One Less Notification

You see that little green dot in the top right hand corner of Medium? That’s a notification. I just made it never bother me again while writing.

One of the things that I like about Medium is going immediately to medium.com/new-story and just writing. No reading, just writing. That green dot, though, interrupts my flow. I suddenly have to see what someone might have said… it’s probably a great engagement tool for them.

So, I made it disappear with a local Tampermonkey script. Now when I write, all I want to do is write. One less distraction.

Our lives are filled with little notifications. It’s our job to cull them down and put the important ones in places where we can still find the message, but it won’t distract from the present task at hand.