Recipe: Notification Hygiene

Tame notification overload by identifying noisy senders, reclassifying misplaced mail, grouping repetitive notifications, and clearing out what's no longer relevant.

Prerequisite: Read the use-spark base skill for command reference and filter syntax.

Access level required: triage.

Steps

Step 1: Assess notification volume

spark emails Inbox --filter "category:notification is:unread"

Count the unread notifications. If the number is high, scan the sender list for patterns - which senders dominate?

Step 2: Identify noisy senders