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It's this minimalist launcher that helps get rid of your internet/screen addiction. I've tried a lot of different apps but I like this the most. Before going into an app you have to select how much time you'd like to spend in (on?) it, & when the time is up, the app is closed. Also!! you can block any app for a certain period of time. What I like about this is that you CANNOT go into the app after you've blocked it, like, you can't simply get rid of the timer or add more time. I've currently blocked instagram and pinterest for a week (as an experiment). We'll see what happens!
Also: you can choose the color and the font.
Dec 29, 2024
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It’s an app that you can use to block certain apps on your phone that has helped me greatly decrease my social media time without quitting cold turkey (though I’m trying to do that too, recently). I have it set so that I can only open instagram 7 times a day in 5 minute increments. I spend much less time doomscrolling but can still look at things my friends have sent me, etc.
Jan 21, 2025
this app has singlehandedly helped me get off my phone bc it forces you to take a deep breath before you go on whatever app you wanna restrict and then asks if you really wanna do that…
(I don’t)
Jan 29, 2024
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this app has helped me so many times in instagram addiction.
sometimes its annoying, but overall it is fantastic. so many stupid dms not sent. a secent amount of reels-spirals avoided.
the free version basically intervenes everytime you open instagram, and asks you to take a breath. you take a breath in, out. its not counted in numbers, but a slow simple visual. then it asks if you want to continue to open instagram, or close it. it makes everytime i open the app INTENTIONAL.
I really love that its not a countdown. I have experienced the breath as taking 14 seconds, or sometimes just a second and a half. i have no actual idea how long the breath thing is, even though its always the same, because I always experience the length different depending on my phone addiction vibe.
****FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS WHEN U DOWNLOAD THE APP!! do not just download it then forget it!! I downloaded it then let it sit in my phone doing nothing for months when i first got it. i almost forgot about it but once it was implemented, i loved it. You can apply the app to any app you want, not just instagram.
posting bc i am going to temporarily take off one sec to see if i can do without it. going to miss whenever someone asked me to do something on instagram, then we took a breath together. slowed down moments mid-conversation. maybe ill implement myself..
May 17, 2024
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I recently listened to Unknown Pleasures again. I'd forgotten what a hauntingly beautiful album it is. It really takes you to this phantasmagoric & grey Manchester; not to all its post-industrial hopelessness, but rather the human heat and vulnerability of the post-punk scene.
When I turned 20 a friend recommended that I give Joy Division a listen. I had seen T-shirts with the album cover in it, but I'd never listened to anything by them (admittedly because I thought people who wore said T-shirts were quite annoying). My friend took away all of this apprehension of mine when she told me a bit of Ian Curtis's story and recommended I read a chapter in "Ghosts of My Life" by Mark Fisher talking about the band.
The first time I listened to Disorder I wept, jumped, danced, cried. The music came as if from a distant radio, the sound mystifying and electric, sending shocks through the body, making the heart pump blood in beat. I didn't live what Ian Curtis lived. Argentina is astronomically different from the UK, the 21st century very different from the 20th. But, nonetheless, I think in these times of generalized feelings of impending doom, we're all searching for a guide to come and take us by the hand.
As I always say, at times where the hopelessness gets heavy, there's nothing quite as heart-wrenchingly freeing as dancing to Joy Division.
Dec 21, 2024
It's summer right now in the southern hemisphere & the city streets are scorching hot. I like to imagine I'm in the film Wild at Heart by David Lynch, cruising through the desert with my crazy lover. Very very weird on top.
Dec 22, 2024