Turn on your pull notifications
It will make you more productive!

How many push notifications did you receive yesterday? I bet that you received more than 50 of them. Most of them probably came from messaging apps, such as Whatsapp, Facebook or even Instagram.
So what?
App makers use push notifications to increase the time you are spending in their app. Those notifications are designed to bring you back to the messaging app, open that game or to read the latest news, and in that process, the app makers hope that you click an ad, buy some in-app purchases or even a subscription to their service.
So every time you respond to the push notifications by opening the app, you give the app developer what they want: your attention, and later maybe your wallet.
Even worse for you, is that all these notification disrupt your working flow. If you see a push notification, you get disturbed and lose the focus you had.
I notice it myself: even only seeing the messaging notifications popping up on my screen, distracts me from the activity I was doing.
From push to pull
Therefore, I decided to turn off all my push notifications, and instead made pull notifications out of them.
What I mean by that? I went into the settings of my iPhone (settings -> notifications) and turned all of he push notifications off (except calendar and phone). Since several months, I receive only a few percent of the notifications I used to get, and the rest of the notifications, I only see when I deliberate choose to open the app.
Best of all, I still don’t miss out on anything
You might be afraid that you will miss out on many events that would have popped up in your push notifications. However, this is not the case. All of the apps are designed to show you what happened while you were not using the app, so you still see all new/unread messages. The difference is that you will only see them, when you decide that you want to see them; you changed the push notifications to pull notifications.

