Solution to notification concerns?

cjvitek · #1 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 02:59 PM

I was thinking about Rene's concerns regarding the notifications in the iPhone. He has talked about being overwhelmed with notifications, and also the fact that you lose past notifications when you get a new one.

It seems to me that having a notifications app would solve this. An app to keep a log of the notifications that you have received (which you can sort, search, or delete). Even if you hit "close" on a notification, you will still have it in the log. It could also control notifications - allowing for no notification, no notification but kept in the log, audio, popup, or badge notification as well (yes, you can do this in the control pane, but if you have an app for the logs, it could all be in one place!)

What do you think? Would this eliminate the concerns?

Chris

Alli · #2 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 03:50 PM

Something like a notification manager?

Jickjack · #3 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 04:36 PM

I think a notifications log app would be amazing! Thats a really great idea!

Brickman · #4 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 04:47 PM

Look..Just "copy" what the Pre does!

They stole enough from the iPhone.

Turn-about would be fair play I think!

llofte · #5 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 04:57 PM

I like this idea.

Rene Ritchie · #6 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 05:45 PM

Apple, make it happen

Jellotime91 · #7 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brickman

Look..Just "copy" what the Pre does!

They stole enough from the iPhone.

Turn-about would be fair play I think!

Yeah but I don't think they'd shrink the screen size with nofications, they'd probably want to do overlays. What if you're in a game? The screen shrinking could adversely effect your gameplay.. IMO there isn't a great way of porting this to the iPhone. I think if you're gaming or doing something important it HAS TO interrupt you otherwise it gives you that big WTF and you end up pausing the damn thing anyway..

Alli · #8 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 06:30 PM

I'd be happy with a ding to notify me, without any kind of screen interruption. I'll be happy to go look for it when I finish what I'm doing. Some kind of log would be handy though.

cjvitek · #9 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 11:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alli

Something like a notification manager?

Yeah, well if you want to get all technical, you could call it that.

Chris

Alli · #10 (**permalink**) 07-04-2009, 01:20 AM

Nah, we don't need technical. Let's just call it a notifyer thingiemahootchie.

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