Notifications - how do you deal with them ?

For me the only notifications I have setup are:
The phone - ringer on
Omnifoucs- time based events/actions
iCal - for appointments

I personally feel the less notifications I see/hear for more in tuned I am with the current work I'm doing. This might sound super obvious, but by turning off as many "notifications " as possible I just super useful.

So how do you deal with notifications ?

I used to have lots of notifications going off but have turned most of them off. I now just have iCal and Todo providing alerts on the iPhone. Everything else is off, including email arrival notifications. I will look when I want to!

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Originally Posted by Tado

So how do you deal with notifications ?

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only 3 on my iPhone, the phone ringer itself, although I will turn it off or ignore it, the one that says a text message has come in although I will ignore that too if I'm busy and ones from iCal on very rare occasions, like maybe once a month or so I set something that has an alarm.

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Originally Posted by Oogiem

only 3 on my iPhone, the phone ringer itself, although I will turn it off or ignore it, the one that says a text message has come in although I will ignore that too if I'm busy and ones from iCal on very rare occasions, like maybe once a month or so I set something that has an alarm.

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My approach is similar. The only notifications I use are:

• Nokia E71 incoming phone call
• Nokia E71 incoming SMS
• Nokia E71 calendar alarm (for time-based actions and appointments)
• Nokia E71 alarm clock at 4:46 am

I have a few non-core apps providing notifications for things like travel, tv and weather. They don't bother me at all. Is the issue really social media notifications? I pretty much ignore social media, because of the low utility and the privacy issues.