From the course: Taking a Break from Your Phone

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Curate your phone apps and home screen

Curate your phone apps and home screen

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Curate your phone apps and home screen

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- Let's move into some hands-on work. Specifically, setting up your phone to make it easier to set boundaries and remain focused. We'll do this by creating different homescreens to show the app you need, depending on where you are, or the time of day. Because the process for setting up homescreens varies, depending on the device you're using. I recommend doing a quick search for: How to add or remove homescreens. And then list the name of your device and operating system. For each homescreen, you're going to only add the apps that are appropriate for that situation. Now you can do this according to either the time of day or location. Now in my example, I'm thinking in terms of time of day. Starting with an Anytime homescreen. And that includes the persistent quick app bar at the bottom. On this homescreen, I have my phone, text messages, my note-taking app, Evernote, and my calendar. I also have shortcuts to call my…

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