Snooze everything else (keep a few things, hide the rest for a while)

What it is

Snooze everything else is snooze turned around. A normal snooze asks you to pick what to HIDE. This asks you to pick what to KEEP — then it hides everything else until a time you choose, and brings it all back on its own.

It exists because the normal way round gets harder exactly when you need it most. If your inbox has 23 things in it and you want to concentrate on 3, the ordinary bulk snooze makes you select the other 20. The noisier the inbox, the more work it is to quiet it.

What it does and doesn't touch

• It sweeps everything else — including task reminders and pending approvals. That is deliberate, and it's why it asks you to confirm once and tells you the real number first. Worth knowing: snoozing a task reminder defers the actual task, and hiding a pending approval means an agent waiting on that decision keeps waiting.
• What you kept stays put. Including the fiddly case where several rows share one underlying item — pull requests from the same repository, for instance. Keep one and the others don't drag it away with them.
• Things already snoozed are left alone. If you'd snoozed something until next week, a two-hour sweep won't pull it back early.
• It's one gesture, one undo. Everything the sweep hid comes back with a single Undo.

Where to find it

In the Inbox panel itself: select the rows you want to keep, then choose the keep-and-hide action. The hubs sidebar looks alike but is not the place.

How it behaves

The two ways to use it

Keep the things you picked. In the Inbox panel, select the rows you want to keep — hold Ctrl (or Cmd) and click each one, or Shift-click a run of them — then right-click any row and choose "Snooze everything else…". Pick how long, and the rest of the inbox goes quiet.

Do this in the Inbox panel itself, not the hubs sidebar. The two look alike and carry the same right-click menu, so it is an easy first wrong turn.

Keep a whole project. Every project's group header in the inbox has a "Snooze others (N)" button, where N is how many items sit outside that project. One click keeps that project and snoozes the rest. You don't have to select anything — which is usually what a focus block actually looks like: one project, everything else quiet, for a couple of hours.

That button only appears on a real project. The Alerts and Approvals sections aren't projects, so it never shows up there.

When it comes back

At the time you picked, on its own. There's no new mechanism here — it uses the same snooze that every other Omniscio item uses, so everything returns the way it always does.

Focus Mode is a different thing

Focus Mode batches your alerts so they arrive together instead of interrupting one at a time. This feature doesn't touch it.

They do meet in one place: a session can be marked "Alert me even in Focus Mode" from its right-click menu, which lets that one session interrupt you immediately instead of waiting for the next batch. That's a per-session exception to batching — not a way of keeping a row visible — and it's the setting the Focus Mode settings page lets you remove again.

Turning it off

It ships switched off while in development. Settings → Lab, or the setting inboxKeepListFocusEnabled.

Related

Snoozing a single inbox item is the ordinary way round and has its own page; snoozing a session is a separate control on the session itself.