What we need is a virtual secretary: someone who will triage all our calls, and only ping us if something urgent comes through. Maybe two levels of pings, one for urgent, the other for important. Everything else just gets silently noted for later attention. Simple concept, but the implementation has a number of sticky wickets. How, for example, can software evaluate the importance of a phone call from my wife, who may be calling to tell me that our child is headed to the hospital, or that her mom called to thank us for a lovely Christmas gift?
