Recently I decided to turn off all my notifications on my phones and my computers. I was afraid to try it for fear of missing something important, but...
Notifications do everything they can to get your attention. They appear, they flash, they vibrate, they chime. They don’t let you ignore them.
No matter how you look at it, the point of a notification is to get you to pay attention to something other than what you’re doing. But there are lots of times when you need constant, unbroken attention to get something done effectively.
Now I pay more attention to the world around me :)
A Life Less Blurry