This is a bit of a more radical idea than some of my previous suggestions, but I would suggest perhaps adding a command ingame that disables and re-enables in game messages, for example messages from burying bones, agility courses, mining, smithing, picking flax, etc.
When I'm doing these types of activities it is hard for me to follow conversations in game and on yell. Obviously my idea for this type of command would be like an on and off switch, kind of how locking still exp works.
What do you guys think?