Taking Control of Notifications to Take Back Your Attention
Receiving a reminder of an upcoming meeting or task from our smartphones can be a great way to remember to be somewhere to get something done on time. Â All too often, however, our smartphones beep, flash, and vibrate at us every few minutes to provide us with information we don’t really need. Â And we know that regaining our attention after such a distraction can take ten minutes or more, particularly if we were engaged in deep thought when interrupted.
