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Experimenting with simply not picking up my phone at any point during my morning routine. Not offline, just not phone-centric. So far, a week in, my ability to Be Present and Get Things Done (mostly by means of being less interrupted by the *habit* of the phone) is much improved.
Ironically, my "get off the phone" timer interrupted this 
. Techniques I'm using or re-using:
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for alarm and morning audiobook during workouts (the latter required switching from Audible to Apple Books to become reliable)
- to off-phone voice recognition to start morning news podcasts in kitchen/dining room (pointers on Cali/SF news podcasts welcome!)
- increased detail in my morning recurring TODOs to take advantage of the focus
Gaps:
- I'm pretty dependent on the phone to add tasks quickly to my TODO manager. Breaking out the entire iPad for that is... not great.
- Playlists for morning news podcasts are not great. I'd love to listen to *today's* California Report, followed by *other* podcasts, rather than going back to the previous California Report (often from weeks or months ago). Haven't figured out a good approach on this.
@luis_in_brief I tried a similar experiment and these gaps drove me bananas. I want my iPad to greet me in the morning with the todo list already launched and focused on an appropriate perspective, and I don’t think the APIs exist for this
@glyph for that particular need, you might try the iOS focuses + widgets? You can basically say “from hour X to Y, I want my desktop to show only this one widget”?
@luis_in_brief hmm maybe I need to think more outside the box here by combining personal automations, home automations, shortcuts, and focus schedules
@glyph the yak, it has so much hair
(But seriously I do think there’s a lot to be said for putting this sort of thing on autopilot, especially if like me mornings are… rough)
@luis_in_brief I often leave my phone in my room while I have breakfast. I only keep it at my desk because it's my authenticator.
@pnorman I would like to figure out how to keep it more away from my desk. I could definitely stand to do an audit of SMS 2FA to replace it with something not quite so phone-centric, but that will only go so far.
But one step at a time. I can fight that fight in, say, January. :)
@luis_in_brief @pnorman I use an old phone withe cheapest SIM I could find. It also serves an alternative router for when the ISP router goes down.
@luis_in_brief Put it across the room, get it for 2FA, and put it back. It's good to get up and walk, and once you get out of the habit of checking it all the time it's easier.