[andrei_says_]

That’s where it’s at.

The constant stream of notifications does not distinguish well what’s important and too much of it ends up in the Important/Urgent quadrant.

                Important | Urgent
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                          |
    Important             | 
                          |
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                          |
    Urgent                | 
                          |

I hope we'll start seeing more app- and os-level tools to sort out notifications into the correct quadrant. This is where I'd welcome AI-based solutions. Gmail already offers me to unsubscribe from un-opened newsletters. Can't wait for a She-like AI-assistant who would take on the drudgery of my inbox.

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.

[on_and_off]

I suspect Android is pushing more and more in that direction. I have not seen it in the announcements but one of the features I sea on the P beta is that when I dismiss a notification, the OS might ask me : 'you often display these notification, should I continue displaying them ?'

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.

[andrei_says_]

The thing is, not all content in a channel is created equal, so maybe one day we’ll see a more granular approach.

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 ;)

[on_and_off]

the API is also there for that :)

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.

[ghostbrainalpha]

That's neat how you did a matrix in the comment!

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...

[andrei_says_]

Yes, that’s what I had in mind, thank you. Tried to simplify for mobile view.