Minutes on the Matter of Notification Cleanup
Badge count: 847. Priority: unclear. Status: deferred to a cleaner future.
Minutes on the Matter of Notification Cleanup
Meeting: Internal — Single Attendee Agenda Item: The Notification Situation Status of Minutes: Drafted. Not reviewed. Not acted upon.
Opening Notes
The meeting was convened informally when the attendee noticed the badge count had crossed eight hundred. The attendee opened a notes file to think through the problem. The notes file has its own unread notification. This irony was noted and set aside.
Current State
Applications with outstanding notifications: eleven.
Applications where individual notifications are likely to contain something actionable: three, estimated.
Applications where the notifications are almost certainly promotional, informational, or time-expired: eight, estimated.
Applications where the attendee is unsure and would need to review each item to determine which category it falls into: eleven.
The problem: review is required to clear, review requires judgment, judgment at scale is more expensive than the original task of clearing each notification at time of receipt would have been.
This situation was created by deferral. Deferral is now the sunk cost.
Discussion
The attendee proposed: clear everything, accept the information loss, start fresh.
The attendee objected: some of those notifications may be important.
The attendee proposed: review them systematically, thirty per session.
The attendee objected: thirty per session across eleven applications is a project.
The attendee noted: this is the third time this year the meeting has reached this point without a resolution.
The attendee agreed.
Action Items
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Defer notification cleanup to a cleaner future slot. [Owner: The Attendee. Due: Unspecified.]
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Review the cleaner future slot when it arrives. [Owner: The Attendee. Due: When the future arrives.]
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Note that the future slot will also have notifications by the time it arrives. [Owner: The Meeting. Due: Already true.]
Closing
Starting would be simpler. Delay still feels easier.
The meeting is adjourned. The badge count is 847. The number will be different tomorrow. Higher or lower cannot be determined without reviewing the notifications, which is the subject of a future meeting.