Another option -- get a home phone line. These days you can get a VIOP number practically for free, and connect it to a physical telephone which sets on your desk. It's there if you need it, but of course, no smartphone functionality at all.
I have set up a work focus and private one. Distracting apps are blocked during working hours and the work apps for the rest of the day. Android does not have automatically changing focus modes, but this is manually possible with the work profile. I am not using two SIM cards but I have two voip numbers.
excellent video. i use a nokia 3310, its the navy blue colour, lovely little lad. and I use a PC for all my school and education related work and its perfect. my life really changed when I made this decision a few months ago, thanks for spreading the idea and message of dumb phones :) next year I will be doing to college and I will conitnue to use a dumb phone but my primary smartphone would be useful there, im gonna have to strike a balance :)
The flaw with the freedom app you are talking about is you can log out or quit. That is what needs to be changed. Even on the phone version you can restart in safe mode and access the apps you need. They need to update their platform so you are TRULY locked out when you run the app
I think they have a locked mode. But if it is something you are struggling with, I would recommend going full ham and whenever you need to do work, just turn your internet off on all your devices. Doesn't need to be overcomplicated. :) Hopefully you find a solution to your battles!
Respect for going through all these steps to defend yourself from the algorithms, however its better to develop mental fortitude to just not click or engage in these activies, without having tools to block them out for you. Because as technology progresses you may find you self in situations, where you cant just block social media or have a second device to fall back on, it may be something companies will prey on eventually. So if you got the agency to see the addicting thing and not interact with it, then you can strengthen your mental state in the process.
The whole idea is based on this quote from the atomic habits book - “When scientists analyze people who appear to have tremendous self-control, it turns out those individuals aren't all that different from those who are struggling. Instead, 'disciplined' people are better at structuring their lives in a way that does not require heroic willpower and self-control. In other words, they spend less time in tempting situations.”
@@KOKOTHELOCO that book isnt some sort of holy script, its just flawed to shut off everything distracting, as there will be days you wont be able to, so i guess i mean like learn to shut off the distractions internally.
@@MaebbieWhy would you do that though? You wouldn’t keep a cake in your fridge if you were planning to lose weight and not eat it, just to develop a mental fortitude against the temptation of it, would you?
@@jankolbe2879 i wouldn't intentionally put it there, but what if you come across a cake in a fridge at work or so. Not like you could just trash it to avoid temptation.
@@Maebbiehim blocking social media is his act of not intentionally putting the cake in the fridge. What happens outside of ones control is when you have to fight the temptation.
I too am fighting phone addiction. But also realised, two phones actually helps me. Putting my main iPhone away after a work day (with timed DnD), and using my Android like an iPad, with no social media is honestly great. Phones are useful as tools too such as timers, podcasts, clocks, calendars, etc.
I recently acquired a flip phone approximately two weeks ago, and I wanted to express my gratitude for providing content on how to effectively manage both a smartphone and a flip phone. Your breakdown of every aspect is exactly what I needed to hear.
This is exactly what I do I have a sonium xp3 flip phone that I use for texting and calls. I also have a iPhone 12 that I only use for data. If I want to be less distracted for the day I just leave my iPhone at home. I do make/receive all my calls and texts on my flip phone and just carry both phones most of the time
@@ArtOfHealth nope I stand by dumb 2 phones, like seriously you can't just stick with one, when people in other countries have never used/ owned their own phone,yeah I call that dumb and a bit selfish
Punkt and light phone are premium but they look much better than a cheap Nokia, people will pay for quality. Reason people buy a rolex, they could easily go buy a $20 dollar watch but they want premium quality like the Punkt
Very relatable video. I could never turn off the phone because I feared a family emergency. Now I’ve got a flip phone I keep in my apartment and I keep my iPhone in my mailbox. A small but very effective decision.
iPhone has focus modes. 10pm on weeknights, my phone goes into sleep focus and I have most apps hidden, so if I pickup my phone, I have to search to find apps, so I don’t. The only notifications I allow are from my daughter, but she’s in the other room, so it’s just for emergencies. Setting up different focus modes is kind of a pain, but it’s so helpful. I use my iPhone for work as well, so once I’m done and logged out for the day, I have a personal mode and get no notifications from Teams or Outlook for work. I setup a family mode for when I don’t want to be distracted and I’m hanging out with my daughter. Apple has come a long way with more than just having DND. You just have to take the time to do it. 😊
I simply bought a flip phone, the Blu Tank Flip and I left my other phone stored and I haven't used it again and that's it and it only uses WhatsApp and nothing else and that's how I distance myself from the networks and everything else
Totally agree...two best dumb phones on the market are the Sunbeam Orchid if you have to have a camera, otherwise the Light 2...the only time I use my smart phone is when I'm traveling via airports or when necessary at the office.
Smart watch can accomplish this too. You can set your phone in another room and to do not disturb, so only specific people can contact you. Also you can limit the notification types allowed on the watch.
Damn I've got a really long story to tell about my wish to use dumb phone instead of smartphone. Thx for video. Cool to know that more n more people change their life w/ using dumb phone
This is a great idea. I'm eating a similar variation but using a Nokia Kaios 4G phone, it's basically like a dumb phone It has some limited Google functionality but most importantly it can hotspot 4G. I mostly home-based but my main number is in my Nokia phone and all my WhatsApp Facebook etc is in my smartphone which I run off Wi-Fi, when I go out I take my smartphone and can regularly hotspot Wi-Fi off the Nokia to check emails and Facebook etc. I can't leave hotspot on all the time but it does drain the battery open Nokia if it's on a long time, no problem if you have a power bank though. I do have a second sim but it's very unimportant, I put it in my smartphone It just isn't emergency thing really so if anything happens to my other I can always call. It doubly helps if you have each similar different network so you have complete coverage when you in a blank spot of one sim. For me sometimes I can use my smartphone in a healthy way but if things are going wrong I can switch it off but no I'm still contactable in case the emergency. This was the thing that really made it so I couldn't put my smartphone down. I mean I'm still having my struggles I'm freely using my smartphone but there was a pathway to turn it off and went necessary. Wishing everyone the best
I always used a GSM dumbphone for calls and to take outside. Smartphone only at home with wifi. Looking for a quality GSM flip phone with basic internet functions, whatsapp and decent camera now.
Except there are an increasing number of jobs which you can't maintain if you're not contactable during all times of the day. I work in health care, if I don't spontaneously cover someone else's shift now and then I am considered less valuable and may be replaced. It's sad but that's what some work environments have become - a contest of who tolerates the worst lifestyle.
Hey. Thanks for those Chrome extensions. I've set them up myself, as I also spent too much time down the YT rabbit-hole. They've made a massive difference!!
Most of the time I am using laptop, so phone for me is not problem but laptop is. There is focus mode for android and it will not send you notification for apps that you don't want for some period of time. I am not sure how old phone will help because most of the time I am getting message ON whatsapp not SMS. I installed this chrome extensions, I used adblocker but if you want to search anything then you enable it and there is no ending :) Thanks
When my old smartphone died, I dug through my scrap electronics, and revived an old Blackberry. Because of the lack of Service Books, all I can do is call and text with it. I was forced to do all my online activity, including social media on a desktop computer. If I needed to do any extensive travel outside of the house, I have a dedicated Garmin GPS to handle navigation duties. I have since acquired another smartphone, but it doesn't have any phone service. I tend to use it more like an iPod, for listening to music and podcasts that I've saved onto it.
Damn youve got full in with the Garmin GPS. Good work, I think this is a battle that we all have to find a solution that works for us. There isn't a one-case fits all solution to this. Glad you found something that works for you!
@@KOKOTHELOCO I ended up finding the Garmin in a thrift store for $6. It turns out the GPS I bought also has a live traffic receiver, and lifetime map updates! I have found that it's a bit glitchy sometimes when I try to search for things, but what I do sometimes is I will save screenshots of Google maps on my desktop, and then transfer those to a tablet.
I have an recent model iphone but I struggle with wasting time scrolling and binging on YT and NFlix so I decided to buy a new 20$ european brand „basic” vintage type phone. I plan to switch my simcard depending on how focused and distraction-free I want to be on a given day
@@KOKOTHELOCO like even i have two phones, one android n one iphone. But so much content consumption is gradually repelling me to stay away from phones that I’ve deleted all apps that i hardly use and keep it that way. Anything that’s not worth my time gets deleted.
i know that this is a good video before even watching it. let me tell you all that I cannot fully downgrade myself to a dumbphone only because I work in tech and I work with tech. so smartphones are something I cannot fully get rid of in my life. But I have found the best way for an introvert like me to take control of things is to have all my work stuff be rid of social media, bloatware and only have works apps in those. then I have a high quality smart phone fully dedicated for leisure and games and fun and taking pics -- all the distracting fun stuff. That I keep in my closet locked away until it's the weekend or when I'm out with friends. then I have a dumbphone that's really very simple BUT smart enough to have all my necessary stuff like e-wallets and messaging apps in. that I take with me everywhere LOL
On my Android phone there's an option to block certain apps with password. I've just blocked addicting apps that I can't uninstall with a complex password and that's it. The password is so complex and long that it's way too much trouble to unblock app to use it.
I went from having a main phone and "music phone" to one old phone for an year. Besides not being able to listen to music with airpods on or opening the disappearing messages on IG, I didn't miss anything. Definitely more peaceful, your thoughts will just flow and they are not all over the place.
Hey man, I want to start a YT channel where I want to talk about Space. But I dont speak that well and fluently. Can you please guide or give me some tips on how can I over come these constraints, books, podcasts, anything please.
this is why i don't like it when phones make the notification dots be red. Google Pixel colors them with a bit of a lighter tone than the app icon itself.
@@KOKOTHELOCO Yeah they are, that's what I don't like. But they're still useful as at least on a pixel, they're just barely different in color from the app itself
Unfortunately alot of us tradies rely on our work phones to recieve our jobs and to do all the admin including timesheets on our phones. Ours phones are our office and there is no way of getting around that. Knock knock, reality is at the door!
I understand that for sure, that's why it is difficult to manage this palm sized thing. It is become a part of us, and there are always ways to make it so it is a positive rather than a negative in our life.
I don't need to watch this video to know it isn't good at all
Then you miss out
Wow
ok then sit on your bed depressed while scrolling through Instagram.
That's because you're trapped in the Matrix 🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣you got pin of shamed
I also lose a lot of time with youtube recomendations and those extensions will be a great help for me. Great video.
Thanks dude, glad u found it helpful
Agreed! You can even set call forwarding up on your smartphone to go to your dumbphone. No calls are missed. Love it
That’s a good idea!
Another option -- get a home phone line. These days you can get a VIOP number practically for free, and connect it to a physical telephone which sets on your desk. It's there if you need it, but of course, no smartphone functionality at all.
Deffo an option but a little too much effort to set up for my liking
I have set up a work focus and private one. Distracting apps are blocked during working hours and the work apps for the rest of the day.
Android does not have automatically changing focus modes, but this is manually possible with the work profile.
I am not using two SIM cards but I have two voip numbers.
Nice one, good system!
excellent video. i use a nokia 3310, its the navy blue colour, lovely little lad. and I use a PC for all my school and education related work and its perfect. my life really changed when I made this decision a few months ago, thanks for spreading the idea and message of dumb phones :)
next year I will be doing to college and I will conitnue to use a dumb phone but my primary smartphone would be useful there, im gonna have to strike a balance :)
Thank you and glad you found something that works for you! Good luck in college :)
Great tips!
Glad it was helpful!
The flaw with the freedom app you are talking about is you can log out or quit. That is what needs to be changed. Even on the phone version you can restart in safe mode and access the apps you need. They need to update their platform so you are TRULY locked out when you run the app
I think they have a locked mode. But if it is something you are struggling with, I would recommend going full ham and whenever you need to do work, just turn your internet off on all your devices. Doesn't need to be overcomplicated. :) Hopefully you find a solution to your battles!
I did this 15 years ago.. Nokia phone like that
i read atomic habit like it is new bible (again & again)
Haha bro, me and you both
I just don't use my smartphone when I'm not at work. I deleted all social media.
Good work!
Respect for going through all these steps to defend yourself from the algorithms, however its better to develop mental fortitude to just not click or engage in these activies, without having tools to block them out for you. Because as technology progresses you may find you self in situations, where you cant just block social media or have a second device to fall back on, it may be something companies will prey on eventually. So if you got the agency to see the addicting thing and not interact with it, then you can strengthen your mental state in the process.
The whole idea is based on this quote from the atomic habits book - “When scientists analyze people who appear to have tremendous self-control, it turns out those individuals aren't all that different from those who are struggling. Instead, 'disciplined' people are better at structuring their lives in a way that does not require heroic willpower and self-control. In other words, they spend less time in tempting situations.”
@@KOKOTHELOCO that book isnt some sort of holy script, its just flawed to shut off everything distracting, as there will be days you wont be able to, so i guess i mean like learn to shut off the distractions internally.
@@MaebbieWhy would you do that though? You wouldn’t keep a cake in your fridge if you were planning to lose weight and not eat it, just to develop a mental fortitude against the temptation of it, would you?
@@jankolbe2879 i wouldn't intentionally put it there, but what if you come across a cake in a fridge at work or so. Not like you could just trash it to avoid temptation.
@@Maebbiehim blocking social media is his act of not intentionally putting the cake in the fridge. What happens outside of ones control is when you have to fight the temptation.
No phone is better.
Perhaps
I too am fighting phone addiction. But also realised, two phones actually helps me. Putting my main iPhone away after a work day (with timed DnD), and using my Android like an iPad, with no social media is honestly great. Phones are useful as tools too such as timers, podcasts, clocks, calendars, etc.
They are about as useful as anything can get, just about balancing it all!
That’s the spirit
I recently acquired a flip phone approximately two weeks ago, and I wanted to express my gratitude for providing content on how to effectively manage both a smartphone and a flip phone. Your breakdown of every aspect is exactly what I needed to hear.
Oh man I am glad I was able to help! Hope your journey with your flip phone is a successful one!
Spot on Koko, totally agree. Going to take on board your tips and get a dumbphone as a second device. Great video as always keep them coming
Thanks dude, really appriciate it! Good luck with it, let me know how it goes :)
This is exactly what I do I have a sonium xp3 flip phone that I use for texting and calls. I also have a iPhone 12 that I only use for data. If I want to be less distracted for the day I just leave my iPhone at home. I do make/receive all my calls and texts on my flip phone and just carry both phones most of the time
this is quite dumb as you'd spend more $ at the end of the day doing this, might as well just buy a dumb phone instead and just have that
Thats a dumb idea. Gee, that dumb idea saved me $700 a year or in my TMO case $1500! Yeah, real dumb. Dumb, new replacement for Dope.
@@ArtOfHealth nope I stand by dumb 2 phones, like seriously you can't just stick with one, when people in other countries have never used/ owned their own phone,yeah I call that dumb and a bit selfish
If you can function with just a dumb phone go for it
Punkt and light phone are premium but they look much better than a cheap Nokia, people will pay for quality. Reason people buy a rolex, they could easily go buy a $20 dollar watch but they want premium quality like the Punkt
Yeah they do look good and there is a market for them.
Very relatable video. I could never turn off the phone because I feared a family emergency. Now I’ve got a flip phone I keep in my apartment and I keep my iPhone in my mailbox. A small but very effective decision.
We need stupid phone with whatsapp running on it
There are several of those. Especially from Nokia.
Qin f22
There are some
iPhone has focus modes. 10pm on weeknights, my phone goes into sleep focus and I have most apps hidden, so if I pickup my phone, I have to search to find apps, so I don’t. The only notifications I allow are from my daughter, but she’s in the other room, so it’s just for emergencies. Setting up different focus modes is kind of a pain, but it’s so helpful. I use my iPhone for work as well, so once I’m done and logged out for the day, I have a personal mode and get no notifications from Teams or Outlook for work. I setup a family mode for when I don’t want to be distracted and I’m hanging out with my daughter. Apple has come a long way with more than just having DND. You just have to take the time to do it. 😊
Great! Sounds like you have a good system in place :)
I simply bought a flip phone, the Blu Tank Flip and I left my other phone stored and I haven't used it again and that's it and it only uses WhatsApp and nothing else and that's how I distance myself from the networks and everything else
Good item for wholes
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Totally agree...two best dumb phones on the market are the Sunbeam Orchid if you have to have a camera, otherwise the Light 2...the only time I use my smart phone is when I'm traveling via airports or when necessary at the office.
Smart watch can accomplish this too. You can set your phone in another room and to do not disturb, so only specific people can contact you. Also you can limit the notification types allowed on the watch.
Damn I've got a really long story to tell about my wish to use dumb phone instead of smartphone.
Thx for video. Cool to know that more n more people change their life w/ using dumb phone
This is a great idea. I'm eating a similar variation but using a Nokia Kaios 4G phone, it's basically like a dumb phone It has some limited Google functionality but most importantly it can hotspot 4G. I mostly home-based but my main number is in my Nokia phone and all my WhatsApp Facebook etc is in my smartphone which I run off Wi-Fi, when I go out I take my smartphone and can regularly hotspot Wi-Fi off the Nokia to check emails and Facebook etc. I can't leave hotspot on all the time but it does drain the battery open Nokia if it's on a long time, no problem if you have a power bank though. I do have a second sim but it's very unimportant, I put it in my smartphone It just isn't emergency thing really so if anything happens to my other I can always call. It doubly helps if you have each similar different network so you have complete coverage when you in a blank spot of one sim. For me sometimes I can use my smartphone in a healthy way but if things are going wrong I can switch it off but no I'm still contactable in case the emergency. This was the thing that really made it so I couldn't put my smartphone down. I mean I'm still having my struggles I'm freely using my smartphone but there was a pathway to turn it off and went necessary. Wishing everyone the best
It is a complicated thing to solve for sure, so glad you found something that works :)
pakistani relating very much because of PTA taxes
I always used a GSM dumbphone for calls and to take outside. Smartphone only at home with wifi. Looking for a quality GSM flip phone with basic internet functions, whatsapp and decent camera now.
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Except there are an increasing number of jobs which you can't maintain if you're not contactable during all times of the day. I work in health care, if I don't spontaneously cover someone else's shift now and then I am considered less valuable and may be replaced. It's sad but that's what some work environments have become - a contest of who tolerates the worst lifestyle.
This is true, but there is always a way. Hope you find something that works for you!
Thanks for the Gmail tip 🙌. Omg! I have more than 10k. hehehe. It's been a challenge I've never wanted to face.
Happy to help!
Hey. Thanks for those Chrome extensions. I've set them up myself, as I also spent too much time down the YT rabbit-hole. They've made a massive difference!!
Glad the video helped you out :)
Thank you for all of the chrome extensions! They might be life saving!
Glad you found some value in this :)
Most of the time I am using laptop, so phone for me is not problem but laptop is. There is focus mode for android and it will not send you notification for apps that you don't want for some period of time. I am not sure how old phone will help because most of the time I am getting message ON whatsapp not SMS.
I installed this chrome extensions, I used adblocker but if you want to search anything then you enable it and there is no ending :) Thanks
Hopefully you find a way my friend!
hey
Hi
This setup is actually standardised where i am from
When my old smartphone died, I dug through my scrap electronics, and revived an old Blackberry. Because of the lack of Service Books, all I can do is call and text with it. I was forced to do all my online activity, including social media on a desktop computer. If I needed to do any extensive travel outside of the house, I have a dedicated Garmin GPS to handle navigation duties. I have since acquired another smartphone, but it doesn't have any phone service. I tend to use it more like an iPod, for listening to music and podcasts that I've saved onto it.
Damn youve got full in with the Garmin GPS. Good work, I think this is a battle that we all have to find a solution that works for us. There isn't a one-case fits all solution to this. Glad you found something that works for you!
@@KOKOTHELOCO I ended up finding the Garmin in a thrift store for $6. It turns out the GPS I bought also has a live traffic receiver, and lifetime map updates! I have found that it's a bit glitchy sometimes when I try to search for things, but what I do sometimes is I will save screenshots of Google maps on my desktop, and then transfer those to a tablet.
Keep em coming .. let's do this journey together ❤
We will
very confused how u only have 165 subs, this video is amazing
Have to start somewhere! I’ll take it as a compliment:)
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I found out that notifications are the main issue contributing to more screen time.
Yeah they don’t help for sure, hopefully the tools I listed can help you with that :)
Thank you so much bro
dumbphone and ipad
Nice one!
❤ love it all
nice
This is amazing! Thank you.
I have an recent model iphone but I struggle with wasting time scrolling and binging on YT and NFlix so I decided to buy a new 20$ european brand „basic” vintage type phone. I plan to switch my simcard depending on how focused and distraction-free I want to be on a given day
Good luck with it!
When i started using dumb phone my life become easy and focus... no more Drama in Social Media and wasting time scrolling...
less drama = better life
Why not just remove useless apps?
I am not against that, I get rid of my apps all the time, even if it’s just for a day
@@KOKOTHELOCO like even i have two phones, one android n one iphone. But so much content consumption is gradually repelling me to stay away from phones that I’ve deleted all apps that i hardly use and keep it that way. Anything that’s not worth my time gets deleted.
i know that this is a good video before even watching it. let me tell you all that I cannot fully downgrade myself to a dumbphone only because I work in tech and I work with tech. so smartphones are something I cannot fully get rid of in my life.
But I have found the best way for an introvert like me to take control of things is to have all my work stuff be rid of social media, bloatware and only have works apps in those.
then I have a high quality smart phone fully dedicated for leisure and games and fun and taking pics -- all the distracting fun stuff. That I keep in my closet locked away until it's the weekend or when I'm out with friends.
then I have a dumbphone that's really very simple BUT smart enough to have all my necessary stuff like e-wallets and messaging apps in. that I take with me everywhere LOL
Nice one! Sounds like you have a great system in place
On my Android phone there's an option to block certain apps with password. I've just blocked addicting apps that I can't uninstall with a complex password and that's it. The password is so complex and long that it's way too much trouble to unblock app to use it.
Thats one way to do it!
What dump phone (verizon) would you recomend?
Literally anything, don’t overthink this part
I went from having a main phone and "music phone" to one old phone for an year. Besides not being able to listen to music with airpods on or opening the disappearing messages on IG, I didn't miss anything. Definitely more peaceful, your thoughts will just flow and they are not all over the place.
And tbh thats what its all about, just making some space in our brains for more peace, thought and self-reflection.
Hey man, I want to start a YT channel where I want to talk about Space. But I dont speak that well and fluently. Can you please guide or give me some tips on how can I over come these constraints, books, podcasts, anything please.
Follow Elon Musk
Just do it, don’t worry about anything else. Go and make 1 video that’s it
The very things invented to help us are the very things that hinder us
Indeed, we just need to find a way to stop that from happening
this is why i don't like it when phones make the notification dots be red. Google Pixel colors them with a bit of a lighter tone than the app icon itself.
They are meant to get your attention, so they make them as obvious as possible
@@KOKOTHELOCO Yeah they are, that's what I don't like.
But they're still useful as at least on a pixel, they're just barely different in color from the app itself
Great video thank you. Instant subscribe
Thanks for the sub!
atomic habits is one of best books ive ever read
Same here, top 5 for sure
bro looks like he knows everything
I am good at deception lol
I just turn off data and wifi
Simple is best sometimes
Surely you must have lived in the UK since a young child considering your accent is 100% southern english haha
Yup since I was 14
Not 100%
@@folksurvival how is it not? Sounds completely natural to me
@@northernswedenstories1028 There must be something wrong with your ears and/or brain then I guess.
high quality video
Thank you
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Unfortunately alot of us tradies rely on our work phones to recieve our jobs and to do all the admin including timesheets on our phones. Ours phones are our office and there is no way of getting around that. Knock knock, reality is at the door!
I understand that for sure, that's why it is difficult to manage this palm sized thing. It is become a part of us, and there are always ways to make it so it is a positive rather than a negative in our life.