[ralfhn]

To each their own but I found the opposite to be true. Coding or trying to focus on one one task while chat/email notifications are popping up left and right is very disruptive. I went down from two monitors to one and I'm very happy with the decision.

[mynameisvlad]

One benefit I've had from an ultrawide monitor is that notifications will generally go unnoticed. I just bought a 49" ultrawide (essentially two 27" monitors side by side) and the notification area is so far into my peripheral vision I regularly miss messages.

[ethbr0]

I guess this is my experience as well.

Previously, I felt like I had two choices: (1) mute+hide all notifications, or (2) leave them visible/alerting.

Now, there's (3) leave them visible, but outside my focus.

Physically turning my focus to bring them into view, whenever I have a break, seems to work better than either of the other two.