Experimenting with simply not picking up my phone at any point during my morning routine. Not offline, just not phone-centric. So far, a week in, my ability to Be Present and Get Things Done (mostly by means of being less interrupted by the *habit* of the phone) is much improved.
Ironically, my "get off the phone" timer interrupted this 🧵. Techniques I'm using or re-using:
- 📱➡️ ⌚ for alarm and morning audiobook during workouts (the latter required switching from Audible to Apple Books to become reliable)
- 📱➡️ to off-phone voice recognition to start morning news podcasts in kitchen/dining room (pointers on Cali/SF news podcasts welcome!)
- increased detail in my morning recurring TODOs to take advantage of the focus
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Gaps:
- I'm pretty dependent on the phone to add tasks quickly to my TODO manager. Breaking out the entire iPad for that is... not great.
- Playlists for morning news podcasts are not great. I'd love to listen to *today's* California Report, followed by *other* podcasts, rather than going back to the previous California Report (often from weeks or months ago). Haven't figured out a good approach on this.
@luis_in_brief I tried a similar experiment and these gaps drove me bananas. I want my iPad to greet me in the morning with the todo list already launched and focused on an appropriate perspective, and I don’t think the APIs exist for this
@glyph for that particular need, you might try the iOS focuses + widgets? You can basically say “from hour X to Y, I want my desktop to show only this one widget”?
@luis_in_brief hmm maybe I need to think more outside the box here by combining personal automations, home automations, shortcuts, and focus schedules
@glyph the yak, it has so much hair
(But seriously I do think there’s a lot to be said for putting this sort of thing on autopilot, especially if like me mornings are… rough)