Build a Notification Triage Rule
Create a practical notification rule from cue, cost, and exception.
A blanket notification shutdown is too brittle because it removes useful prompts along with distracting ones. Behavior = motivation + ability + prompt. Digital wellbeing improves when only the right prompts are easy to act on. The common shortcut is “mute everything,” which feels clean until one real exception proves the system unsafe. Before All apps can interrupt; then all apps are muted; then trust collapses after one missed escalation. After Only time-bound, role-critical, and pre-defined exception prompts interrupt. Everything else waits for a batch. List prompts Calendar, incident channel, vendor email, DMs, newsletters, social apps. You cannot design what…
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