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[Darren Hoyland <darren.hoyland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe it could implement something like how logging levels work, with
different levels of severity:

TRACE < DEBUG < INFO < WARN < ERROR < FATAL

In this case, maybe notifications could have:

INFO < PRIORITYINFO < IMPORTANT < URGENT

and the default would be INFO. The app writer would be able to promote
their notifications only as high as PRIORITYINFO, with the top two
being reserved for the user. There could then be a way for the user to
add the notification for each app to a higher group if necessary. Then
they could set their interruptions level.

Just a thought...


On 31 March 2016 at 13:09, Julia Palandri <julia.palandri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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