I find myself checking out pretty often and just making myself feel bad about the state of the world, or killing half an hour on stupid games that I could 100% live without. This is probably pretty common, and I’m wondering what other people have found as a way to do more productive things with their phones in the downtime.
-Get a lot of spam calls and texts
-Read e-books
-Keep email notifications up to remind me to check them on desktop
-Watch Youtube to fall asleep
-Listen to my work in progress songs between working on them, take notes on what to do next
Read e-books
There have been times when I have wanted to do that, especially when I forgot my physical book when I’m outside the home and I have some spare time…
Regardless, I don’t know why I never feel comfortable with it, perhaps I’m a bit spoiled with my iPad and my Kindle, I have the same feeling for mangas and for comics.
It’s exactly for that convenience and random downtime that I keep a few on my phone! Waiting in line has never been so enjoyable.
Perhaps, as a backup option might be a good call.
I mean… there’s porn
And stock quotes!
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Remote into one of my desktops to get stuff done. Check email. Research for some upcoming project I’m planning.
Pull it out. Look at the time. Remember I didn’t want to doomscroll. Put it back. Repeat.
Nothing, really. I only check the chats with my best friends, look at the time, and check the school timetable (I do have it on paper, but they always make some changes and then I’m the idiot for going to the wrong class…)
Check mails, check Lemmy, check WhatsApp, check Discord. If it wasn’t for WhatsApp, I could probably live without a phone.
I guess I also use it to keep the Arch install guide open until I learn the process by heart.
Way too much music and occasionally working on some personal writing projects that don’t end up anywhere because I have started so many that I lose interest in an idea/story.
I use maps for navigation (mostly OsmAnd) and improve OpenStreetMap with my self-made website (https://mapcomplete.org)
Pretty much just communication and occasionally looking up some info. I save gaming and everything else for the computer. Phones are portable, but they are pretty awful for anything beyond the basics. Plus, if I’m out and about, I want to be there, not on my phone.
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I’ve been playing chess and chess puzzles.
I take a lot of pictures. Mostly of my pets. Yes, I do actually look back at old photos and I love it.
I don’t have any social media (other than this, which I guess counts). Where my friends hit their Instagram or Facebook, I just scroll through my old photos. “aw look at the time the cat found a box” or “oh remember when we went to storm king?”.
Works fine. Less rage.
Outside of some of the other things that have already been mentioned, I sometimes use Tachyomi to read manga/comics.
I make GPX traces for OpenStreetMap. I also make annotations and even small edits for the same project. Listen to music and YouTube videos (don’t really watch a lot), check my messaging apps, etc. I actually try a lot of stuff from Fdroid.
