Notifications steal my attention, time, and productivity. There are direct notifications like desktop alerts in Outlook (e.g. email, appointment reminders) or more subtle ones like badge icons on your mobile device (e.g. unread text messages). If you're anything like me, you like have clean inboxes - email, texts, app updates, etc. These notifications can at times distract the hell out of me. Rather than develop the discipline to ignore them, I programmed them out of my life.
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