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Figure 2-28. Focus Assist lets you hush your PC’s dings and chirps when you need quiet.
In the top half of this Settings panel, you choose the level of hushedness: “Priority only”

lets you choose which contacts and apps can send notifications; “Alarms only” lets
through only the alarms you set. Below, you can set Focus Assist to kick on automatically,

say, overnight, or when you’re giving a presentation, or when you’re playing a game, or
just when you’re at home (if you’ve told Cortana where you live).

But in addition to permitting certain people to get through, you can

also designate certain apps’ notifications to get through. Maybe
you’re a day trader, and you don’t want to miss a stock app’s alert
that your portfolio is crashing. Or maybe you have some chat app

whose pings you always want to answer. Use “Add an app” to set
these up.

Alarms only. This is the more dramatic Focus Assist setting. It
means that no notifications at all appear or make noise—except for