I set mine to an innocuous background sound that only I will recognize like something small clattering on the floor or a small creaking noise. Its like a gun silencer, instead of making it silent you just make it sound like something else.
I have also found it important to either control which apps can send me notifications or control which apps are on my phone in the first place.
Mine currently sounds a little too much like the birds we have around here, which causes me to either panic because my phone must be going off a lot (and therefore something bad has happened) or I completely ignore it, admiring said birds (and potentially miss an important notification)
I set mine to an innocuous background sound that only I will recognize like something small clattering on the floor or a small creaking noise. Its like a gun silencer, instead of making it silent you just make it sound like something else.
I have also found it important to either control which apps can send me notifications or control which apps are on my phone in the first place.
I should probably do that.
Mine currently sounds a little too much like the birds we have around here, which causes me to either panic because my phone must be going off a lot (and therefore something bad has happened) or I completely ignore it, admiring said birds (and potentially miss an important notification)