Re: How did you solve the Android excess-notification problem?

Arlen,

So I'd like to cut down on notifications to the absolute essentials.
>
But how?

Start with realizing that you are fully at the mercy of whomever is sending
those notifications.  The app decides the frequency as well as the class of
them.  If the app itself doesn't allow you to adjust either/both than there
is nothing you can do - other than to hope that your OS has a setting to
deal with it, something you seem to have indicated you already looked at.

And thats assuming you are talking about the usefullnes of a certain class
of notifications, and not the usefullness (to you) of the contents of
notifications within a certain class.

And I think you can imagine the problem with blocking a certain class of
notifications because you don't like the, for example, "heads-up"
notifcations of one specific app. :-|

Have you already looked in the specific apps settings ?

And perhaps someone already wrote a "notification firewall".   You could do
worse than to do a websearch for it.

(but not silly notifications like "you haven't used this app in a while"
notifications - which - I do get at times)

Those are generated by the OS.   I would suggest you to look in the
OS-specific settings.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser