Si hay un tema con el que todos podemos relacionarnos en este momento, es el estrés y, por asociación, la razón. No estoy hablando necesariamente de la ansiedad por los giros y vueltas políticos de esta semana, sino más bien de la lucha constante por el equilibrio entre el trabajo y la vida personal y cómo estos dispositivos en nuestro mono hacen que siempre sea difícil desconectar.
It's definitely something I've spent a lot of time thinking about and trying to improve over the years. And one area where I've managed to make significant strides lately is Android notifications.
Notifications are one of a smartphone's greatest powers, but also one of its biggest potential drawbacks, at least as far as our current subject of reason goes. After all, when you're focused at work, having an important alert, buzz, or buzz on your screen takes you away from everything you're doing, demands your attention, and makes sure you know what's going on. But when it's the weekend or the night, well, the exact same sequence happens: the alert takes you away from whatever you're doing, demands your attention, and makes sure you know what's going on.
Maybe sometimes you want it. But I bet just as often it doesn't. And with Android's native notification management tools, you're essentially faced with a black-and-white, all-or-nothing decision: have all the typical app notifications continue to alert you during hours of inactivity. - or have all notifications. I left
Here in the real world, things are not always so binary. And I'm happy to report that I've found a way to provide much-needed nuance and granular control over how your notifications are handled when you try to log out (at least a little).
The secret comes down to a super smart and carefully designed app called FilterBox. Savvy readers will recall that I mentioned the application in passing in a few other contexts earlier (and these beautiful human specimens should take a short break to get a grape soda and/or a sticky bun as a reward for their tonsils. exceptional). Today, however, we focus on a different part of the app's purpose, and a different role it can play in your life.
FilterBox, in short, allows you to create complex rules, just like Gmail's filters for notifications from your phone. These rules then determine exactly what types of notifications may reach you in different types of circumstances.
So, for example, certain types of messages are usually set to notify me whenever they arrive in Gmail. These messages should grab my attention during the working day, as they are a priority for me and the letters to which I always try to respond as quickly as possible.
The same thing, however, ends up happening at night or on weekends, and as a result, I end up looking at these messages and usually try to reply to them, although I could usually wait until the next morning (or on weekdays). ) without any problem.
At the same time, I have other types of incoming emails that I want to receive notifications for regardless of time or day.
With FilterBox, all I have to do is create a rule so that these exceptions will always generate normal alerts during my off-peak hours, while all other Gmail notifications will be automatically dismissed when I'm in that same window.
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JR This rule, above, is designed specifically to deal with evening and night hours. And all it takes is creating a second, identical one for weekend days, to address that part of the equation:
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JR As you can see from these screenshots, there's room for a lot more nuance in these notification rules. I could tell FilterBox to allow all notifications from an app whenever my screen is on, for example, or, in a particularly intriguing twist, I could ask the app to simply turn off or even snooze a notification instead of dismissing it outright when certain settings apply.
That way, if there's a specific type of notification you want but doesn't need to be interrupted right away, you can turn it off during certain days and times, but know that it always will be. there and visible every time you look at your phone (and know that during your actual business hours, it will automatically notify you with the normal alert sound and vibration pattern). Or if there's a specific type of notification you want to be sure to see but prefer to hit the next morning, you can do that too.
The last possibility is something I'm currently testing with Slack. That way, incoming non-urgent work-related messages won't disrupt my evening or weekend hours, because they don't need to be dealt with right away anyway, but since I'll feel obligated to respond to them if I notice and instead I'll be there early the next morning.
But then again, the nice thing is that you can choose exactly which types of notifications in any app behave in which way, well, any particularly important alert you need to see and handle, no matter what time or what moment. day, it can always happen. through and demand your attention. And once you've got everything set up just the way you want, everything will work automatically, from then on, no mode changes or adjustments.
Filtering shouldn't be limited to work-related items, either: you can use it to turn off news notifications after certain hours (or even turn off news notifications with exceptions for specific keywords during those hours. ), to push back notifications from personal chat apps or other non-essential services so you won't be bothered until the end of the workday, or pretty much whatever comes to mind in your madly wet head.
Oh, and one more thing: in addition to filtering, FilterBox includes a much richer and more useful notification history option than the native equivalent built into Android 11, as it can make up to 30 days of notifications available and discoverable and then you allows you to recover and interact with what you accidentally dispose of.
And if you're concerned about privacy (which you should be!), the app developer is transparent that FilterBox includes network access permission, but no notification details are ever provided. transmitted. (Network access is only used for bug reporting and analysis and can be turned off entirely in the app's settings, if you're so inspired.) The app also allows you to protect your settings and history. with facial recognition or a fingerprint to make sure that even if someone ever has your old greasy gloves on your phone, they won't be able to see your information.
FilterBox costs four dollars after a 30-day free trial. To me, at least, this is shaping up to be a small price to pay for an immeasurable amount of sanity being restored.
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JR This rule, above, is designed specifically to deal with evening and night hours. And all it takes is creating a second, identical one for weekend days, to address that part of the equation:
JR As you can see from these screenshots, there's room for a lot more nuance in these notification rules. I could tell FilterBox to allow all notifications from an app whenever my screen is on, for example, or, in a particularly intriguing twist, I could ask the app to simply turn off or even snooze a notification instead of dismissing it outright when certain settings apply.
That way, if there's a specific type of notification you want but doesn't need to be interrupted right away, you can turn it off during certain days and times, but know that it always will be. there and visible every time you look at your phone (and know that during your actual business hours, it will automatically notify you with the normal alert sound and vibration pattern). Or if there's a specific type of notification you want to be sure to see but prefer to hit the next morning, you can do that too.
The last possibility is something I'm currently testing with Slack. That way, incoming non-urgent work-related messages won't disrupt my evening or weekend hours, because they don't need to be dealt with right away anyway, but since I'll feel obligated to respond to them if I notice and instead I'll be there early the next morning.
But then again, the nice thing is that you can choose exactly which types of notifications in any app behave in which way, well, any particularly important alert you need to see and handle, no matter what time or what moment. day, it can always happen. through and demand your attention. And once you've got everything set up just the way you want, everything will work automatically, from then on, no mode changes or adjustments.
Filtering shouldn't be limited to work-related items, either: you can use it to turn off news notifications after certain hours (or even turn off news notifications with exceptions for specific keywords during those hours. ), to push back notifications from personal chat apps or other non-essential services so you won't be bothered until the end of the workday, or pretty much whatever comes to mind in your madly wet head.
Oh, and one more thing: in addition to filtering, FilterBox includes a much richer and more useful notification history option than the native equivalent built into Android 11, as it can make up to 30 days of notifications available and discoverable and then you allows you to recover and interact with what you accidentally dispose of.
And if you're concerned about privacy (which you should be!), the app developer is transparent that FilterBox includes network access permission, but no notification details are ever provided. transmitted. (Network access is only used for bug reporting and analysis and can be turned off entirely in the app's settings, if you're so inspired.) The app also allows you to protect your settings and history. with facial recognition or a fingerprint to make sure that even if someone ever has your old greasy gloves on your phone, they won't be able to see your information.
FilterBox costs four dollars after a 30-day free trial. To me, at least, this is shaping up to be a small price to pay for an immeasurable amount of sanity being restored.
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