Show HN: I built an app to switch Gmail notification modes instantly
A new app called Owl VIP allows users to customize their Gmail notifications based on specific senders. Users can create a VIP list, choose notification sounds, and set schedules for alerts to minimize interruptions. The app connects to Gmail using Google Sign-In and maintains user privacy by not storing email content.
- ▪Owl VIP lets users receive notifications only from selected email addresses or domains.
- ▪The app offers over 80 notification sounds that can be assigned to specific senders.
- ▪Users can schedule different notification preferences for various times and days.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Main |
| Canonical URL | https://www.sundaelectronics.com/owl-vip-email-alerts |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 21:08:10 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T21:20:27.877Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T21:20:27.877Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | BO3-owjFVxRQ |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Take control of Gmail notificationsGet Gmail notifications only for the emails that matter. Choose specific senders, switch notification modes in one tap, and customize sounds and schedules in seconds.Sleep. Focus. Relax.without unwanted email interruptions01Choose who can notify youOnly want notifications from certain people or businesses? Add email addresses or domains to your VIP list, then switch between VIP-only, all emails, or no notifications whenever you need.Build a VIP listSwitch modes fastChoose the people and domains that can reach you.Stay focusedMove between VIP-only, all emails, or no alertsGet important notifications without constant interruptions02Choose your notification soundPick your favorite notification sound, or assign unique sounds to specific email addresses or…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Main.
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