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0 pointsdjhn8mo ago0 comments

Normalize checking notifications 1-3 times per day.

Once in the morning, once after work, once some time later in the evening if you feel like it.

During working hours there’s rarely any reason to touch or check your personal phone (and in many professions you simply aren’t able to).

During after-work hobbies and/or family time you are for obvious reasons unable to have your phone on your person (it’s in a locker room, or you’re playing with your kids) or unable to pick it up (any creative or performing arts, or you’re having family dinner).

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mrweasel8mo ago

I have reasons to believe that my sister works like this. We joke that she has "office hours". She will rarely answer messages or calls that she does not expect right away. Then at around eight in the evening, every other days or so, messages will start trickling in.

At first it was a bit annoying, but once you know that she works like that it perfectly fine. I'm starting to think that she's doing modern communication correct.

inanutshellus8mo ago

Knowing there'll be a delay in response if you text also makes using your phone as a telephone have value again, too...