Notification underload

Author says that for:

at least six different systems I rely on at work, important changes happened and I never knew about them

So just wanted to recommend ntfy.sh.

I disable notifications for things I can't control - my phone is always on D.N.D. For services I do self-host (and therefore care about!) I dial things up to 11.

There already are many things notifying me via email. But I think we need some way to send structured notifications (like for deliveries, appointments confirmations, security notifications, …) and maybe something better than email.

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I have actually discovered a solution to this problem which suffices for me. It's only on desktop, and it doesn't push notifications, but still: I haven't missed any notifications I cared about since I invented this thing. It's a folder full of bookmarks on my browser's bookmarks bar. I just bookmark every site I want to check regularly. Lobste.rs is there, and my RSS reader, and Bluesky, and so on. I frequently add or remove a site from the folder. Whenever I want to kill some time, I just right-click the folder and select "open all in tabs". If there's something I need to keep track of, like (to take an example from OP) a doctor's website, I add it to the folder until the event I await occurs, then I delete it again.

More details: https://emptysqua.re/blog/how-to-check-all-your-feeds/

A single dashboard with reliable status updates for everything modern life requires us to track and be responsible for. Bear Blog feature request? :)

Your phone's lock screen, haha only serious.

It's insane to me that Apple and Google put an inbox front and center in the pocket of every single person on the planet and have fumbled it so hard.