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Ever since I turned-off all of my Twitter notifications, my productivity has increased a great deal.
In fact, I’ve learned to throttle back my email notifications, as well. The time that is lost between extra mouse clicks and movements, and my mind refocusing between unrelated tasks, adds-up. Not only that, but the quality of attention is crucial, too.
Here is a solid app that pushes back distractions and automatically mutes notifications with ease:
Quiet
This is nice.
Push distractions aside, silence disruptions and enter a zen like state of focus with Quiet for Mac OS X. With the push of a button, silence noisy applications and fade out all unwanted windows. It gives you that moment of peace you need to get on with work.
Features
- Focus on a single window of any application, or on a whole space.
- Fade out other windows, or bring them out of focus with the beautiful ‘Focus Out’ effect.
- Optionally use your desktop wallpaper as your focus backdrop.
- Hide the menu bar until you mouse over it.
- Optionally hide the Dock.
- Change your status in Adium and iChat to ‘busy’.
- Silence Skype through the ‘Do Not Disturb’ mode.
- Disable the ‘new mail’ sound in Apple Mail.
- Hide Growl alerts.
- Control all of the above behaviors with individual settings.
Jump onto the Quiet website to see how it works, or head straight to the Mac App Store and snag it for an easy $3.99.
Josh Collesano says
This would be fantastic. I already don’t have any audible notifications except for iCal alerts. I’d love to be able to focus more and this app would probably help.
Matt says
I really need this app to help me.
Eric Dye says
You win!
Brian Alexander says
As far as email notifications go, I only have mail open a couple of times a day. This eliminates the notification icon from showing up.
Josh Bartolomucci says
I try to keep all social networking limited to beginning and end of work day. This would be an amazing win. Retweeted here: http://twitter.com/#!/ministrypixel/status/102857632863367169
Jon Manna says
I usually need to quit my twitter desktop app (I use TweetDeck) or else I have a tendency to click on every single link that pops up.
Also the pomodoro technique has worked too (when I remember to use it).