gary_woodfine on Nostr: I don't know who needs to or wants to read this but here it is. Over the past 6-8 ...
I don't know who needs to or wants to read this but here it is.
Over the past 6-8 months I have completely transformed my relationship with my phone and my actual screen time on my phone has literally dropped to minutes a day.
Heres what I have done. The first few steps, are unbelievably the hardest to do, yet are ultimately the on paper the supposedly the easiest.
I set a fixed time of the evening that I put the phone down, and not pick it up again at all, for me this was 20:00.
I put it down, and never pick it up again No matter what. This step is really hard, as I am sure you will find out, but honestly you have to push through it and commit to it.
I also stopped taking the phone into my bedroom at all. So literally where you put your phone down at 08:00 is where you pick it up in the morning. For me, this was in my office.
The next step, is a technological one, I switched to GrapheneOS, and this step completely refocused my phone usage.
I became very much more deliberate in my choice of apps. It's not that there is limited choice of apps on GrapheneOS, and you can get whatever app you would want on your phone.
but I also took the view, that I was not going to install any mainstream app on my phone. This is hard to do, but also it makes you prioritise what you do on your phone.
The end result is I have 10 apps on my phone, 4 of which I have developed myself and deployed it to my phone. The other apps I have installed on my phone,
are connected to my own infrastructure. For Instance, I have Zeus Wallet, which is connected to my own node.
Then I have other apps i.e. VPN and Brave Browser.
Then I tend change my preferred Nostr client on what it seems a weekly basis, just to mess around. So far , I have circulated through Primal, Dark Wisp, Amethyst, Nostria etc.
and I have developed my own client.
The end result, is my phone is no longer an extension of me, it is nothing but a tool to enable me to do stuff occassionally during the day.
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