Put your phone on silent and leave it in your bag. Look at the notifications each app is broadcasting and turn them into silent notifications. Optionally have an override when somebody important tries to call you through your phone.<p>You might as well ask, does Skype/Hangouts/Slack/Email etc on your work machine interfere with your productivity? Yes if you let it.<p>One of the reasons I like Full Screen mode on OSX. It removes distractions.
I generally turn off non-calendar notifications. For work email I use the Nine app which has a nice VIP option so I only get notified for messages by a few key people. Otherwise I get to my email when I open it by choice. I also enable silent time so all non-alarm notifications are muted from 10pm to 7am.
I just found this article as well <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/27/zombification-from-notifications-how-to-fix-the-problem-of-too-many-alerts/" rel="nofollow">http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/27/zombification-from-notific...</a><p>Is there any app that can fix this?
Nope, not really. I usually check my phone if I get a notification, and once I'm done with my phone I get back to my work. If I'm swamped and I've not received a call I'll leave my phone until I'm at a natural break.<p>Is it really that much of a problem for people?
sure. I won't allow any app send notification with sound / vibration, I will read it when I am free.<p>If you have any urgent issue, please phone me. Asking me by instance messenger do not mean I will response instantly.