{"id":439458,"date":"2010-03-17T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2213-turn-off-that-dock-unread-count"},"modified":"2010-03-17T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:40:00","slug":"turn-off-that-dock-unread-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/439458","title":{"rendered":"Turn off that dock unread count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/37assets\/svn\/dock_unread_icon.png\" width=\"45\" height=\"74\" alt=\"unread count\" style=\"margin: 0 10px 5px 0;\" align=\"left\" \/>At David&#8217;s talk in Austin, he talked about increasing productivity. One thing he mentioned that kills flow: that little unread email count notification in your dock (shown at left).<\/p>\n<p>The solution: In mail.app&#8217;s preferences, you can turn it off. Switch it to <em>None<\/em> and your dock will stop &#8220;knocking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/37assets\/svn\/dock_unread_count.png\" width=\"438\" height=\"79\" alt=\"unread countf\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s on you to go check email instead of having that count pushed upon you. A subtle shift, but one that can make a powerful difference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=Veu6l1xiGRQ:7hZLhp-rsNA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=Veu6l1xiGRQ:7hZLhp-rsNA:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At David&#8217;s talk in Austin, he talked about increasing productivity. One thing he mentioned that kills flow: that little unread email count notification in your dock (shown at left). The solution: In mail.app&#8217;s preferences, you can turn it off. Switch it to None and your dock will stop &#8220;knocking.&#8221; Now it&#8217;s on you to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}