hello wonderful humans recently I read a book called irresistible the rise of
addictive technology and the business of keeping us hooked after reading this book I have come to
the decision that my future children will not be allowed to watch TV until they're 12 and they will
not get cellphones until they're 27 it was kind of a scary book it talked about how substance
addiction is remarkably similar to behavioral addictions like playing video games or checking
social media all day long so I wanted to make this video and talk about not only what is on my phone
which is fun to talk about I really like watching videos like this but also how I try to make my
phone a tool for productivity as much as I can and less of a distraction because I definitely will
never ever permanently give up my phone not to be dramatic but I would literally die but I can do
things to make it less problematic so welcome to a tour of my phone first and foremost it's an iPhone
8 team iphone on my lockscreen I usually just rotate out different pictures of BTS and then on
my home screen I have like a aesthetic sunset sky as my wallpaper so one of the first things that
people usually notice about my phone is that it's in black and white I've read an article once about
all the little tricks that phone companies and app companies use to suck you in and keep you using
their products and one of those tricks even though it doesn't really feel that much like a trick
is just the use of color so my phone when it's colorful is very colorful and fun and engaging
but I don't want my phone to be fun engaging like for example those badge notifications that red
color just makes them so tempting like you want to see what the notification is or for example
on Instagram the DM is when they're like this hot pink color like I don't know about you but
I really want to know what those notifications are but somehow like psychologically once I switch it
to black and white it just doesn't entice me as much I'm gonna switch it back to color for this
video because I want to keep you watching this video so I'm gonna use the same tricks that app
companies use real quick the way that you set this up on iphone is you go to your settings
accessibility at the bottom rapid function so this programs your triple home press and the one
you want to choose is color filter and this part might already be preset but in case it doesn't
work you're gonna have to go to screen and text size go down to the color filter option and then
make sure that your grayscale filter is turned on not the other ones so now if I just triple
click I can quickly switch between my grayscale mode and my color mode and I like to have this
shortcut because for example if I'm editing photos I'm a talented photographer but not so talented
that I can edit in grayscale so if I'm editing something I'll quickly turn the colors back on if
I'm watching YouTube I don't want to watch videos in grayscale so it's just very easy to access that
the second thing that people usually notice about my phone is that it's in Spanish estan espanol
por que yo necesito practicar espanol you actually learned a lot of words by doing this and the cool
thing about it is that all of the words you learn are like applicable to your life because they
appear on your phone and it's modern vocabulary that a modern person would use to talk about
technology and their phone and apps and things like that for this video I'm gonna actually go and
switch my phone back to English just to make it easier for my primarily english-speaking audience
I am constantly changing around the way I have my notification set up so for example recently at one
morning I woke up and I was turning my alarm off and I saw not one but two stressful emails on my
lockscreen so my day had not even started and already I felt like this anxious feeling all
throughout my morning routine it just set me up for a bad day and so after that I turned off my
email lockscreen notifications and I only kept email notifications in the notification center
I am saying notifications so much but that way I have to like make the decision to swipe down in
order to see my emails and I can pretty easily avoid them if I don't want to get stressed out
by any emails avoidance is the best strategy so the main things I focus on with notifications is
number one just having as few of them as possible so for example for Instagram I only get Instagram
notifications if someone deems me in my primary inbox which is only for friends and I have a lot
of apps for which I don't get any notifications because I just do not care the second thing with
notifications is that I try to just remember that I have the power to manage my notifications so as
soon as I get like some unhelpful notification from a new app I go and I turn that off I just
also experiment a lot with my settings in general so one time I disabled all message previews so all
it said was that I got a message from someone but it didn't say who it was from or what it said but
I found this actually maybe more distracted because then I was curious to go see what
the message was so then I switched it back but it's okay because you just keep experimenting
another little general topic is I use the Do Not Disturb function a lot before I go to bed
and sometimes before I start working on something important where I need to stay focused I do have
it set so that if my family calls me where is it there it is if my family calls me or if someone
calls me multiple times in a row that's probably important so those calls are allowed to go through
but everything else is blocked alright let's talk about apps the apps that I have in my dock I think
it's called at the bottom are to do which is what I use for daily planning my habit tracker my time
tracker and then this new app that I got for tracking how much water I drink wait what I I
drink so much water yesterday no ok anyways the apps that I have on my home screen are apps that
I use on a daily basis so for example I use my banking app every day maybe multiple times a day
but I'm not addicted to checking my banking app so basically this first screen is all apps that I use
on a daily basis that are like pure productivity and functionality and just nothing distracting
that I could get caught up in so some of the apps that I have here I actually use my notes up a
lot I got it all nice and organized and now it's actually super helpful so I have it synchronized
with my computer and I have different folders like for blogging I have different hashtags that I use
for different kinds of posts Pinterest boards that I pinned to photography hashtags photo shoot ideas
I'm not gonna open up my dream journal because that stuff is weird um some recipes in my personal
folder I literally have a note where I keep track of how often I change my contacts and wash my hair
because these are basic human functions that I can't seem to keep track of in my mind and so I
need to outsource them to technology I have loved Spotify I love making monthly playlists because
30 days is about a good amount of time until I get sick of the songs that I listen to in the start of
the month and also if I'm ever feeling nostalgic I can literally pick a month and be like transported
back in time to that month just by listening to that playlist I also use Spotify for listening
to podcast favorites are probably the duolingo Spanish podcast and the minimalist podcast in
my Photos app I have a few helpful folders so one folder that I use a lot is actually the favorites
and the reason I do this is because when airdrop something from my computer to my phone to post on
Instagram the date associated with the file is not the date that I airdrop to my phone I don't know
if any of this explanation makes sense but so when I go to Instagram and I want to post something on
stories it's not in chronological order and so the stuff that I want to post just gets lost
somewhere so what I do is after I airdrop it I put a heart on it and then I can just open
the favorites folder and quickly find it other helpful folders I have in my Notes app I have a
folder for it BTS menes because those are so often applicable to conversations I also have a folder
for photos to post on my photography account which just makes the social media promotion
process so much faster um other apps that I use a lot I love Google Calendar clue is a great period
tracker that also has a lot of interesting symptom tracking features I could not survive even in my
hometown without Google Maps I love the insight timer meditation app I use the clock app a lot
for setting 25-minute Pomodoro timers and yeah that's pretty much the first page so let's move
on to the second page and get into all the apps that waste my time basically these are either
apps that I don't use that often or I don't want to allow myself easy access to this folder is
basically just a trash folder next up is my photo and video folder I use Google photos for backing
up all of my personal and blog photos perfect video is obviously a video editing app which
is very very versatile I do not like using iMovie this feels a lot more like editing on a computer
just on a smaller screen and so I use this for editing little Instagram videos or if I have a
time-lapse videos that I need to speed up just any like very minor little video I didn't said I need
to do Lightroom is my go-to for photo editing 8-millimeter takes super cute aesthetic vintage
videos blur photo does exactly what the name says story lux and unfold have great Instagram stories
templates ruler brullar are is that app that was trendy like months ago where you take a video and
then said glitter and sparkles camera connect for using my phone as a remote for my Canon camera and
then one second a day which I have since given up on I just realized I really suck at taking
videos every day all right this is the big one this is the social category I have a interesting
relationship with the apps in this category of YouTube I've probably deleted on ten separate
occasions and then I get fed up with trying to find videos on Safari I redownload it I delete
it again I also used to use Pinterest and Twitter way too much so as you can see I've deleted those
now I use Pinterest on my computer occasionally and Twitter I will go to Safari but the catch is
that now since my phone is in Spanish it'll show me tweets in Spanish which makes it much more
difficult and a lot less fun which is the goal so other social apps the top row is for communicating
with people I've got Instagram and then unum for planning Instagram posts and then YouTube studio
MailChimp and Squarespace are for blogging my education folder used to have more when I went
to school but now it's just a Korean dictionary Spanish dictionary and then Italkie which is where
I recently started taking like tutoring lessons in the house folder I have my gym app one of my
favorite workout apps which I pretty much credit with the reason why I have any level of fitness
today or I'm able to do any amount of push-ups I've got an interval timer and then this is the
old period tracking app that I used to use but I've just been too lazy to figure out how to
export the data for a minute so I just keep it around utilities is pretty much a catch-all for
anything that I don't know how to categorize so yeah entertainment is the folder that consistently
disappoints all the young children who play with my phone and finally my travel folder has a lot of
apps it grew considerably while I was traveling in Europe probably the ones that I use the most our
culture trip for planning trips and then hit list for keeping track of some flight prices but there
are a lot of apps like Welling and flixbus and Ryanair that I only need when I'm flying Ryanair
or taking a flixbus but they do really come in handy in that situation so like they don't take
up a lot of space on my phone don't mind just keeping them stashed in this folder also this
is not even about what's on my phone but I cannot have my phone anywhere in sight while I'm working
I'm pretty sure there's been studies done on this we're literally just the presence of a
phone negatively impacts people's productivity and their social interactions so what I'm doing
a pulled or of work time I have to literally hide my phone so that I don't even see it out of the
corner of my eye and I highly recommend doing that as well because there is just some bad energy that
comes from phones even if it's not making any noise it's not showing any notifications it's
just there it still has an effect on you so in conclusion phones are pretty helpful for example
those three apps that I have at the bottom of my Docs are pretty much the machinery that keeps my
life running and I don't know how I would live without them but I do hate how much my phone
sucks me in sometimes and I'm trying to manage that I think the most important thing is to keep
experimenting and changing things so the way that you use your phone is constantly changing
so you should be updating your notification settings deleting old apps you don't use anymore
rearranging your apps if you are not happy with your phone habits you have to remember that you
have the power to do something about it you have the power to reprogram your phone basically and
change the role that it plays in your life so that's the moral of this video give this
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