[malikNF]

A better alternative that doesn't annoy your loved ones would be, to connect your phone to a smart watch.

Keep the phone on silent enable notifications on the watch. You get to keep an eye out for anything important while being away from the phone takes a bit of effort to reply immediately.

Im using an older garmin watch and it works perfectly, it even has a silent zone setting so I never get disturbed when I sleep. Also has a really neat feature where I can ask the watch to ping my phone if I cant find it, so when I get an important message and I need to find the phone I could quickly find it.

[burntwater]

I find people constantly looking at their watches while having a conversation to be incredibly annoying.

With my phone, all I have to do is reach into my pocket and hit to volume button to stop the vibration, I never need to break eye contact with the people I'm talking to. With a watch, they seem to always have to look down at it, even if they're dismissing the notification.

[freedomben]

I have a Pixel watch and that covers about 25% of the notifications. Texts it's good for, calls it's great for, Slack it's meh for, email it's terrible for. There are more, but suffice it to say, it's not the silver bullet you make it out to be.

[brewdad]

Ugh. I can't imagine having phone notifications on for email. To me, the whole point of email is that it isn't an urgent matter.

[delecti]

I think there's a useful distinction with silent notifications. I think someone would have to be crazy to get a beep or buzz for an incoming email, but a notification dot I can check when I see it won't unduly grab my attention.