It sounds like you could benefit from the “time management technique” of e-mail batching
Specifically, you set aside specific times each day when you will check your inbox/messages. Depending on your job role, that might be “every hour, on the hour” or “when I start work, get back from lunch, and right before I leave” or something in-between. Then after attending to anything there, you turn off your e-mail and other messaging applications, and do your productive work until the next check-in time.
Let the rest of your team know that asynchronous communications won’t be attended to immediately, and to call/use the one synchronous app if something needs immediate response (and do the same: don’t send an e-mail or Skype message if you need or expect or “anticipate” a reply within 5 minutes.
It sounds like you could benefit from the “time management technique” of e-mail batching
Specifically, you set aside specific times each day when you will check your inbox/messages. Depending on your job role, that might be “every hour, on the hour” or “when I start work, get back from lunch, and right before I leave” or something in-between. Then after attending to anything there, you turn off your e-mail and other messaging applications, and do your productive work until the next check-in time.
Let the rest of your team know that asynchronous communications won’t be attended to immediately, and to call/use the one synchronous app if something needs immediate response (and do the same: don’t send an e-mail or Skype message if you need or expect or “anticipate” a reply within 5 minutes.