I took me a decade to develop a healthy relationship with my phone and this is my personal insight: It's really good at delivering anything mind numbing, repeti

I took me a decade to develop a healthy relationship with my phone and this is my personal insight: It's really good at delivering anything mind numbing, repetitive, low effort. Anything that fits those criterias can bring out the good from the smartphone. Memorization fits this perfectly. Learning vocabulary of a new language with an App like Anki, which tracks and gamifies your progress was a tangible improvement in my life. Anki is like an addictive mobile game to me now. Always a tap away. But the result of the interaction with that addictive app is a positive one. Memorizing, passing exams. If my mind is foggy and in no condition to do anything productive, clicking "mindlessly" in Anki is a time filling, low-effort, yet positive task, with data backing up that I actually am memorizing and recalling new things. I am not proud of the 4 digit hours I spend in counter strike on steam, but I am in the 3 digit hours I spend doing vocab. Paradoxily I look forward to long waits in the train station or at the doctors office, because I get more time in this positive feedback loop.