Nothing urgent: A System for Deciding Which Notifications Deserve to Interrupt You

Your phone buzzes fifty, eighty, a hundred times a day. Almost none of it is actually urgent. Yet it's all treated the same way: same sound, same red badge, same jolt of forced attention, whether it's your kid's school or a shopping app pretending your cart is about to expire.Most advice says to turn everything off. That works for about two weeks, until a real emergency gets buried in the silence ...