at the end of your working day, shut down every app on your machine.[…]Then, spend ten or perhaps fifteen minutes reflecting on your day.[…]Then, in the morning, when you open up your machine, there should be nothing yelling at you—no unread badges, no cluster of notifications calling for your attention. At that point, you can reverse the practice, and spend a few minutes thinking ahead to the day that you want to have.
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Can confirm this works. I started doing something similar earlier this year. I don’t close apps, but ignore them all, turning on do-not-disturb if Slack is being too noisy. I found the early morning practice more helpful than the end-of-day, but perhaps that’s just because I find the latter harder to do.