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i got myself something a brand new paper bag no there's something inside the bag i'm sure there's
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honestly i would not say you are 100 wrong but i looked at getting a new phone as an opportunity to
kind of look at what i had on my previous phone and how i was using it
and see which apps do i actually want to transfer over to the new one and which apps can i say bye
bye to i have previous phone tour videos if you're interested in those i partly talk about the apps
that i have but also partly how i kind of try to hack the psychology of what makes phones addicting
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they make it to transfer everything from your old phone to your new one
these widgets are just not working these shortcuts are not working and also i just
feel like i wanted a fresh start i wanted to redesign my home screen so i'm just going to
get rid of everything okay so the first thing i want to do is go into each of these categories
and delete stuff if applicable why do i have so many voicemails how do i mark them as red
there we go i'm trying to learn tik tok and understand it it is definitely not addicting
to me at the moment because my for you page has absolutely no idea what i'm interested in
and so it shows me like videos about surgeries like medical information kind of videos
there are a lot of apps in this category
i don't know i really don't know oh i don't use trello anymore i totally forgot the travel
category is apps that i use once in a while these are apps that are super useful when i'm traveling
not when i'm at home but because i have this app library they stay nice and hidden away
when i don't need them and so i don't mind keeping them on my phone they don't take up much storage
they'll come in handy eventually oh yeah i have not run in a while this app i did not enjoy
huevos oh my gosh what games do i have i haven't played among us since it was trendy just dance is
fun i still do that 2048 is a good good game for the brain also this background is depressing i
don't know why i set storm clouds as my background let's see this is pretty okay we're doing this all
righty there we go so then what widgets do i want on here let us think you can do this
okay do we do a big one yeah we have room okay then apps so then in the dock let's put the camera
the photos the oh my gosh wait that's not the time tracking app that i use anymore
yeah let's put these in the home or the dock thingy and then leave those two up there
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my tips for having a better relationship with your phone i would say the main philosophy that
i try to apply to my technology is that it shouldn't necessarily be easy to use
so as i'm organizing my apps my thought is not how do i make all of this super easy to access but
rather how do i make the important non-distracting things easy to access on the first page of apps
and then how do i just hide everything else away in the app library so that apps like instagram
for example actually take a couple of apps to get to a couple of taps not a couple of apps
secondly i try to keep in mind that a lot of the apps i might want to have on my phone
are things that i can access on my computer so for example i do have instagram on my phone
because i'm pretty sure you can't upload stories from the web version of instagram
and if you could it would be a huge hassle but so having instagram on my phone is totally worth it
however for something like twitter i'm i'm kind of trying to get into tweeting but i don't do it
enough and i find twitter to be so distracting that it just brings no additional benefit for
me to have it on my phone therefore if i want to tweet something i can just go to the web version
third i try to be really strict with notification so that just involves a lot of customization and
going through all of the apps and deciding is this information actually helpful would i
want my phone my watch whatever to actually buzz me and distract me while i am working
to let me know about something so for a lot of apps this is either a yes or a no for instagram
no i do not want any notifications i just can't imagine any notification that instagram might send
that would be important enough for me to want a notification i have this other app that sends
me affirmations throughout the day so that one is allowed to send me notifications there are
other apps however that are sort of a mixed bag so for example text messages i usually do allow text
messages but i will mute certain conversations if a group chat is getting a little too spammy
but i think it really just comes down to you deciding every single time you get a notification
is this something that i want to continue getting or should i take the 10 seconds that it'll take
to go into the settings app and turn these off so that i don't get these anymore in the future
something that i used to do that i don't really do anymore is i used to have a
triple click home button shortcut that would set my phone to grayscale
that makes your phone way less engaging and it's very easy to revert back if you're watching a
video or editing a photo or something like that where you need to see the colors obviously this
new phone does not have a home button so i'm not entirely sure how you would configure that
but i'm sure that if you go into the accessibility section of the settings app you can find a way
finally i think a popular feature when it comes to mindful phone use and whatnot is those app
limits that you can set on particular apps or categories of apps if that works for you more
power to you but in my experience i have found that if i am in a good mental health place and
i have removed the most distracting apps from my phone i have taken care to reduce notifications
and all that good stuff i just do not really get stuck scrolling on my phone i don't get sucked in
however if i am in a bad mental health place and i really want to scroll those app limits
stand absolutely no chance against me so i just found that they were not useful to
me but that is something that you might want to implement as you're experimenting with your phone
i just realized that one of the things i can use my old phone for is as a monitor for my camera
because sometimes i want to film for example a b-roll shot where i'm doing something on my phone
but i also want to make sure that the shot looks good but i can't do that at the same time what i
wanted to show you actually or the reason i came over to my bed here for a change of background
is just a little example of how i use my phone on the day-to-day so obviously some of the apps get
switched around i try new apps i stop using older apps but like the core foundation of the most
basic apps that i always use let's imagine that it is morning and i have just woken up usually the
first app that i go to is spotify i don't know why i'm showing you because i'm gonna put it on the
screen next to me anyways so i use spotify to make playlists for every single month i've been doing
this for over four years now so i'll either go to that or i'll just shuffle all of my liked songs
during breakfast i like to listen to a podcast and that is pretty much it for the morning throughout
the day probably the apps that i use the most would be my habit tracker and i had another
bottle of water and then my time tracker and that is correct i am currently shooting a video i do
love using apple calendar ical so it's really nice to have it on my phone but usually i do reference
it on my computer and sometimes i use apple notes but again i also usually use it on my computer so
that's it and then i think the most heavy app usage of mine is in the evening so in the evening
i check in on a bunch of apps okay so i check the time tracking app i also check my to-do list on
my computer i look at the bank app to update my budget i update my period tracking app with any
symptoms i update my day one journal so usually i type out an entry on my computer but then i
add photos and stuff to it on my phone because that's easier and yeah i think that's it that's
like the daily usage of my most essential apps of course i use the other apps as well but not
as consistently so i'm very excited to play around with this some more i am especially
excited about this wide angle camera hello that is so weird there's my dirty socks
yeah i need to clean up so yeah i'm very excited to play around with it i hope that this video was
helpful in some way that you got some actionable tips for how to make your phone more of a tool
and less of a distraction let me know in the comments if you have any tips or tricks for
managing your relationship with your phone or if you have any favorite useful apps or anything
like that or if you just want to say anything feel free to do that you can also check out my
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