A digital break for your free evenings
Constant notifications, news and social media feeds keep your mind on alert all evening and leave less room for recovery. This guide focuses on your free time after the working day; screen time before bed has its own guide.
You will need
- A smartphone and its digital wellbeing settings
- A list of the apps that eat up your time
- A book, crafts or another screen-free activity
Steps
Find out your current use
Check your phone's screen time or digital wellbeing report to see how much you use your phone between 17:00 and 22:00 and which apps the time goes on. Note which moments feel restorative and which feel draining.
Cut your notifications
Schedule a free-time mode
Keep the news to one moment
Move apps further away
Choose screen-free evenings
Try a social-media-free day
Agree on shared ground rules
Assess after two weeks
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