On the subject of notifications, people are being bombarded these days. I've found that turning off most notifications helps me focus. Even Messages is turned off so that I only see them if look at the badge or go into the app.
For emails I've switched off the badge even, and I need to actively go in and look for emails in order to see if there's something new. I wholeheartedly recommend this approach.
It allows you to work or do something calmly for an hour or two without being interrupted.
Then it turns into everyone turning off all their notifications. What was originally a reasonable amount of notifications on a smartphone 5 or 7 years ago has now grown to such ridiculous amounts (often notifications for things I don't even care about) that the apps competing for my attention are cannibalize each other and consequently they've collectively destroyed the market for my attention, by me choosing to turn off all notifications.
Notifications have essentially become a "tragedy of the commons" problem. Everyone optimizing for their self interest ended up creating all losers.
Also the 2 factor and marketing emails. Despite reasonable efforts it's almost impossible to keep a non-high effort inbox zero at work and personal. At least authenticator apps are becoming a thing and adoption is rising.
But white papers post sign up and "marketing people" just flood the channel. I wish there were human only channels where any automation was banned. I guess like whatsapp.
Same concept as "can we get on a call to discuss my product". A) please dont cold call me, and if you do please just ask if now is a good time and B) as a personal rule I won't get on any call with a vendor who won't tell me how many digits his product sells for. In 2020 you can basically put your price on the website for most things or hint at a range. If you vary prices by so much at the same usage/feature level that you need to hide it from part of the customers.... theres something wrong with the product because really good vendors nowadays don't act like that.
I heard it's worse with younger peeple. The moment the doctors office gets a tablet they won't talk to anyone.
One more thing: yes I clicked on all 8 tabs of your webpage. Yes I knew you were watching on hot jar. Yes I got there white papers too even thought at best I would skim one to see how good the graphic design was. Please don't creepily make it so obvious you're tracking at the page view level. Not fun.
I have done the same for a few years now. No work on my phone either. I am not out of the loop, the loop is there whether I check for it now or at the end of the day, and got over the "Fear of Missing Out" pretty quickly.
For emails I've switched off the badge even, and I need to actively go in and look for emails in order to see if there's something new. I wholeheartedly recommend this approach.
It allows you to work or do something calmly for an hour or two without being interrupted.