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To keep myself from getting distracted by too many notifications on my phone, I ask myself the following questions whenever a new category pops up:
Related: Who are phone notifications for?
Then I turn off what I don’t need, turn off sound on the less urgent ones, and customize sounds for the most important ones.
So I hear when a text or instant message comes in, but not email or social media. When I pick up my phone I see emails, mentions & replies, but not favorites or boosts, etc.
It helps me a lot with alert overload. YMMV.
—Kelson Vibber, 2019-06-10