give it a try
The constant stream of notifications does not distinguish well what’s important and too much of it ends up in the Important/Urgent quadrant.
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Such changes of course would be counter productive to the business model of many social apps which use intermittent rewards to create easy to exploit addictive behaviors allowing them to monetize on the unregulated resource of human attention. This includes establishing addiction in children, as a business model.
Attention is one of the most valuable assets human beings have. Focused attention + time are two of the pillars of any achievement and becoming. Robbing humanity of its power to become and achieve is not a healthy or sustainable source of profit.
The groundwork is here with the channel API anyway.
Apps can declare as many channels as they want in order to post notifications there.
For exemple a music app will have the music channel (duh) and maybe a push discovery one.
The developper sets whatever property they want for these channels, but the users can override them. You can for example change the priority, sound or even completely hide them.
But a more granular approach means more complex configuration.
Instagram should notify me about my fiancee’s feed. FB messenger should notify me when I get a message from my company’s page or one containing a family emergency. When I leave the office priorities would swap.
I should be able to easily schedule office hours, and notify people when I’d be available, similar to some of the features related to driving right now.
And, a powerful AI will read my mind and tweak the settings for me ;)
A dev can dynamically create channels.
Communication apps is the best application indeed, some of them (for example TelegramX) already leverage this by creating one channel for each of your contacts.
So my gf has an 'interrupts do not disturb' rule while my noisy friend on a time zone can't make my phone ping.
Now it is up to devs to leverage this and implement this in all the apps.
If it starts to become common enough, it looks like an AI could classify these signals based on how you interact with them.
But I think you want one of the sides to say "Important / Not Important", "Urgent / Not Urgent".
The Eisenhower Decision Matrix.
https://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2013/10/Eisenhowe...
The Android P beta has changed the way do not disturb works by default, though. Now it doesn't show the notifications at all. Previously, on Oreo, my phone wouldn't vibrate or ring but I could still swipe down from the top and see my notifications.
Now, on P, nothing shows up in the notification tray until you turn do not disturb off, and then you will get a million notifications all at once.
Personally, I like the old model better. I missed a few text messages because I didn't know they weren't being shown anymore. I like being able to glance at the notifications when I want without having to toggle do not disturb off.
Luckily, you can switch back to the old behavior by going to Sound -> DO Not Disturb -> Block Visual Disturbances -> Hide from notification list.
Using that meant I gradually checked the phone on "my terms" and overtime reduced it rather significantly.
like you i find them annoying as well but keep important ones like appointments and such.