Story time: The plan is to check my email, and all of a sudden, I’m on YouTube watching a Galaxy S26 review, jumping between various apps based on the plethora of notifications I received, and checking the results of the last F1 race — go Kimi. A task that should take me two minutes turns into an hour of mindless online activity, and the worst part is that I forgot to check my email in the process.
A phone is a wonderful tool, but it can also be a distracting one. And since I have a habit of picking it up mindlessly all too often, I try to reduce that as much as possible by setting up five things on every Android device I use. While these don’t prevent my trips down various rabbit holes 100% of the time, they do minimize them and save me a lot of time and mental energy in the process that I can use for other activities, boosting my overall productivity.
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