Spend a few minutes tailoring Windows notifications to suit your requirements, and you can get yourself a much calmer and less disjointed computing experience while still ensuring you don’t miss out on any vital alerts. Do Not Disturb and FocusWindows has both a Do Not Disturb mode, which lets you turn off all but the most important notifications, and a Focus feature that lets you specify particular blocks of time when you want to concentrate on something without any distractions. There’s a bit more to explore here: you can skip breaks, keep track of tasks completed during Focus sessions, and specify a certain Spotify playlist that you want to use while Focus mode is active