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[Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As someone who absolutely despises notifications most of the time, I would
welcome this if done in a smart and simple way. One thing that has annoyed
me on iOS that I wish it would do is the following:

1. Notifications start streaming in when you've unlocked the screen from a
period of being off. They include things like several email notifications
in a row.
2. If I intentionally swipe the notification bubble away, that means for me
that I don't want any of the other notifications to pop up. We should be
able to do something like this.

I'd like to be able to set up slightly more intelligent do-not-disturb
profiles for different times of the day. Some examples:

1. While I'm sleep I only want to receive phone calls from those on my
favorite list, only on the second call. Everything else should be silenced.
This would be a sleep profile for me.
2. For a work time profile, I'd like to be able to explicitly whitelist
certain applications and people who can interrupt me with a notification.
Adding this alone would be amazing. Right now I'm forced to use the
one-size-fits-all do-not-disturb mode.

These are some of my thoughts. I think our notifications could even go a
few steps further and perhaps even do some real learning from behavioral
patterns of the user.

Cheers,
Jim

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Randall Ross  <randall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was having a conversation with my Ubuntu buddies recently that spawned
> some interesting ideas. I thought that the list would be a good place to
> discuss too...
>
> One thing I've observed on other competitor device platforms (phones,
> tablets) is that they don't respect the owner's finite attention.
> Interruptions (also politely called "notifications") are sent by too many
> apps for too many conditions at times that don't match the owner's
> availability of ability to deal with them. I've seen people get repeatedly
> interrupted by their device for the most mundane or irrelevant reasons,
> usually when they're with someone and don't want to be interrupted or are
> in a place (or in an activity) where notifications are awkward.
>
> What if we were to adopt, as a central tenet of our notification strategy,
> this idea:
>
> "Notify the owner only in the way s/he wishes to be notified. Default to
> being respectful."
>
> Some examples:
>
>    - Never notify me
>    - Notify me when I have the time to read and respond
>    - Notify me once per hour
>    - Notify me if someone tags a message as emergency
>    - Notify me if I'm looking at Telegram
>    - Notify me only if I am alone
>    - Notify me immediately if it's my wife/husband
>    - Notify me if I'm at work
>    - ... and
>
> Can you think of others? I imagine we could quickly generate a very long
> (and personal) list of conditions.
> Speaking personally, "Smart Interruptions" would be a true *smart* device
> feature, and a differentiator if Ubuntu were to take this on
> (foundationally, rather than as an add-on). I'd like to hear your opinions.
> Is there prior work in this area that we could leverage? Could the system
> learn what annoys us, and then not repeat an annoying interruption?
>
> Cheers,
> Randall.
>
> P.S. If people who participate in or follow the ubuntu-push-devs list can
> chime in, that would be great too :)
>
>
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