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You win, I canceled my Light Phone 3 pre-order. (self.minimalism)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by citrusface to c/minimalism
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Okay.

I had a good long think. I was doing the ADHD thing to try to fix the ADHD thing.

I was searching online for an alternative and I found a free launcher for android (I have a pixel 6a) called Olauncher. (Olauncher is FOSS btw)

Long story short - my phone is now a Light Phone Pro

Here's what I did:

1: install Olauncher.

2: color correct my phone to grayscale.

3: delete all of superfluous apps (ie things I can get to from the browser- duckduckgo)

4: use Olauncher to hide all the baked in apps and duplicate apps (apps that show on the home screen/pull-down shortcut and in the applist (mostly system apps))

5: turn off ALL my notifications save for txt and phone (and Instagram - my wife sends me things there, I don't use it, but I like to see the things she sends me.)

6: installed a matte screen protector

7: Turned on Night Light and Extra Dim, and keep them on always.

After all of that... I have gone from a phone trying to grab my attention from 100 different apps to a distraction free phone black and White eye safe phone with 20 total apps between the home screen and launcher.

So I canceled my Light phone pre-order and bought a new synth module instead.

If this sounds cool or helpful or you want a more detailed write up with screenshots, I'd be happy to detail it further.

Okay bye!

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[–] HalfAHero 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for this! I preordered a LPIII. Going to try this out and see if this takes care of my needs.

[–] citrusface 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Asleep

Lock screen

Home screen

You get to messages and phone by swiping left or right respectively

App drawer (swipe up)

There are only like 3 other apps in the drawer, I renamed them all put them in sections.

Pull down (swipe down)

This is where I get to settings and a few other apps I hid.

Other things to note:

You get to the clock / alarm by tapping the clock, same for the calendar.

You get to hidden apps by doing a long press and then tapping Olauncher at the top, but I means, you should try to get rid of as many apps as you can - once you start deleting it gets easy to keep doing it.

[–] citrusface 3 points 4 months ago

Gimmie a few minutes and I will take some photos of how it looks since I can't screenshot the launcher home page