LN 019: Notifications by Alexander Obenauer
Alexander writes about notifications and how they have turned the direction and agency of decisions to interact on its head.
As discussed in LN 018, rather than apps, our OS of the future has services that provide items to our operating system. Podcast episodes, emails, calendar events and more — they all come into our system via services.
But notifications don’t.
Instead, our services simply supply our system with items. And we, the users, tell our system what kinds of new items we want to be notified about. There is no way for a service to tell the system to notify us about something; instead, they only supply the system with their available items.
I like this notion of how many other things work by feeding the information to a system, dashboard, hub or app we can control while notifications arrive unprompted by the user.