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Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Before installing all those apps the author listed, I'd recommend this exercise: Let the battery die on your phone, and live one week without it. Cold turkey. Tell people in advance if you need to, give them an alternate way to reach you. Replace your phone for that week with a small notebook that fits in your pocket. During that week, every time you want to do something that requires a smartphone, jot it down in you…

But I need my phone daily. I can’t log in to my client’s servers without 2FA, can’t make payments, can’t do many things that are super important.

I found Jomo app perfect instead. I blocked all apps and websites that are distracting or promote doom scrolling behavior in me. Once I went through a detox I’ve allowed them in the evenings for 15 minutes only when conditions are met (I’ve exercised and walked 10k steps etc.). I generally don’t have desire to use them then but I might have messages from my friends or I might want to publish something myself.

Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Thanks for this. I'm setting it up now, works for me as advertised. My screen time jumped a lot in the last couple weeks and my mental health has declined in proportion. I use Freedom, but it's a bit glitchy and too easy to delete the app if you really want to cheat. I'm waffling a bit on the default-deny approach to websites. I think that might cause serious headaches since e.g. scanning QR codes to interact with bu…

Congratulations! I myself independently arrived where the author is over years of self experimentation, but I think you'll get used to it in no more than a month. I even use a whitelist (i.e. default-deny) for websites on my work laptop these days. I have ADHD though, YMMV.

I think anyone desperate enough to attempt this probably also has ADHD!
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