turning off email notifications

You can just use another app to silence all notifications during certain times. I use "Timeriffic". It allows me to set different profiles, with days, hours and what I want turned on and off. Try it out and see how you like it.

 

I am looking for the same thing. I currently use Bedside which turns off all sounds but lets me set a white list for the phone numbers that I want to get calls from. My son recently deployed to Afghanistan and I can't set a number as they all show up as out of area. I need something that will let me tsilence email, text, facebook, etc notifications but allow ALL phones calls to ring through.

 

Try Sound Manager v2 from Google play/Android market. It won't turn you're notifications off (you'll still get the icon & LED) but you can set schedules for your different volume settings including muting.

 

Profile Scheduler. This free version has ads.

Maybe this might work for you? It has whitelist contacts, separate volume settings for notifications, voice, ringtone, etc.