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This is actually something that I have really never seen done in a good way anywhere ever, but always imagined / seemed inevitable. It seems like it would be natural to have a single notification platform that all applications feed into, with basic functionality like filtering, aggregation (i.e., you have received 100 'disk is full errors' in past 6 hours, starting at 10pm' instead of a screen full of all hundred errors), muting (Dave has promised to clean up the disk by the end of the day, ignore 'disk is full' messages on that particular disk until 9a tomorrow morning), notifications that expire/disappear when they are no longer relevant, and streaming/syncing to a desktop app, mobile, etc, etc. I have seen decent implementations of notifications with aggregation/muting/etc as part of monitoring applications or embedded into sophisticated applications, but it seems like it would be good to just enforce this org-wide, make all the apps feed into it, make vendors integrate, and give people a single inbox. To some extent RSS was a primitive version of this, but there was a time when many apps provided RSS feeds (and many still do), and you can collate a lot of it into a single inbox with some effort. Unfortunately... it always seems to boil down to involve email notifications, which are woefully inadequate due to the lack of the obvious features above, and drown out actual human communication. |