📵 Digital Minimalism in 2 Minutes

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This week: Let's chat about digital minimalism.

Gone are the days of your phone always buzzing, your inbox bursting, and having more tabs open than you can count. Let's declutter and reclaim your digital sanity.

🧘 The Philosophy of Digital Minimalism

Digital Minimalism is about focusing on what truly matters in our tech savvy lives.

You don’t want to ditch technology, but you want to use it in a way that aligns with your goals, values, and well being — removing aspects that don’t contribute to these objectives.

🔕 Digital Minimalism Quick Steps

Here’s how to get a streamlined digital environment that lets you focus more and stress less 💆

🛑 Minimize Notifications

This one’s obvious — turn off non-essential notifications. On both iPhone and Android, you can do this under Settings → Notifications. Keep only what's critical. Also, turn on Do Not Disturb during focus periods. You can even customize your own Focus Modes with specific notification settings and time periods to automate it all!

📨 Declutter Your Inbox

Unsubscribe from newsletters that don't add value (except this one hopefully 👀), use labels and folders, and archive emails that no longer serve a purpose. Make it your goal to always maintain inbox zero.

🩶 Go Grayscale

Switch your phone to grayscale mode. It's less stimulating than color, which makes scrolling through social media and mindless phone-opening less appealing. On iOS, you can set up shortcut to quickly toggle Color Filters off and on from your home screen (tutorial here).

🗑️ Delete Non-Essential Apps

Review all the apps on your phone and computer. If you haven't used an app in the last month, either delete it or remove it from your home screen. For iPhone users, you can offload unused apps without deleting them, keeping your home screen clean without losing any data.

🖥️ Build New Browser Habits

Close tabs you don’t need, and keep your bookmarks tidy and minimal. If you haven’t used a bookmark in the last month, delete it. Browsers like Arc even automatically archive unused tabs in the last 24 hours or your specified time period — taking the thought out of it all (it’s one of our go-tos).

🦾 Use Voice Assistants

Configure your voice assistant, like Siri or Google, to handle tasks like checking the weather, reading news highlights, or turning on Do Not Disturb. This will help you reduce your focus leaks.

🎯 Set Usage Goals

Whether it's Screen Time on Apple devices or Digital Wellbeing on Android, use built-in features to set daily limits for apps that often sidetrack you.

🖥️ If you haven't yet, check out Flocus: our new, free, browser-based dashboard built for focus and ambience with aesthetic backgrounds, a Pomodoro timer, focus playlists, and more!

Here's to being the master of your digital domain 📵

Until next Sunday,
Flocus Team