Notifications are evil!

How notifications make you unproductive… Find out which ones cost you time and which ones add value to your workflow!

We all know this scenario: We check our phone and have 20 new messages on our favorite messenger. Eighteen of them are completely useless because they are only some images or videos that should be funny. Let’s be honest — they are not. 99% of the time, they are a pure waste of time, and we do not enjoy them. We might laugh at that moment, but in the end, it will not have an impact on our lives besides the fact that they steel us valuable time.

The significant advantage when you disable your notifications is that you will watch less of these kinds of videos. Simply because you will go into your messenger or social media app, and you will subconsciously set yourself a limit of let’s say two minutes to reply to messages. Therefore you will pick only the important ones which are messages by your friends with some proper content, and you will refuse to watch the unimportant media you received by some groups or someone else.

Notifications make these contents more interesting. Especially groups are dangerous because often there are multiple people sending messages after one another, and therefore we feel like something important must be going on. So we check our phones. If we disabled notifications for that messenger, we would not get disturbed by them while doing productive work. We would check the groups when we want to. If something is notable, people will call us when we did not respond to their message.

The reason why we should disable messenger notifications is that if something is crucial, people will contact us in another way.

This one is very related to messengers because social media apps want us to stay on their platform as long and as often as possible. Therefore they would send us notifications on our phones if someone has posted something new or starts a live video or anything similar to that. As those notifications trigger us, we will go and have a look — unless we do not grant permission for those apps to send a notification.

Of course, social media apps connect us to other people or companies we know, and that is nice. But in the end, they will consume lots of our time! So follow the right content. Of course, prank videos can be fun. But to me, as a UX Designer seeing some beautiful designs in my feed is way more exciting! And those designs will not be gone if I have a look on social media later and not because a notification told me to watch them right now.

It might sound old-school, but mails play a significant role in business life! Every client I will get into contact with will give me his or her mail address, and they will receive mine, too. What will you find on every website? A mail address, phone number, and a postal address. So allow your mail app to send you a notification. In business, time is money, the quicker you respond to emails, the better it is for you. So you have to be available via mail all the time.

Furthermore, you must never be too late. It has happened to the best of us, right. But there are things we can do to avoid being too late. And a straightforward one is to allow your calendar to send you notifications. If you have a meeting, it will send you a notification when you have to leave the office to be there on time, and off you go. It can be as simple as that, and you will never be too late.

So think about which applications add value to you if they send you a notification and which ones don’t and give them permission appropriately. Please remember to always keep pushing! Have a good one!

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