Customizing Notifications
An app notification is a message that appears in the upper-right corner of the screen when an application has information to impart. This could be a new text message or email, or a message letting you know some operation has completed.
App notifications can be useful if you want to know what’s going on in another app without having to switch to that app. However, app notifications can also distract you from your current work by focusing your attention elsewhere. That is, not only do you take your eye off your current task to view the notification, but the notification message itself might cause you to begin thinking about the content of the message.
If you find that a certain app is particularly distracting (either in ...
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