Number of notifications per day,
Notifications on given hours, nighttime, work time etc,
Notifications by application(!),
Number of minutes/hours allowed per application before it goes into blocked state till the next day, break or end of work,
Priority of notifications,
Daily summary of notifications etc etc.
It helped me to cut down mobile screen time from like to 40m.
PS2 : Install Brave browser - it blocks all ads, popups and cookie questions forever. AND it let's you play youtube in the background
* SMS (and WhatsApp) for direct communications (disabled for an hour or two when seeking flow).
* Phone calls from family and close friends (filter disabled for a few hours when expecting an important call from elsewhere)
* Mentions and DMs on Slack (work hours only)
* Calendar
* Occasional temporary exceptions (Airbnb and airline apps during travel and a few days before/after; Taskrabbit the day before and day of a task; food delivery when expecting one, etc.)
Everything else I try to be notified of through email, which is easier to manage on a pull rather than push basis. I DO NOT allow email notifications. That’s begging for a deluge.
The default when an app or site asks to send me push notifications is a hard NO.
On Android you have stock Digital Wellbeing app.
You can limit many things such us:
Number of notifications per day, Notifications on given hours, nighttime, work time etc, Notifications by application(!), Number of minutes/hours allowed per application before it goes into blocked state till the next day, break or end of work, Priority of notifications, Daily summary of notifications etc etc.
It helped me to cut down mobile screen time from like to 40m.
PS2 : Install Brave browser - it blocks all ads, popups and cookie questions forever. AND it let's you play youtube in the background
If you want to remember dates, how about a calendar printed on paper? A filofax?
Generally these days, the best solution is one that doesn't involve computers and big tech.
I don't have email hooked to my phone directly. If I do need it, I fire up gmail in a browser.
I don't have twitter, facebook, or any of the other apps that came by default. If I need those, I fire up chrome and use the web interface.
One exception is Discord, for contacting my child, but it doesn't start by default, and all the notifications are off for it as well.
Only texts and actual phone calls alert me.
I disable all notifications except for:
* SMS (and WhatsApp) for direct communications (disabled for an hour or two when seeking flow).
* Phone calls from family and close friends (filter disabled for a few hours when expecting an important call from elsewhere)
* Mentions and DMs on Slack (work hours only)
* Calendar
* Occasional temporary exceptions (Airbnb and airline apps during travel and a few days before/after; Taskrabbit the day before and day of a task; food delivery when expecting one, etc.)
Everything else I try to be notified of through email, which is easier to manage on a pull rather than push basis. I DO NOT allow email notifications. That’s begging for a deluge.
The default when an app or site asks to send me push notifications is a hard NO.
This volume of notifications is very manageable.