A life without notifications is a much healthier life. Aside from he dopamine kicks, and addiction, screen strain is also a huge thing. Especially when it comes to sleeping and thus stress resilience.
Love that last paragraph. One of the fun things since PC, and even more since the mobile era, is the huge amount of GTD (getting things done) sites and apps. So many apps which aim to help simplify our livrs.
Yet, know what helps most in all that? Not the massive timesink that is keeping up with GTD, learning new flows and the likes. Or having 30 apps, all for a specific single thing.
Most useful of all is to restrict time on mobile device. With or without app to assist in that.