One of my happiest purchases of the last few years was a smartwatch. It has a different vibration pattern for every type of notification, meaning I can set my phone to silent permanently and still know what's going on.
It's kind of empowering to receive a message and know if I even need to look at my wrist or not (let alone actually bring out my phone). Makes me feel like a cyborg.
Plugging in a charger sounds the same as receiving a text message sounds the same as an email arriving.