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Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’

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Originally posted by ShiroKuro:
That was interesting, Thanks for posting it!

I changed the settings on my phone a long time ago so that it no longer vibrates or otherwise registers when I get a new email, and I periodically go through and turn off other notifications. I also try to put it somewhere outside of my line of sight while I’m working.

I use my iPad for reading sheet music a lot, and I noticed that during my piano lesson, I sometimes get a banner notification — that’s the kind where a notification shows up along the top of screen regardless of what app you’re using. It is sooo distracting!

I found out that there’s no way (that I could find) to set it up so that zero notifications show in a particular app, so instead I when through and turned off all the banner notifications for everything, one by one.

It shouldn’t be that difficult to shut things out…