Turn off notifications so you don't feel the urge to check your social media accounts and lose your concentration and momentum.
That means you can have sensitive information hidden, you can
turn off notifications for entire apps, and when a notification comes in, a double tap will open the app.
Receiving my nomination for best single change making the biggest difference in my life is the ability to
now turn off notifications in the settings screen!
There are five options to control notifications in Windows 10, though unfortunately you can
not turn off notification sounds.
The easiest way to tell if this is the case with an app is to check its notification options: if you have to specify a «refresh» or «update» interval, the app or service isn't using push notifications, and you're probably best
off turning off notifications for that app entirely.
The launcher, spotted by XDA - Developers, differs from the standard Rootless Pixel Launcher by using less RAM, always featuring a 4 × 4 app grid, disabling widgets, and
turning off notification dots.
Tweak and schedule the blue light filter,
turn off the notification LED, change the look of the always - on display (or turn it off), whatever you want to do.
In the launcher settings, you can
turn off the notification swipe if you want but also turn off the Android Nougat long - press app shortcuts if you find them annoying.
It goes without saying that a good night's sleep, a calm mind and an absence of distractions on the day will improve your performance, but remember, this will also
mean turning off the notifications on your phone.
Prescott recommends having a clutter - free background,
turning off notification noises on your phone and computer, removing pets from the area and hiring a sitter for your children.
Which means, according to DBW, that the company is positioning itself as being focused on the reading experience, especially with features such as «Reading Mode,» which allows the user, among other things, to
turn off notifications from other apps on its tablets to keep distractions at a minimum.
To minimize these distractions, Rosen recommends checking email every 15 or 30 minutes and
turning off notifications in the times in between.
You can also
turn off notifications for each app that bugs you — I really only have three or four that continually notify me that something's going on, including Facebook, Messages and GroupMe.
Serial gamers will like the «Gaming Do Not Disturb Mode»,
which turns off notifications and can be invoked when specific apps run or turned on manually.