For all the times over the years that I've wanted to reduce my phone usage – changing launchers, going grey scale, removing apps – I find myself so mobile-centric that it feels strange blogging on the MacBook. I'm so used to viewing things on the smaller screen and working within those confines.
It has its downsides, however. Seeing the blog on a larger device makes me realise how little I write sometimes and how the small screen always makes it feel like more.
Not limiting myself to essay style posts, having more of a focus on microblogging, has done wonders for ensuring more consistent posting but I feel that it has become too short-form in nature. The blog works exactly how it's supposed to, with each day being constructed from its fragments, but it often feels like just stray thoughts and notions, nothing particularly concrete.
The same issue plagues the Journal, which I keep telling myself I need to treat more like Morning Pages, to be somewhere that is more expressive and observational than its current matter-of-factness.
I have an idea of where the problem lies: I don't make enough time and space to be alone with the words, to let them flow and reveal themselves. It's something I desperately want, and need, to remedy.
@colinwalker I don't know if this will help you, but ever since I I kept my essential apps on my Home Screen and everything else in my App Library my phone usage has dropped significantly. I think the fact that I have to actively search for apps has helped cut down on my usage.
I'm actually okay with my phone usage now. I have hardly anything installed – only essentials – with the bare minimum on my homescreen. It's not the time sink it used to be and I just enjoy using it as my primary computer.
@colinwalker Scary and close call, glad to read you're all clear.
Definitely a relief. I don't I'll be going in to the office this Thursday as usual, it's not worth the risk.
@colinwalker can't blame you, I still don't like going in anywhere at this point. Even more so with Omicron.