Joanna Stern on the Pixel 11 ‘HiLight’ Notification Light

Joanna Stern, writing at The New Things (gift link): I used to love the blinking notification light on my BlackBerry, and later my Droid 2. It was a simple way to know I had a message without actually looking at my messages. Then BlackBerry let you customize the color, and it was a rainbow dream. Google’s HiLight takes it a step further by letting you assign different colors to VIP contacts. So…