Try a day or even a week with no notifications at all and see what happens. That’s why the best time to read email (and enable email notifications) is during designated work hours when we are in a position to respond. Not only do we feel pressured to be available around the clock, but often we get information that we can’t act on outside of work-generating stress we can’t quickly resolve. And research is proving that this is doing us real harm. Unplug from email outside of workįor many of us, the persistent deluge of email presents the biggest challenge in notification management. Work with all your content in one place using Dropbox Paper 6. In this notification-free bubble, you can be fully present for the work that is essential, until it is complete. On your phone, use Do Not Disturb or airplane mode. At your computer, quit Facebook and Instagram and mute all sound and visual alerts for texts, emails, collaboration tools, and calendar updates.
Notification blackouts are an effective way to protect your power hours for high-stakes work. Then you can easily turn notifications for these batched apps on and off to support one focused activity or goal at a time and tune out the rest. Or you can organize by goals: lose weight, reach this month’s sales goal, write a bestseller. To further parse the necessary from the noise, try grouping apps by theme, such as work, commute, family, dating, entertainment, travel, health, and so on. What’s important in general may not be critical at this moment. And you could put all entertainment notifications on pause until after hours. Those that are important could have visual cues, without sound. For example, you could use sounds, badges, or vibrations for urgent notifications. Once you’ve mapped out your priorities, you can give each app its own notification tone or type to match.
The Eisenhower Matrix is one popular formula you might use to decide what matters, when. Sometimes it’s urgent to get your team’s feedback in advance of a deadline, important to know who you promised to call at 11:30, but not so critical to catch the play-by-play ballgame stats. In reality, there’s much nuance to what you need to know, and when. Notifications can create a constant feeling of urgency. Distinguish between urgent, important, and irrelevant Struggling to disengage? Consider driving with the phone in the trunk, sleeping with it in the kitchen, or leaving it at home during your romantic night out. Which explains why it’s so tempting to engage with our phones, even when this jeopardizes important self-care, tasks, or relationships. The unpredictable nature of notifications can be as addictive as slot machines. Consider a notification reboot that puts every beep, badge, and vibration in service to your work and your life.
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