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[sethhochberg]

I don't have a Windows solution to the "mute everything for presentations" problem, but for anyone on macOS: option-click on the clock / notification section in the menu bar and you'll put yourself into Do Not Disturb mode. Option-click the clock again to disable.

The discoverability of that shortcut isn't great but it has become one of my favorite macOS features.

[kogus → sethhochberg]

I believe the Windows equivalent is to click on the Calendar in the Taskbar, and select the "Focus" triangle

Reference:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-use-focus...

Amusingly, the first thing it does is put a big countdown clock on your screen, counting down the time till your "focus" ends. Otherwise it works pretty well.

[bouke → sethhochberg]

Except for Teams not respecting this setting and forcefully projects its own ugly notifications nonetheless.