> When I look at my computer, I see a device not designed to help me with these goals. I constantly check email, messages, read toxic forums which I guess is pa

> When I look at my computer, I see a device not designed to help me with these goals. I constantly check email, messages, read toxic forums which I guess is partly because of being alone and lonely. Hard to make friends after college. Seems impossible to make good ones. This doesn't sound like a computer problem so much as an attention / habitual problem (perhaps even addiction to the noted distractions). That said, there are numerous aspects of MacOS designed specifically for this... 1. MacOS has its do not disturb functionality, use it. 2. You can also hide your dock so you're not seeing those pesky red dots constantly. 3. Leverage the virtual desktop functionality of your OS. On MBPs, 4-finger swipe functionality makes it extremely smooth to switch between desktops and use "Mission control" to peek at your open apps for a given desktop. Have one virtual desktop set up for browsing/communication apps (Safari or Edge + slack, discord, email, etc), then additional virtual desktops for your other, more focused tasks, e.g. your text editor of choice, design software, cad software, or whatever else. On my 'main' virtual desktop, I use Rectangle (window position management) to have Edge on half the screen, with chat applications on the right upper/lower quarters). Then on my second virtual desktop I'll have VS Code on half the screen, and Terminal / Finder in the quarters on the right, Maximized Fusion360 on the third, etc...