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something unique about me is that I need to be on my phone less. this app has been the most helpful deterrent for some reason...don't want to spoil how but every time I want to open instagram, for example, I have to do something humiliating like "exercise patience."
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Like lucius says about adding friction: there’s an app called One Sec that simply puts a couple seconds between you and an app (like Instagram). It’s supposed to make it annoying for you each time you open the app so over time your mind desires to open it less and less. It prompts you to breathe during those seconds too, to get you to be mindful instead of impulsive with your phone use. I’ve been using it with Instagram and it has worked to stave off my phone addiction, at least on the front of removing the mindless impulse to doomscroll.
Apr 30, 2024
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this app has helped me so many times in instagram addiction.
sometimes its annoying, but overall it is fantastic. so many stupid dms not sent. a secent amount of reels-spirals avoided.
the free version basically intervenes everytime you open instagram, and asks you to take a breath. you take a breath in, out. its not counted in numbers, but a slow simple visual. then it asks if you want to continue to open instagram, or close it. it makes everytime i open the app INTENTIONAL.
I really love that its not a countdown. I have experienced the breath as taking 14 seconds, or sometimes just a second and a half. i have no actual idea how long the breath thing is, even though its always the same, because I always experience the length different depending on my phone addiction vibe.
****FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS WHEN U DOWNLOAD THE APP!! do not just download it then forget it!! I downloaded it then let it sit in my phone doing nothing for months when i first got it. i almost forgot about it but once it was implemented, i loved it. You can apply the app to any app you want, not just instagram.
posting bc i am going to temporarily take off one sec to see if i can do without it. going to miss whenever someone asked me to do something on instagram, then we took a breath together. slowed down moments mid-conversation. maybe ill implement myself..
May 17, 2024
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Prevents me from spending an unwell amount of time on instagram and twitter. It shows you how many times you’ve tried to get on an app in the previous 24 hours and makes you do some extremely annoying task beforehand. Bonus points if you turn on front facing camera so you are forced to look at yourself every time you go to sad scroll. It is rewiring my brain to feel disgust when I click on those evil apps
May 21, 2024
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I valued the idea of being low maintenance and chill for so long and I don't know if it's been living in LA and or being around more rich people but I realized recently that it is all a lie. every single person that is effortlessly “just being themselves” is lying. They are getting acupuncture and lymphatic drainage and taking pilates and yoga 3 times a week and getting facials and layering $90 serums and creams on top of their face and going to erewhon 80 times a day to get probiotic water that does not exist. they are a project. and guess what? so am I! sometimes it's nice.
Jun 19, 2023
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so nice finishing something or having a friend finish something and then swapping that book. sharing things with your loved ones? making memories tactile? it's nice! (some that I've given or received that I've loved as of late: why fish don't exist - lulu miller, clarice lispector - an apprenticeship, how to do nothing - jenny odell, stay true - hua hsu)
Jun 19, 2023
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The world's tough place. There's lots of movies I want to see and because of the dumbest corporate reasons, lots of times they're unavailable or only available to buy on a streaming service. At that point I'd rather just get a blu-ray (s/o walmart dot com and the kino lorber sale...) but if I can't find one, or if it's $50, I'll straight up just see if it's avail to watch on youtube or through the internet archive and a lot of times it is. The quality might not be great, but that's okay. It's important to not get what you want sometimes in life. (Elaine May's A New Leaf, Scorsese's Kundun, Todd Solondz' Happiness, Akira Kuroswa's Dreams, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth etc. etc.)
Jun 19, 2023