Problem
I personally don’t like notification from apps especially on Laptop. Although this feature gives the app developers the ability to notify and get the attention of the users, it is big distraction when I want to focus on work. One might argue that Control center has focus mode “Do Not Disturb” to solve this problem and avoid such distraction. But our daily life is bombarded with so many notifications be it phone or laptop. The main problem with “Do Not Disturb” focus mode is that once am out of focus mode, I need to open notification center and clear all the notifications that was added in the background. To me such notification clearing exercise is unproductive. These features are build for regular users but in a work environment especially in large companies the volume of notification from different apps is an overkill.
Solution & Problem
An convenient solution that I found is to disable notification for app that usually sends too many notifications. Slack is one among them. After disabling the notification for this app I realized I am slow to respond to messages that were sent to me or in a group. I am seeing messages where I am tagged only after I opened the Slack app. The application badge icon was not working. I didn’t see badges anymore. Something was wrong. So I checked Slack App -> Settings -> Notifications to see if I messed up with anything. Everything looked alright. But something wasn’t right.
Fix
After few days I wanted see what was going on. I check Mac OS system notification settings for Slack app and realized that disabling notification also disables the application badge icon. So I had enabled notification for the app but disable things I didn’t want.
