Decide which work notifications to turn off
Audits your apps and alerts and tells you which to switch off, batch, or keep, with the exact settings to change.
The prompt
Help me cut down the notifications that pull me away from work.
Devices: [e.g. Windows laptop, iPhone, Android]
Apps and tools that notify me: [e.g. Outlook, Teams, Slack, Jira, Asana, Salesforce, calendar, news, personal apps]
Channels or groups I'm in: [rough count, and which matter]
Things I truly cannot miss: [e.g. "my manager's DMs", "on-call alerts", "client emails"]
When notifications bother me most: [e.g. "during focus blocks", "in meetings", "evenings"]
Return:
1. Notification audit table: | App / channel | Current behavior | Decision (keep, batch, mute, turn off) | Reason |
2. Settings checklist: step-by-step changes for each app and device (banners, badges, sounds, keyword alerts, VIP lists, scheduled summary or focus modes). If you're unsure of a menu path in my version, say so rather than guessing.
3. Safety net: how the things I can't miss will still get through (VIP senders, @mention-only, priority alerts).
4. Focus profile: a work focus mode and an after-hours mode, with what each allows.
5. One-week test: what to watch for to check nothing important got missed.
Default to fewer interruptions, but never mute safety, security, or on-call alerts my job depends on.
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What to fill in
- e.g. Windows laptop, iPhone, Android
- rough count, and which matter
- e.g. "my manager's DMs", "on-call alerts", "client emails"
- e.g. "during focus blocks", "in meetings", "evenings"
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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