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recently turned off (mostly) all immediate lockscreen notifications bc nothing is ever that important. only phone calls, facetimes, libby, and classpass allowed thru.
i also like to schedule notification summaries so my phone tells me just once a day what PI.FYI notifications iāve collected or what the Pattern app predicts heading my way, astrologically speaking. itās nice and doesnāt hold my attention for long.
pros: seeing texts pile up and feeling like most popular girl in the world, no twitchy reaction everytime phone lights up bc now i know its one of four things, incredible renewed ability to FOCUS on reading or drawing or literally anything else, not being pulled into depths of phone as much
cons: was trying to sell a chair and accidentally ignored this poor sweet girl for days, even on the nights she was free to pick up chairā¦like just forgot ab itā¦ thankfully she just showed up and conversed w my roommate like olden times and i was hollered at while watching Love is Blind
iām also switching to greyscale so it makes everything look boring. i need all the help i can get iāll be so fr
this wretched device!!!!
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as a side effect of my job (and being me): I am chronically online and trying to fix that. this is my new home screen on my iPhone 15 Pro. I installed an app blocker so that when I shift into my custom minimal focus, only the default apps and what is on my home screen function.
its only been a few days but this paired with journaling when Iām āboredā instead of endlessly scrolling has already had a positive effect on my mental health. I can still freely browse on my desktop, but my phone is slowly turning into less and less of a dopamine sink and I think Iām gonna stick with it!!
Feb 8, 2024
i have been on a journey to untangle my tasks from my iPhone.
i'd be out in the world someplace, pull out my phone for something as menial as checking the time, or as well intentioned as capturing the moment in a pic, and immediately get sucked into texts and instagramā¢ļø and all the virtual things happening in this tiny lil demon light box.
the goal: pull my phone out of my bag ONLY for phone things. that's texting, calling, and apps that can't be replaced
the solutions so far:
š°ļø i started with a watch (shoutout Casio) and i wear it every day. once I broke the habit of checking my phone for the time, I felt legitimately freed from something Major
š· I bought a small digital camera to leave in my bag. the pics look better and I donāt get distracted by the virtual world when I'm trying to capture something in the now
š I bought a kindle. It fits in my jacket pocket (literally) and gives me something to do when I'm on the train or waiting for an appointment that isn't scrolling
I just realized so much of the time I spent on my phone was not intentional. It was a thing I was doing in between Other intentional moments. my screen time is still several hours a day (donāt get me wrong) but I think my brain has healed at least 3%.
welcoming other ideas as wellš”
Sep 24, 2024
Iāve converted to a flip phone and itās honestly so fun lol. I think the way we have access to everything, and everyone, in milliseconds is rotting our brains and making us such an entitled society; entitled to other peopleās time and energy on demand, their lives, business, etc. but I also think the way we get sucked in with links from app to app, ads, videos, and doomscrolling, everything is designed to be addictive and it leads (at least for me) to less productivity and more procrastination. I think having to work just a little harder, even to do something as simple as research something, can be good for us.
So what Iāve done is essentially converted my iPhone to a wifi connected iPod touch like from the old days. Iāve left on certain apps like FaceTime, banking apps, Spotify, kindle app, I kept this one to use occasionally and all my saved recipes on my phone of course, etc. but I leave it in my room and just use it in the morning or before bed for reading or checking emails, music for working out, stuff like that, and leave it at home for everything else.
Screen time of course is way down which is nice, itās also really nice to not feel like I constantly need to be checking something, opening a message on an app, etc. I also have found so far and think it will continue to help me not spend so much money impulsively on things I donāt actually need.
Aside from all of the benefits, I think in general I just find it funny and all of my friends think itās hilarious lol. Iāll have to figure out what Iāll do for airports, maybe bring the old iPhone with me, connect to airport wifi, scan boarding passes with it. Iāll figure that out when I get there.
Feb 26, 2025
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i love that our seemingly high-tech phones still cannot do the job of capturing the moonās ethereal essence. itās so humbling and vulnerable to attempt to take a photo of her and have it come out all ugly and orb-like. itās literally none of ur business to see what she looks like anytime apart from the present moment!
(and please donāt tell me if samsung or google pixel have invented technology to do a better job of this. it wouldnāt sit right with meā¦ like trying to sneakily undress a woman without her consent when she has explicitly stated sheād rather remain demurely clothed and mysterious)
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