yourself to not depend on the notifications. Also, muting useless topics in chats will help as well :)

Remove all email notifications and reserve several slots in your agenda to check emails and reply. Best productivity hack ever !

Report spam and unsubscribe! There's so much noise in the signal.

I have muted notifications and are moving to services that are not using pointless notifications and support addictive behaviour. I'm also trying to build humane business platform myself to give an alternative to these platforms that are built on humane weaknesses. I think we can do so much better. <3