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There are a lot of phone haters on this app and I respect that.
I always thought ppl who slept with their phone out of reach were insane.
I have a hard time waking up in the morning, but I saw this video of this woman saying the sleep you get after your alarm goes off is so bad itās not even worth it. So set your alarm as late as you can and then just get up. This has really helped me so I donāt care if itās true and I donāt want to know unless it is.
if the phone is across the room I donāt scroll before bed, which Iām kinda mostly weaned off anyway, but I also donāt get that creepy fake fomo that makes me need to check it one last time before I close my eyes AND I also have to get up to turn the alarm off. And then I have a second to remember itās not worth getting back in bed.
Sometimes you even get a surprise text or something from after you put it down and that can be fun
I donāt know if phone is more good or bad. Easy to fetishize a āsimpler timeā I never even lived through. But I think we are in control of our destinies and donāt need it as much as we think. Real life is better.
This was about waking up to alarm but now itās about phone.
Ps I wrote this standing where I leave my phone for the night
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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%.
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Sep 24, 2024
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so that when i wake up there's at least some sort of threshold between me and my phone,āand that threshold requires putting on pantsāso maybe (just maybe) i won't end up doomscrolling in bed in my underwear every morning.
lowkey it works
Aug 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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