Title How to Break Up with Your Phone

Author Catherine Price

Year Published 2018

Kind of Book Self-help/Productivity

How strongly I recommend it 5/10 

My Impressions Good content, but it could have been a blog post. This is a practical guidebook for creating a healthier relationship with your phone. The book offers strategies for setting up your phone in a way that helps you attain your values rather than distracting you from attaining them.

Date Read circa 2020

Practical Takeaways

• Turn all notifications off

• Put social media apps in boxes that make them harder to get to

• Don’t have social media on your phone. (Download it once a day and check it)

• Keep your phone in another room or another part of the room when you are working

• Turn your phone on Airplane mode when you are working

• Use the timer so you don’t have to worry about losing track of time or checking the time every couple of minutes

• Use greyscale (black and white) to reduce dopamine addiction.

• Use nightshift to reduce blue light at night

• Put distracting apps on the back pages

• Don’t sleep with your phone in the same room.

• Use apps that tell you how many times you check your phone, apps, time spent on phone

• Put rubber band around phone to make you more aware of every time you look it

• Don’t check your phone when you’re out with friends, family, partner. Just be with them.