for a long time i have struggled with chat applications. as a remote developer, chat is the only means of communication other than some scheduled calls. and so i had to keep these chat applications running in the background. if i turned on notifications on these applications then they would just show every message sent, so that wasn't an option.
often i closed these applications when i wanted some focus time but then there was a part of my brain wondering about "what if someone pings me about something".
finally i found a nice solution to the problem. i just pin tabs on the browser and that puts them out of the way. and if someone pings me, the pinned tabs show a dot telling me it's time to check the chat.
