Customize Pumble Notifications to Stop Notification Fatigue

Is the constant pinging of your notifications interrupting your deep work or personal time? Do you feel your productivity slipping through your fingers because of the constant “ding, ding, ding” coming from your laptop?

Well, since you probably receive 153 notifications every day, it’s no wonder! According to a 2025 Microsoft research, that’s the average number of notifications workers receive from their team communication apps. 

Instantly checking each one and trying to stay on top of the notification onslaught can lead to serious notification fatigue.

So, what are you supposed to do? Mute everything and pretend you’re not there?

Of course not, that might lead to you missing something really important. The trick to staying both productive and on top of your notifications is to configure your tools correctly. 

Luckily, Pumble makes that easy. 

Here’s how you can customize Pumble notification settings to boost your focus and give yourself enough time for deep work.

Master the basics: Global notification preferences

You can fully customize Pumble notifications to prioritize what matters most and minimize distractions from less relevant topics. 

However, to do that, you have to start from the basics — like setting your general notification preferences.

Pumble lets you pick what you get notified about. For every direct message or message in a channel, you can pick between 3 different notifications options. You can:

1. Get notified about all new messages,
2. Get notified about direct messages and mentions and reactions in channels, or
3. Opt out of notifications completely.

Customize your Pumble experience

When real-time communication is of the utmost importance, you can opt for getting all notifications. That way, you’ll stay in the loop. 

However, when you want to focus on your work, it’s better to go for one of the other two options.

For example, you can choose to get notified only about messages that directly involve you — direct messages and messages that specifically mention you or a user group you belong to. That way, you won’t miss any vital information, while still getting a break from notifications coming from irrelevant channels.  

Alternatively, if you’re in deadline mode and need to fully focus on your project or task, you can just opt out of notifications. That way, you won’t get notified about any new messages on Pumble. 

Instead, you can open Pumble and go over everything you missed whenever it suits you and your schedule — the ideal setup for asynchronous communication.

The power of ‘Do Not Disturb’ (DND) and schedules

Although handy, muting all notifications isn’t always the best option — even when you’re on a tight deadline. 

What happens when the deadline passes and you remain blissfully unaware that your notifications are still set to “receive nothing”? 

Well, you might also remain uninformed.

To avoid that fate, you can choose to pause notifications for a specific period. 

By pausing notifications, you’re essentially turning on your Pumble “Do Not Disturb” mode. While Pumble will still indicate that you’re online with the green dot next to your name, there will be a small “Z” within it that will signal to everyone that you’re busy and would prefer not to be messaged during a specific time. 

What’s more, anyone who enters their direct messaging history with you will get a notification that you paused your notifications, as seen in the image below.

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Pausing notifications is a great way to: 

• Keep yourself focused on a task, or 
• Silence Pumble during important voice or video calls.

You can pause all notifications like this for a predetermined or custom amount of time that can span anywhere between 30 minutes to multiple days. 

Aside from protecting your focus, Pumble can also help you protect your personal time. With Pumble’s notification schedule, you can maintain a healthy work-life balance and leave work behind after you’re done for the day.

Set a schedule that mutes notifications after your work hours. That way, you won’t find yourself at the dinner table with a phone buzzing with messages from your coworkers from different time zones.

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Mute the noise: Channel and thread management

Usually, it’s not all notifications that hinder your ability to focus. It’s the irrelevant ones from channels that don’t really matter that pull you away from your tasks.

Channels that were created for socializing, for example, or those that only serve as a spot where people drop information or announcements tend to break your focus with messages that don’t really provide value in that moment.

Luckily, Pumble lets you mute these channels and save yourself from being constantly interrupted by notifications that can definitely wait. 

Muted channels won’t show a notification when there’s unread activity, which means you can go in and read through them at your convenience. However, if someone happens to mention you or sends a message with @here or @channel, you’ll get a badge notification next to the muted channel.

So, muting channels gives you the best of both worlds — browse at your own pace but also get notified immediately if something requires your personal attention.

If muting channels seems too radical or not conducive to your productivity, you can also just opt out of threads that you are a part of. 

Although threads are an amazing tool for focused, organized conversations, sometimes they can get derailed. People go off topic or start discussing some segment of the topic that you have no interest in. 

In those cases, you can just unfollow a thread and not receive any notifications about further replies in it.

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Desktop vs mobile notifications: Tailor your experience

If you hate receiving notifications on your phone while you’re working on your computer, we have great news for you. Pumble has a handy option that lets you turn off phone notifications as long as you’re active on your computer.

We all know how annoying it is to set up a quick call with your colleague and then hear ringing and buzzing coming from two devices. What’s worse, the phone usually takes a while to receive the signal that the call has been accepted on another device, so you find yourself exchanging pleasantries with your coworker with the buzzing still going on in the background.

You can solve that right now by changing your mobile notification preferences from “Immediately, even if I’m active” to “As soon as I’m inactive”.

That way, you’ll only get mobile notifications when you’re away from your computer.

Stay updated on the go with Pumble

Also, Pumble gives you the option to set specific notification settings for your phone and your computer. 

For example, maybe you don’t want your phone to constantly have Pumble notifications on it. Maybe you only want to see the most vital notifications on your phone — which is quite valid. 

All you have to do is click on the “Use different settings for my mobile devices” in the notification settings and pick the option that works best for you, as seen in the image below.

How to balance focus and availability in a digital workspace

The modern workplace is full of digital distractions. Many apps don’t let you choose anything else but to be distracted and interrupted — they require constant attention and leave little room for deep work. 

But you shouldn’t let them dictate how focused or productive you get to be during your workday. 

One of the best productivity hacks we at Pumble have to offer is that you don’t need to fully disconnect, but instead connect with intention. 

By customizing your Pumble notifications, you get to choose just how you connect with your coworkers — which notifications get to interrupt you and which ones can go on the backburner.

Pumble’s granular controls — like the option to mute specific channels or threads, or set distinct mobile settings — allow you to stay in the loop without being pulled out of your zone. 

Designed for productive teams, Pumble allows you to focus while also staying informed. 

Don’t compromise your productivity just because you think you have to always be “on” to properly communicate. Have your cake and eat it too — with Pumble by CAKE.com.

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