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Focus Phone for Productivity & Mindfulness
The phones are not the problem.
We are. We can turn these time-wasting machines into instruments of focus.
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Apps & Time
They help with your productivity and work flow:
- Forest App for pomodoro timer
- News app from Microsoft and Google
- Medium, of course
- Twitter for guilty pleasure
- Deepstash for learning new ideas and thoughts 🖤
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What to keep
- Calls and internet access (obviously)
- Navigation apps
- Short form reading oriented apps for productivity boost and learning something new on the toilet or break time (Deepstash 🖤)
- Pomodoro timer app to use during work hours
- Tasks list for big goals of the day
- Some utility apps such as Optimizer and flashlight
- Mono tone solid color background to remind yourself that this phone is not fun
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What not to keep
- No Messaging app
- No Media and streaming apps such as Netflix, Twitch… (no apps that generate audio and videos)
- No Games except if it helps you learn something
- No widgets
- Limitation on Social Media app (I failed and still have twitter for catching up news)
- Minimal UI to limit “phubbing” and avoid opening apps that you are not planning to
- Get rid of android bloatwares somehow (hiding it or uninstalling it)
- NO work related apps in there
- Don’t use this mobile number to receive junk SMS (promo, offers, coupons)
- Don’t subscribe any SaaS services to reduce notifications
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CURATOR'S NOTE
Our phones may not be the problem for our lack of concentration, but the way we use them by overcrowding them with distracting apps & notifications.
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Irina Bălan's ideas are part of this journey:
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