I find myself checking out pretty often and just making myself feel bad about the state of the world, or killing half an hour on stupid games that I could 100% live without. This is probably pretty common, and I’m wondering what other people have found as a way to do more productive things with their phones in the downtime.
I mean… there’s porn
And stock quotes!
Productive is not what I’d call what I do but anyway: I don’t follow things that make me miserable or even just “people”. My feeds are full of all kinds of fun stuff, like my fandoms or science or art. So I don’t ever “doom scroll”, really, but read about what other people thought about that newest episode or some new thought they had about an ancient episode or general fan squealing about a ship or the newest weird findings about spinosaurus or ‘look at these new photos Perseverance has taken’ or ‘look at this detail in this awesome painting’ or ‘this is how to improve this aspect in your drawings’.
Yes I am on tumblr. Yes I am on tumblr too much.
Maps.
Look up word etymology. Also kanji and language studies. You don’t need a language program like memorize, you can just study words.
Listen to ABC Listen podcasts and live. Listen to my music. Listen to audiobooks.
Camera. Photos and occasional video. I have been photographing some of my garden, same plants each day to show growth.
Stay in touch with friends and family on Telegram, or just with a phonecall.
I know people who use their phone for money but I don’t do that. It does contain my drivers licence though. I prefer the licence itself, that said, I don’t want to hand over my unlocked phone.
I mostly listen to music, read ebooks, take notes in class and work on termux, actually most of my time on my phone is spent on termux connecting to my servers, Essentially my phone is a pda with remote access
-Get a lot of spam calls and texts
-Read e-books
-Keep email notifications up to remind me to check them on desktop
-Watch Youtube to fall asleep
-Listen to my work in progress songs between working on them, take notes on what to do next
I don’t find much use for a phone. Mobile banking and web browsing is pretty much all I use it for. Don’t worry about being productive its a never ending hill to climb. Do what you need to do then enjoy the rest of your day
learning spanish on duolingo because of travel plans
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I read. I will typically have a ‘big read’, a couple of other novels, a non-fiction and maybe a short story anthology on the go at any one point.
Remote into one of my desktops to get stuff done. Check email. Research for some upcoming project I’m planning.
Learning languages with Duolingo, journaling, cooking apps, crosswords, browsing the Ikea app (but that could be considered doomscrolling - the doom of my bank account)
With Inoreader I plugged in a bunch of RSS feeds of gaming news and stuff related to my hobbies. I like it because there is no comment section to engage with unless I really go out of my way, which I have no desire to. I get all of that out of my system here on Kbin.
What I find interesting is I was able to get one feed from a sub that doesn’t really exist in many forms on the Internet that I know of. I figured with the API fiasco that it wouldn’t work, but it does. It just spits out a text version of new posts for me essentially. Very useful for keeping up on VGM vinyl news.
