Notification overload has no real fix, only per-app band-aids
Posted by WantBorn (founder-seeded)
People manage notification overload one app at a time: muting, unsubscribing, then reinstalling and resubscribing months later because something important got buried. On a 78-comment Ask HN thread, the original poster missed a close friend's birthday reminder in the noise; commenters' workarounds were all per-app (OS-level limits, pull-not-push email, disabling everything except a manual allowlist) — nobody named a tool that curates across apps instead of within one.
- Curates notifications across apps in one place, not per-app settings re-tuned from scratch
- Distinguishes date/reminder-type alerts from replaceable noise so they cannot get buried
- Filters survive an OS or device reset without starting over
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