frustration, mental health
It's really frustrating that whenever I try to take a day off Stuff, I end up spending sometimes hours responding to people trying to ping me, just to tell them that I am having a day off, and by the time things finally quiet down, half the day is already over
Because I need the notification icon to go away, but I also need my Matrix client open, and it distracts me not just for the initial message but also for every follow-up question and "OK" etc. afterwards, and Element doesn't provide any granular notification controls, and it takes me a large amount of time to refocus on what I actually *want* to do, and it *also* doesn't have a reasonable way for me to mark myself as "do not disturb"
And like, none of the individual people pinging me are at fault for this, but with all of them together it becomes an exhausting and unmanageable deluge of notifications, and the tech is just Not. Fucking. Working. For. Me.
frustration, mental health
@joepie91 I feel that my ability to ignore notification icons is a superpower, like a built in YOMO.
Do notification icons have a bigger effect on neurodivergents?
re: frustration, mental health
@jornane That is very common, yes. For me, that little insistent red dot or badge might only take up 12x12 pixels of screen space, but it *feels* like it's 100x100 pixels and overlapping everything else, because my brain magnifies it as "a thing to pay attention to"
