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Ask HN: How do you make the best use of a smartphone?
- patatino 6y agoGood: - Making phone calls - Text messages - Calendar - Mail - Occasionally looking stuff up on the internet - Maps - Payment - Reading Bad: - Almost all entertainment stuff (social media, games, reddit, ...) Sometimes I lie to myself about how little time I have, when I look at the daily screen time of my phone I see where that time goes.
- approxim8ion 6y agoI use it for phone calls, instant messaging, podcast listening, payments, and maps. Everything else is on some other device. I try to put off casual browsing to the desktop unless i have something important to look up. Reading is on my Kindle. I keep most infinite scrolling and social media apps off my phone.
- karmakaze 6y agoExactly this + Spotify.
- leokennis 6y agoFor me it's mainly about using the unique strengths of a phone compared to other devices. For example: - My phone is always nearby, has a microphone and an internet connection. This makes it ideal for capturing ideas and todos in an app like https://braintoss.com/ https://braintoss.com/. - However my phone has limited screen space and cannot have multiple windows open side by side, so for organizing my todos or expanding on ideas, I use a computer. And: - My phone has an easily swipeable touchscreen, so it's well suited to triaging incoming e-mail. - However my phone has a small and error prone keyboard, so for answering e-mail, I use a computer. Etc.
- karmakaze 6y agoBiz use: Slack, PagerDuty, 2FA