> I actually have a dream of one day going back to a flip phone... Do it. Sonim makes some absolute brick chonks of phones these days. > ...where I'll get an

> I actually have a dream of one day going back to a flip phone... Do it. Sonim makes some absolute brick chonks of phones these days. > ...where I'll get an AI call summarizing emails or messages that are important, as well as any relevant news stories where I can ask for more detail if needed. I just try to not have unimportant emails come in, though eBay can't be convinced to turn off their damned shipping notifications (or I've not found how to do it). The 1st of the year is a very good time to start wrangling your inbox - every email that comes in is either of value, or you figure out how to eliminate it. Unsubscribe from everything you don't really care about. And news summary emails are a thing. I route them and various Substack newsletters to my Kobo via Pocket. > The Internet is amazing, but honestly I don't know that the degree to which I personally engage with it is the ideal cost/benefit as opposed to using an intermediary. You get a lot of the benefits with far less use than most people assume sane. I check email via mail clients, when my desktop computers are on. It doesn't come to my phone. I'm off instant messengers most evenings. And I turn my cell phone off at night (which also leads to, on the Sonim XP3+, about two weeks of useful battery life). Just start.