@foone I can very much relate, but… actually, what do you mean by “it doesn’t make sense to have a notification system for them”? it clearly would be actually useful.
some terminals fire up a notification whenever a command finishes while the terminal isn’t in focus, i bet that could help with some of the cases
headmate’s boyfriend mentions having an alias alert="some notify-send bullshit", which would also solve some aspects of this, though you have to have the foresight to append ; alert ahead of time
though, if you’re not being paid to do what you’re doing? maybe getting distracted and coming back to it whenever is the more comfy solution