How do you handle notification fatigue?

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!

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 :)

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).

It is sometimes not possible to see every notification that comes and with laziness and sometimes work , we clear every notification , for that there are some apps available on playstore which save notification and we can read from that.

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.

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

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.

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 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)

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

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 :)

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.

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.

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

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 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.

One of the weekly tasks I have is to remove friction. Basically the goal is to identify every thing that causes friction and a way to eliminate it by automating or delegating. On emails this can be achieved by reducing the amount of emails you receive. A slack channel for example is a good way to reduce the need for emails. One example, on our support we'd get an email notification every time a new helpdesk ticket was produced. By shifting this into slack, we don't get any email notifications, instead we have a dedicated channel on slack and a daily planned block of time dedicated to that channel. Before: 100 emails arriving at random intervals with requests After: 0 emails, all requests added in support channel, plus a planned time of day to look at it Let's think outside the traditional box that ends up with 100 email folders. :)

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 :)

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