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It’s been over a decade since the first iPhone came out, launching the smartphone revolution. Since then smartphones have gone from a novelty to a necessity in our daily lives, and as the smart phone has grown more and more ubiquitous so have concerns about the addicting behavior associated with the smartphone.
In this episode Kyle & Mark tackle a method touted by productivity bloggers to help with smartphone addiction. According to them you can control your smartphone usage by simply going into the settings and setting your device into grayscale / monochrome. Viola, addiction and distractions averted! Can making one simple change in your phone’s display really work? Find out our review of Mobile Monochrome.
Resources & Fun Stuff
- Invisible Women
- The Water Dancer
- Brene Brown “The Power of Venurability”
- Forest App (iOS, Android)
- “Will turning your phone to greyscale really do wonders for your attention? ” – The Guardian
- “Change Your Screen to Grayscale to Combat Phone Addiction” – LifeHacker
- Take Control – Center For Human Technology
More from The Productivity Lab
More from Mark & Kyle
- Mark’s personal website: askmark.io
- Mark’s Instagram & Twitter
- Kyle’s personal website: quadrantnine.net
- Kyle’s Instagram & Twitter
Credits
Logo & Branding
Design for The Productivity Lab is provided by Adam Dodson Designs
Music
“Getting it Done” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2 Comments
Forest App Review – The Productivity Lab · 2019-12-30 at 4:01 am
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Ten(ish) Apps We Can’t Live Without – The Productivity Lab · 2020-01-20 at 11:12 am
[…] last week’s review of Forest and the episode before it on the Mobile Monochrome method, we’ve explored apps that are supposed to limit our phone usages. Instead of trying to avoid […]