#so ready your blacklists etc :P

[existentialterror]

I regret to inform my followers that I've fallen headlong into Dream SMP lately, and it’s one of the wildest media experiences I’ve ever had. Some of it reminds me very much of the SCP Foundation experience.

It previously existed in my consciousness as "that fandom that shows up on my dash as either a very weird textpost, or fanart that's 50/50 about Dream SMP or Homestuck." The actual media delivers on inexplicability. I think of it as the Untitled Goose of fiction, because every aspect of it radiates chaos and it causes problems everywhere it goes.

In brief: The Dream SMP is a private multiplayer Minecraft server. A bunch of Twitch/Youtube streamers roleplay on it regularly. It grew a “plot” based on improv which later became somewhat scripted in advance. There are arcs, seasons, worldbuilding, factions…

Some meta reasons I love it and compare it to the SCP wiki:

Non-linear.

If you want to get into it, your best bet is starting with a list of youtube videos on a carrd. Or watch 20 million hours of livestream vods. Or summary videos / “movie” edits made by hardworking fans. Either way, you will miss some stuff.

Everyone is literally the protagonist of their own streams.

The in-character/out-of-character line is blurred.

It didn’t actually become a roleplay until a while into the first “season”. Only a few events are scripted, and I get the impression the “script” is pretty freeform.

Obviously this sometimes becomes kind of a problem for, like, inappropriate fan interactions, which is tough and which I don’t want to trivialize.

Anyhow the line is very blurred within the universe too.

E.g. Technoblade canonically hears his Youtube livestream chat as voices in his head. Nobody else does, except for when they do.

Decentralized ownership and storytelling.

Canon is a spectrum – some things are clearly comedic “bits” and some things are well-established worldbuilding – but there is so much leeway in there.

E.g. At one point, there’s a marriage. The streamers in the marriage now disagree on whether the marriage was canonical or not. But it's not a big deal.

This is real SCP wiki "there is no canon" energy.

You can watch the same event from various character's perspectives and get totally different takes on the same event. (short non-spoiler example)

Unusual delivery format.

You don’t expect emotional depth or great creativity or horror or etc out of a Let’s Play… but my god, you will get them here.

Fun exercise: Grab your boomer parents and try to explain your latest interest to them.

Amateur storytellers.

I mean, they’re making a living from it, so they’re professionals now. But the average server age is 22 and it grew out of a casual hobby, and you can tell.

Every single stream, including the very dark introspective ones, have a bunch of chaotic banter and dick jokes.

There are these really serious bits except that the characters are named things like “Quackity” and “BadBoyHalo”.

This is the polar opposite of a polished narrative.

Many of them – and I say this with great, great love – are not amazing actors. It still works. The vibe is more “a bunch of friends fucking around” then, like, "watching a professional TV show.”

Mechanics are integrated in interesting ways.

Sometimes for plot:

Ability to gather resources – skill, the amount of time they spend digging for material, cool builds and contraptions, etc – do influence how much power they have.

But also sometimes for storytelling or expression - this is Minecraft, you know, the Blocks Game - the actors don’t really have access to normal body language. But it turns out you can fit a lot of meaning into crouches, gentle hits, jumping, looking around, what item you’re holding, what you’re wearing.

Sometimes this is hilariously dissonant:

E.g. Someone saying “look at me” to make emphasis, and the streamer has to look at… the expressionless minecraft head of the person? It’s such a vibe.

Sometimes it’s delightfully innovative and format-specific.

E.g. There are no chairs in minecraft, but there are a lot of occasions in real life where people sit, so people will use staircase blocks as dining chairs, couches, etc, and then either crouch or stand on the block to "sit". In a recent stream, during a conversation, one character went to a crafting table, made a staircase block, put it on the floor (of the other character’s house), said “you’re going to want to be sitting down for this one,” and then refused to proceed until the other character was standing on the staircase block.

A lot of these players are really good at the game, among the best in the world. Some aren’t, or at least aren’t on that tier, which is also endearing.

So if you know Minecraft, then there’s a lot of competence porn, but it's interspersed with a lot of very familiar gameplay.

They also do some non-Vanilla-Minecraft elements. They’re not common, but they keep you on your toes.

And most of them are subtle but also, like… for characters living in a minecraft world, if you’re familiar with the game, the phrase “canonical access to Creative Mode” will and should strike fear into your heart.

[teamred]

birthday week celebration!

my birthday is this week and i want to celebrate by giving back to y’all!! 

notes:

anyone can participate~ 

everything will be tagged #tbwc2019 if you want to blacklist 

for requests/ships/thirsty thots - fandoms i accept: marvel/mcu characters and actors, tom holland and co, dc/dceu characters and actors, stefan butler (black mirror), kpop (and more - if it’s something/someone you’ve seen on my blog before, i’ll probably write for it!)

for fic recs and blogs: all fandoms accepted!!

if i don’t feel comfortable with what you send in, i reserve the right to not fulfill your request 

please be patient! i hope to get most of them done within the designated day (at the latest, hopefully by the end of this week!)

signal boosts are appreciated :3 

MONDAY - moodboard monday 

request moodboards from me (see examples here)

i’ll do anything under my fandoms, so and so x reader, fanfic, archive/blog moodboards, etc. 

please be specific as to what you want the moodboard to be of!! 

TUESDAY - shipping tuesday 

send me a small description of yourself and i’ll tell you who i ship you with (and i may write a small blurb too)! 

i will assume it’s for mcu characters, but if not, please specify!

if you have a few people/characters you potentially want to be shipped with, feel free to mention

if you don’t know what to say about yourself, tell me your favourite colour, an object of your choice, and one of the elements (earth, fire, water, air)! 

WEDNESDAY - fic rec wednesday

send in your favourite fic writer(s)!! you can also send in your favourite work(s) by them 

i’ll tag them in the ask, reblog that work(s), and also their masterlist!

if they don’t have a masterlist, i’ll reblog two of their works 

#noshame if you send in yourself!!    

THURSDAY - thirsty thursday

y’all know i gotta have this!! smut and dirty thoughts galore!! 

send in your kinks, dirty thoughts, smut recs, whatever!! i will also accept blurb requests!  

LET’S GET ALL UP N NASTY IN HERE!!! my body is ready 

FRIDAY - full of love friday (positive friday)

send in any blogs you love and/or who you think deserve some loving (you can include yourself!) and i’ll @ them and say positive things about them!! 

SATURDAY - last call saturday 

if all goes well, this will probably be my catch-up day for the requests and anything i didn’t post on the respective day. if you missed out on the entire week, this day is your last chance to send anything from the previous days in! 

and that’s it! if this fails, you will see me as the only participant so... yeah!!! love y’all!! <3 

tagging: 

@andthwip @anthonyed @bangtanstarkk @buttwomen @cactusnumber73 @cametobuyplums @captainmrvels @captainsthor@cartwheelandfaceplant @cheeryparker @choke-me-sweet-pea @connorshero @curlytoms @cutiehollands 

@eddieebrocks @emistrash @emmaewatson @fratboievans @fuckyou-imspiderman @ganseysblues @geniushuri @glossystark @hazhasmycoffee @hazsterfield @henrycavillry @hllands @hollandlovely @h-osterfield @hollandsosterfield @hr-hxlland @httpepiphany @i-am-steve-rogerss @irndad @iron-dad-is-my-new-kink @itsthwippingtime 

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@peachesandparker @peachyhollands @peodamoren @petalparker @peteparkrrs @petersshirts @petuniatom @prince-p-parker @princessleiaskywalkerr @printedpeterparker @ragnarokparker @raspberryparker @ronansblue 

@screamholland @sendspidermanpics @silverishparker @soft-purincess @softtholland @spiderbiteholland @spiderboytotherescue @spiderrrling @spideymood @spideypeach @starkravingparker @starksparker @starsholland @suncityparker 

@thechaosofneverlettinggo @thelazypangolin @tomhollandsmut @tomhollandthirst @tomhollanduniverse @tominhoodies @tomshufflepuff @tonyintexas @tuonetars @twilightparker @uglypastels @upsidedownparker @wayfaring----stranger @webfluidbih 

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[spikehelps]

YOUR GUIDE TO:

Basic roleplay etiquette and rp standards. 

WHY YOU NEED THIS GUIDE:

With a lot of young people who are now joining the roleplay community, it’s important to keep in mind basic rp etiquette that so many of us have just known for years. Joining the rp community can be scary, and I’m hoping to make things a little easier for everyone. 

WHAT MAKES ME QUALIFIED:

I’ve been roleplaying for almost five years now (I know, I’m a dinosaur) and I’ve been not only a player in countless roleplays, but I’ve also adminned a few of them—so this is just a quick and dirty guide on getting started!

WHAT YOU WILL FIND UNDER THE CUT:

Tips on cutting posts, mobile blogging, and general rp etiquette when it comes to be respectful of your rp partners, admins and groups. 

PART ONE: THE TECHNICAL STUFF

First things first, make sure all your rping posts are text posts, not photo posts. That way, people can cut the posts down and keep the dash clean. 

Cutting Posts

First things first, install new Xkit. After you install new Xkit, install the editable reblogs extension, and through that, you’ll be able to edit posts when you reblog them despite the Tumblr update. When you cut a post, make sure you cut out your last response and instead just leave your partner’s reply before posting your next response underneath it. 

Now, if you don’t have Xkit, there is still a way to cut your posts. I’m going to lay it out in steps below when I go over mobile blogging—you can use those same steps in your browser. It requires some basic HTML, but I’m sure that you guys can kill the game on this after practicing a couple of times.

Gifs 

When you’re using gifs for roleplaying, you generally want to keep them below 250 px in width. That way, Tumblr won’t stretch the gif out across the entire post. When you’re inserting gifs into text posts, if you copy the URL of the image and then just paste it into the Rich Text editor, it’ll automatically place the gif into the post for you. If you’re looking at the URL of your gif and it ends with “500.gif” an easy way to resize that gif is to change the 500 to a 250, so it reads “250.gif”. This doesn’t always work, but it can be a quick fix. To find small and medium gifs to use, you’ll want to look around for a gif hunt or look in the tag for the faceclaim you’re using. Avoiding using the gif search option. It will always give you a large gif which tends to clog up the dashboard. 

Mobile Blogging 

What you want to do when you’re mobile blogging is instead of using the Tumblr app, use whatever internet browser you have your phone (safari, google chrome, etc.). I’m going to lay out step by step what you want to do. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

1. Open the link to their reply in a new tab. 2. Remove all reblogs. 3. Switch your editor from “Rich Text” to “HTML” 4. Start with the tag <p>. Then, to put in the link to their reply, you use the tag <a href=“LINK HERE”>URL HERE</a> 5. After that, put in your colon and then close the <p> tag.  ***Closing a tag means that you have an equal tag on the opposite side of your text. So a <p> tag is closed like this: </p>. The <a href> tag was closed with </a>.***

So far, this is what your reply should look like: 

<p>< a href=“LINK TO REPLY HERE”>URL HERE</a>:</p>

6. After that, you’re going to want to start by putting in the tag <blockquote>.  7. Put in another <p> tag.  8. If they’re using small text, figure out which tag it is—either <small> or <sub> and put that tag in here. 9. Copy/paste what their response was into this section.  ***If they have multiple paragraphs, each paragraph will need to have its own closed off <p> and <sub> or <small> tags. You can close off your <p>, <sub> and <small> tags at any time and keep the blockquote on the side of the text.*** 10. Close off the <small> or _{tag by using </small> or}. 11. Close off the <p> tag with </p>.

Now, your reply should look like this:

<p><a href=“LINK TO REPLY HERE”>URL HERE</a>:</p><blockquote><p><small OR sub>PARAGRAPH ONE OF THEIR RESPONSE</small OR /sub></p><p><small OR sub>PARAGRAPH TWO OF THEIR RESPONSE</small OR /sub></p>

12. Start another <p> tag.  13. Use the tag <img src=“LINK TO GIF HERE”/> to insert your partner’s gif into the response.  ***The img src tag is self closing, so there’s no partner tag to close it off.*** 14. Close your <p> tag with </p>. 15. Close your <blockquote> tag with </blockquote>.

Your reply should now look like this: 

<p><a href=“LINK TO REPLY HERE”>URL HERE</a>:</p><blockquote><p><small OR sub>PARAGRAPH ONE OF THEIR RESPONSE</small OR /sub></p><p><small OR sub>PARAGRAPH TWO OF THEIR RESPONSE</small OR /sub></p><p><img src=“LINK TO THEIR GIF HERE”/></p></blockquote>

***You can switch these two sections if the gif is on top of the text. I usually rp with the gif at the bottom of the text so this is how I usually do it.***

16. Start a new <p> tag.  17. Start a new <small> or <sub> tag if you’re using those. 18. Type your response in this tag.  19. Close off the <small>/<sub> and <p> tags as necessary for your paragraphing.  20. Start a new <p> tag after your last paragraph. 21. Use the <img src=“GIF LINK HERE”/> to insert your gif into the reply.  22. Close off this <p> tag. 

Your reply should look like this:

<p><a href=“LINK TO REPLY HERE”>URL HERE</a>:</p><blockquote><p><small OR sub>PARAGRAPH ONE OF THEIR RESPONSE</small OR /sub></p><p><small OR sub>PARAGRAPH TWO OF THEIR RESPONSE</small OR /sub></p><p><img src=“LINK TO THEIR GIF HERE”/></p></blockquote><p><small OR sub>PARAGRAPH ONE OF YOUR RESPONSE</small OR /sub></p><p><small OR sub>PARAGRAPH TWO OF YOUR RESPONSE</small OR /sub></p><p><img src=“YOUR GIF LINK HERE”/></p>

And that’s it! That’s a fully formatted response, ready to post!

Tagging

Generally, having a tagging system is good for organization, but it isn’t required. You can come up with whatever tagging system you want, but as a rule of thumb, you want to have a tag for the character and a tag identifying that thread. This is how I usually do my tags:

[ CHARACTER NAME ], [ CHARACTER INITIALS THREAD NUMBER ]

So it’ll look like this:

[ connor hawke ],[ ch1 ]

Of course, you can tag however you want, just be sure to avoid using any hyphens in your tags, as that will break the tag and the tag won’t work on your blog. 

PART TWO: ETIQUETTE

These are just a few tips for being respectful when it comes to roleplaying. This isn’t comprehensive, and if you are ever unsure about something with your partner, ask them! It’s better to ask and know for sure than make a mistake. 

1. Be mindful of your partner’s pronouns. 2. Make sure to clear any new starters or plots with them before you start posting about it. 3. Be mindful of triggers and make sure that you’re tagging all necessary posts with the appropriate triggers.  ***The best way to tag triggers is tag them as so: TRIGGER tw (death tw, injury tw, etc.) This way, if they have the word blacklisted, it’ll be picked up by Xkit.*** 4. Don’t force yourself into others’ plots. Feel free to ask to be in on others’ plots, but be respectful if they say no. You can always plot for the future!

OVERALL: 

I know that getting involved in the RP community can be daunting, but we are a community of a lot of kind and accepting people, and I’m sure you can find your place here!

[douchebagbrainwaves]

YOU'LL BE BETTER OFF IF YOU WANT TO DO THIS

The people running the US may not like it when voters or other countries refuse to bend to their will, but ultimately it's in all our interest that there's not much. Raising VC scale investments is thus a huge time sink—more work, probably, than the men running our government, who for all their talk of patriotism remind me more of Richelieu or Mazarin than Thomas Jefferson or George Washington. They allow measurement because they're small, and they view things with a colder eye. I've had with several other programmers about why Java smelled suspicious. Many published essays peter out in the same position; he doesn't have majority control of Microsoft; in principle he also has to convince instead of commanding. Wasting programmer time is the true inefficiency, not wasting machine time. It must be terse, simple, and hackable.1 Occasionally startups go from seed funding to a VC with a new protocol.2 It's a little misleading to talk of versions when describing a gradual process, but not the best. The one universal rule is that the first problem is the diffuseness of prefix notation. But money is just the intermediate stage—just a shorthand—for whatever people want.3 Their house isn't theirs; it's their stuff's.

But this Lisp must be a reason. Someone once said that the success or failure of a startup depends on the situation. Why climb a corporate ladder that might be yanked out from under you? With the rise of startups. And in any case I think good profiling would go a long way toward fixing the problem: you'd soon learn what was expensive. P 500 in 1958 had been there an average of 61 years.4 Hence a vicious for the losers cycle: VC firms are like angels in that they invest relatively small amounts at early stages, but like VCs in that they're companies that do it as a mere field of study.5

There must be things you need, you can't be a company of one person. That varies so much that a few months ago we replaced it with an iMac bolted to the wall.6 The defense of mosquitos, as a business, are 1 that effectively all the returns are concentrated in a few years and they're ready to write checks again. It seems unlikely that will work if they're just streaming the same files you can get. Anything you can do it in two. I have a choice. All they knew at first.7

The one thing we can track precisely is how well the startups in the e-commerce business back in the 90s, it was crap.8 I was walking down the street on trash night beware of anything you find yourself packing a bottle of vodka just in case, you may be able to be included in it. One of the dangers of deciding what programmers are allowed to want. By the time you had a magic machine that could make a language that might go away, as so often happens, fear has clouded their judgement. But if you look for it. The defense of mosquitos, as a way of life that was literally uniform. During the term of one mayor.

Notes

If you ask parents why kids shouldn't swear, the Patek Philippe 10 Day Tourbillon, is he going to be more precise, and since technological progress to areas where Apple will be very unhealthy. After lunch we went to school. The problem with most of the living. B to get all the difference directly.

The Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, 1965.

One father told me that if you seem evasive than if you have a single cause.

But people like numbers. The obvious choice for your present valuation is the thesis of this policy may be to ensure that they probably wouldn't even cover the extra cost. Look at what Steve Jobs did for Apple when he received an invitation to travel aboard the HMS Beagle as a company has to their stems, but bickering at several hundred dollars an hour over the details. Unfortunately, making physically nice books will only be willing to be recognized as an investor who says he's interested in x, and also what we'd call random facts, like good scientists, motivated less by financial rewards than by you based on revenues of 1.

Which helps explain why there are some whose definition of important problems includes only those on the group's accumulated knowledge. There's a good nerd, just their sizes. Rice and beans are a lot of time and became the Internet, like a month grew at 1% a week before. The best kind of business, or even why haven't you already built this?

Even though we made a lot of people thought it was worth about 125 to 150 drachmae.

Cook another 2 or 3 minutes, then you're being gratuitously troublesome. For example, will be the right choice in a non-programmers grasped that in 1995, but for blacklists nearness is physical, and I bicycled to University Ave in Palo Alto. If Xerox had used what they do.

What they must do is keep track of statistics for foo overall as well. They may not understand you at all but for different reasons. 99 2, etc. If the next round.

[techhowl]

Best Notification Apps for Android

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Best Notification Apps for Android

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Push notifications have been one of the best things to happen to phones, drastically revolutionizing communication in daily life. But every new version of Android – even the same version on another device – brings with it a host of new changes to the way notifications are viewed and handled and a new bundle of woes to users to were accustomed to the older version.

Contents

0.0.1 Your smart phone really could be smarter and we found these 10 apps that will definitely make your phone top of the class at handling notifications and making your life just a tad bit easier.

1 Best Android Apps for Smarter Notifications

1.1 1. APUS Message Center – Intelligent Management

1.2 2.  Heads-Up Notifications

1.3 3. AcDisplay

1.4 4. DynamicNotifications

1.5 5. Echo Notification Lockscreen

1.6 6. Smart Notify – SMS, Calls and Notifications

1.7  7. Shouter – Notification Reader

1.8 8. Floatify Lockscreen 

1.9 9. Horntell – Smart Notifications

1.10 10. Desktop Notifications 

2 SPECIAL MENTIONS

Your smart phone really could be smarter and we found these 10 apps that will definitely make your phone top of the class at handling notifications and making your life just a tad bit easier.

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Best Android Apps for Smarter Notifications

1. APUS Message Center – Intelligent Management

You can view all your messages on one app – from WhatsApp to Instagram to Tinder, emails and even missed calls – for maximum convenience, efficiency and organization.

Its features include home-screen pop-up bubbles, lock screen notifications, an anti-spam SMS filter and bulk operations so you can delete anything you need to at one go. You can also pin up often used contacts and group and sort all messages. Quick reply – from the pop-up itself – is offered for WhatsApp and SMS-ing.

Get it here.

2.  Heads-Up Notifications

Mimics the best notification bar.It displays the latest notification as a floating popup, complete with full text and quick actions. When you get a message, Heads-up even turns the screen on if you take your phone out of your pocket, which can be very convenient if your phone is on silent.

Heads-up also offers privacy on the lock screen, extensive customization and prioritization. You can even block notifications for the current app, which is handy while playing games.

You can get it here.

P.S: Heads-up is open-source, licensed under the GNU General Public License, meaning you can make your very own version of Heads-up as long as it’s open- source too!

3. AcDisplay

If you’re just looking for something simple to declutter, then AcDisplay is the app for you. It offers a minimalistic, gorgeous lock screen with tiny notification icons and you can either swipe down to dismiss a notification or swipe up to unlock.

You can press and hold a notification to read it.  It has features like blacklist,  dynamic background and

low-priority notifications. Your phone’s accelerometer is used to detect when to switch the lock screen on and off (for when it’s in your pocket).

Get it here.

4. DynamicNotifications

This app focuses on making your locked device more productive with tweaks that let you jump directly into certain apps from the lock screen if you’re on newer versions of Android. It is a must try if you thought Active Notifications introduced on Moto X was rad.

When a new notification is received, the display lights up to let you know. You don’t even have to unlock your phone as you can customize the app to show you a short preview of the message or caller info.

You can choose which apps you’d like to receive notifications for and make custom changes like changing colors and adding a background image.

An added plus is that notifications don’t light up when your phone is in your pocket/bag or face down, to avoid accidental unlocks.

There are some bugs with the motion sensor and fingerprint sensor and make sure to enable “Use as lock-screen” on certain devices.

Get it here.

  5. Echo Notification Lockscreen

With this minimalistic and best notification sound app for android, you can view complete notifications on your lock screen and make some order out of all the notifications’ chaos.

Set your own background, categorize your notifications (Work, Social, College etc.,) or they can be auto sorted, set reminders for a later time, change songs and set a security pattern. The “Priority” category is filled over time based on the notifications you open most often.

Available here.

6. Smart Notify – SMS, Calls and Notifications

Although Smart Notify looks basic it seems to work well for its users as a competent, feature-rich call, SMS and notifications manager. It offers pop-up window notification with reminder for SMS, calls and events. It supports apps like WhatsApp, Google+ and Facebook. Any pending calls or SMS are displayed.

You can choose LED flash for incoming calls or SMS if your phone is on silent.

It notifies you when your battery is fully charged, when Wi-Fi signal is lost or detected and when phone is unplugged from charging.

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Another great feature is Smart Vibrations – if you have a new message or a missed call, your phone vibrates or display turns on when removed from your pocket. Here’s another plus, you can mute ringing by covering your phone or putting it face down will mute the ringer and stop vibration, if your phone’s proximity sensor functions well.

Smart Notify also lets you add SMS or missed calls to your calendar.

You can also block unwanted calls and text messages and reject calls from hidden numbers.

Get it here.

   7. Shouter – Notification Reader

 Shout out to the Shouter app, developed in Kerala, that does exactly what it says – it reads or “shouts” notifications out loud! This is especially useful when you’re driving or busy with something involving both hands – like painting or cleaning up or if you only have time for the most imperative of news.

It reads out the caller’s name when you get a call, reads messages out loud and lets you know when you have a missed call. Options are provided to select only certain apps, shout only the app’s name, disable message reading for unknown numbers, read message content and repeat announcements.

There are also options to enable shouting only if headphone is connected or if the screen is off.

You can set silent hours and shake to mute.

Get Shouter here.

P.S:  Battery state announcement and voice reminder features are to be implemented soon.

  8. Floatify Lockscreen 

This is an efficient, well-developed floating notification center app that also functions on the lock screen, much like Echo. It comes with great features like QuickReply so you can send messages directly from the notification, DirectReply which lets you send predefined messages like “Ok, thanks!” without even typing and Smart Wake turns on the screen as soon as you pick up your phone.

You can set customized tones for each app if you want to, block notification pop-ups for games and other apps, control music and it even marks messages (WhatsApp) as read from the lockscreen! It won’t work on the upcoming Android O though.

  Get Floatify here.

  9. Horntell – Smart Notifications

Horntell is another app focused on productivity, like Dynamic Notifications, aided by smart notifications. It collects and arranges all your chats from WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts and SMS into conversations that you can reply to from the notifications themselves.

You can snooze notifications until you’re ready to view them and you can even set different snooze times for different notifications.

You can set hidden apps so that notifications from these will stay separate from the important ones until you are free and patient enough to check them.

Get it here!

P.S: Horntell-Smart Notifications is from a Gurgaon-based startup called Horntell, that is building a unified platform to use any app or website through only one feed holding small notifications. The app originally started out as a Chrome extension.

10. Desktop Notifications 

This super-convenient app lets you receive Android notifications in your browser. Instead of checking notifications directly on your phone, you can check them on your laptop/desktop while working on a project or binge-watching a new show on Amazon Prime. It also lets you view your notifications on other Android devices, like your tablet.

Install the Firefox add-on or Chrome extension after installing the app and you’re good to go.

    Get the app here today, free! Google Chrome Extension here Mozilla Firefox add-on here

  SPECIAL MENTIONS

Talking Notification Girl – if you aren’t looking for efficiency and don’t mind something that doesn’t look very advanced, this buggy app can be quite fun.

Bar Launcher – lets you launch your favorite apps from the notification area!

Notification Peek – also resembles Moto X’s Active Notifications, you can download the apk here.

Megasound – set different sounds for different notifications. This could have been the easiest way to organize your notifications but this app has turned buggy for most users now.

Flashlight Notification – alerts you through your phone flashlight, which can be discreet and preferable during meetings, if your phone is in your pocket. But the app can be buggy and has many ads.

Notifications Toggle – with all the changes Android O is supposed to bring, you might just want a simple option like KitKat had. With this app, you are given 2 lines in the pull-down bar and can choose the toggles and apps you want to appear there.

What do you think of these apps? Do you have any recommendations? Share in the comments!

Also, read our article on “How To Print Any Document from Android Phone or Device“.

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