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My personal remedy Yesterday I fired up a Nokia 6310i as my main phone and put my SIM card in it. I setup a Zapier zap to SMS me when I get an important email

My personal remedy Yesterday I fired up a Nokia 6310i as my main phone and put my SIM card in it. I setup a Zapier zap to SMS me when I get an important email (as defined by Gmail filters). I've now realised how FEW important emails I get but how often I used to get mail notifications (a lot). Now my data apps on the smartphone only have access to Wi-Fi resulting in far fewer notifications. My notification settings are already quite restrictive on all apps. Notifications and messaging are governed by a 2-way awareness. If people know you are contactable (e.g. by watching the little blue tick in Whatsapp) then they'll contact you more and spend more time checking to see if you've read their message. If they know it takes 10 hours for you to respond then can choose their channel more appropriately. I've not yet had to use Google Maps for navigation (requires data) - lets see how that turns out on my next long distance car trip. Pain in the arse that I am now carrying 2 phones, but lets see how my experiment pans out. Might be a total car crash (figuratively speaking)

emilburzo 10y ago
Why not just uninstall everything except Gmail from your phone? Bonus: your battery will last longer. I like to keep the two worlds apart, if I'm at my computer I am reachable by any means of digital communication. If I'm not, I only have gmail on my phone (with a lot of filters so that only time sensitive stuff reaches my actual inbox, the rest is filed away under labels for later review). I tried having some chat apps on my phone, but I had way too many interruptions from whatever I was doing, and I wouldn't have been able to respond with a coherent message anyway. Or maybe I'm just getting old.
- tonylemesmer 10y ago
  I guess its because for chatting with my wife (when we're in separate places I might add!), friends and occasional work project stuff Whatsapp is great to have. Email is clunky and sending attachments for ephemeral but important stuff is inelegant. Twitter DMs are no better than SMS except that you can compartmentalise those users by not giving them your phone number. I've never had Facebook messenger or the Facebook app and I've recently deleted my Facebook account entirely. SMS, email, Twitter DMs, Whatsapp and telephone are my limit but trying to pare this down further without losing some of the utility I infrequently enjoy. In the mid 90s I was in my late teens when I got my first candybar phone. The sparkly lights of smartphones for the last 10 years have now lost their shine. I guess I'm nostalgic for the good old days of SMS and phone only whilst I'm away from the office.
JustSomeNobody 10y ago
Download HERE maps. You can download the maps and use it offline.

emilburzo 10y ago

Why not just uninstall everything except Gmail from your phone? Bonus: your battery will last longer. I like to keep the two worlds apart, if I'm at my computer I am reachable by any means of digital communication. If I'm not, I only have gmail on my phone (with a lot of filters so that only time sensitive stuff reaches my actual inbox, the rest is filed away under labels for later review). I tried having some chat apps on my phone, but I had way too many interruptions from whatever I was doing, and I wouldn't have been able to respond with a coherent message anyway. Or maybe I'm just getting old.

tonylemesmer 10y ago
I guess its because for chatting with my wife (when we're in separate places I might add!), friends and occasional work project stuff Whatsapp is great to have. Email is clunky and sending attachments for ephemeral but important stuff is inelegant. Twitter DMs are no better than SMS except that you can compartmentalise those users by not giving them your phone number. I've never had Facebook messenger or the Facebook app and I've recently deleted my Facebook account entirely. SMS, email, Twitter DMs, Whatsapp and telephone are my limit but trying to pare this down further without losing some of the utility I infrequently enjoy. In the mid 90s I was in my late teens when I got my first candybar phone. The sparkly lights of smartphones for the last 10 years have now lost their shine. I guess I'm nostalgic for the good old days of SMS and phone only whilst I'm away from the office.

JustSomeNobody 10y ago

Download HERE maps. You can download the maps and use it offline.