Notifications
Reviews are useful because they come to you. That also makes them noisy if you don't set boundaries. Atomus gives you a few ways to stay in control.
Reviews are useful because they come to you. That also makes them noisy if you don't set boundaries. Atomus gives you a few ways to stay in control.
Quiet hours
Set a window when reviews don't surface. The atoms don't disappear, they just wait. Common choices are overnight (11pm to 7am) or during deep work (like 9am to noon on weekdays).
Configure in Settings → Notifications → Quiet hours.
Focus mode awareness
Atomus respects macOS Focus modes by default. If you turn on Do Not Disturb or a work focus, reviews pause until you come back.
You can opt any specific focus mode into reviews in Settings → Notifications → Focus modes. Useful if your "Work" focus is exactly when you want to keep reviewing, not the opposite.
Max per hour
The default is 3 reviews per hour. This prevents a backlog from dumping on you all at once, and keeps reviews feeling ambient rather than urgent.
Bump it up if you're sitting down for a dedicated study session, or drop it to 1 if you'd rather reviews stay background noise. Change it in Settings → Notifications → Review rate.
Full screen and video
Reviews don't appear when your Mac is in a full screen game, or when an app marked as "prevents idle sleep" is active (video players, Zoom calls, OBS). Atomus waits until you're back to normal use.
You can override this per app if you'd rather keep reviewing during, say, a long training video.