Do not disturb mode
Andrew Rasmussen
Is there some way I can turn on a "do not disturb" mode to disable notifications for a certain period of time? This way I can get shit done without receiving desktop notifications about email. I suppose I could just close Missive too. But that feels so wrong!
I'm not sure if this is the right feature for Missive to build, might be bloat-y. Worth noting that Slack has a do not disturb mode with a time to become active again. Would love to hear your team's thoughts.
Philippe Lehoux
This blog post explores how you can set something similar with a rule: https://missiveapp.com/blog/how-to-receive-emails-in-batches
Geoff Ball
Philippe Lehoux: It's a good article, but unless I'm missing something it doesn't work for conversations within Missive. As far as I can tell a rule can only replace do not disturb for emails.
Philippe Lehoux
Geoff Ball: You are right
Tom Dobson
Philippe Lehoux: It's a good post, but for me - batching the emails just skirts around a scheduled Do not Disturb mode.
For example, of an evening I don't want push notifications on my phone, but from time to time, I may want to actively check my emails. With that batching setup enabled, I wouldn't see anything sat in the inbox until the next morning, unless I go looking in the snoozed folder. So it's not ideal. Also as Geoff mentioned - conversations from team mates should also be muted until your set working hours again.
It would be really helpful for Missive to have a 'Focus Mode' where you can turn on and it stops notifications for the next hour or two, working along side a scheduled Do Not Disturb. E.g. 18:00 to 08:00 Mon-Fri and all day on weekends.
This would be more important now with a bigger uplift in home working for myself and our teams to get a healthy work/life balance.
Tom Dobson
This would work well if you could set do not disturb for just a few hours to focus, or even regularly for say evenings (18:00 to 08:00) and all day on weekends.
This would be across mobile and desktop too.
See how the outlook iOS app does it
Philippe Lehoux
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Tom Dobson
Philippe Lehoux: any chance this could be back on your radar? A scheduled Do Not Disturb time would really help with a working from home work/life balance.
It’s really helpful to get notifications on missive through working hours on my phone and laptop. But say after 6pm I’d rather not get any but I can still check my emails if I want to.
David Huck
Would love something like this, even the slack style 1 hr,2hr, 8hr... 24 hr is great
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Alec Wenzowski
Is it possible to read the OS X do not disturb state? There are way too many apps to individually toggle them all, and it would be super cool to slack-style notify teammates that someone had do not disturb turned on at message delivery time
Robert Merrill
If anything, can I have a VIP contact list that gives me notifications for those people, but not others?
Rafael Masson
Note that right now, if using the Mac app, you can enable Notification Center’s built-in Do Not Disturb mode.
Andrew Rasmussen
Ooh didn't know about this feature, thanks!
Rafael Masson
We do plan on releasing such a feature at some point. Not a big priority, but it’s definitely relevant. A way to focus while leaving the app opened, so you can see what’s new if you do want to check Missive. Just no notifs to bother you when you don’t.
Laurence Cope
Rafael Masson: I do not think it should just be notifications. Something I have been banging the drum for years (in other emails systems) is a feature to just hide all new emails. I have spoken to you about this, and so you should know my work arounds dont work very well! A schedule receive would be OK, or in do not disturb mode dont show me new emails. We work IN missive often, as its where all our tasks are. So even without notifications we get distracted, because when I go access an old email, I see loads new emails in my inbox and I start to go through them and never get the original task done. Its human nature, and we really need an app which just does not show it. Like manual receive button in Outlook or something. I just dont want to see all new emails as soon as they come, I would prefer to be productive. If the postman knocked my door with a new letter every 5 minutes I'd tell him to STOP and please just bring me my mail once or twice a day!!!!!!! :)
Philippe Lehoux
Laurence Cope: Are you aware of the Snooze rule action ? You can combine it with a time condition to create this workflow.
Laurence Cope
Philippe Lehoux: if it can be used to snooze all incoming email until say 12pm and then 4pm etc. before I see it in the inbox, then that may work.
Philippe Lehoux
Laurence Cope: Yes, it can do that no problem.
Laurence Cope
Philippe Lehoux: Snooze doesnt quite work, as I can only choose to Snooze it until the next day or more. I cant snooze it until 12pm the same day (if the mail comes in betwen 9am and 12pm) or 4pm the same day (if the mail comes in between 12pm and 4pm), or 9am the next day (if mail comes in between 4pm and 9am). Basically I only want mail to come into my inbox at set times so the rest of the time I am not distracted. Thanks!
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