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[Julia Palandri <julia.palandri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've also thought about this. When I put my phone to "silent", it still got
vibrations activated and it makes a hell of a noise anyway. I can configure
them, from another screen. And in any case, there are times for vibrations,
and times for total silence. Notifications for emails don't go away even if
I open my "inbox" (with gmail webapp), and I might be
intesreted/uninterested from getting notifications from one email account
or another during weekdays and weekends. I'd love a way to fine tweak all
this things, depending on how available I am, because when I'm busy I might
not busy for everyone, and reversely, when I'm free I still might not want
some notifications depending on the time of day.
If we manage to do this it could really be groundbreaking I think :)


On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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Julia