Field notes
Research summaries, methods that survive contact with a normal week, and honest notes on what a minimalist phone does and does not fix.
One change per day for seven days. No deleting Instagram, no dramatic announcements, no willpower budget. By Sunday the phone behaves differently and you have not had to argue with it once.
Read the pieceSix popular interventions, ranked by what the research says rather than what the blog posts say — including two that work far better than their reputation, and one that mostly buys you a feeling of having done something.
You do not need a Light Phone, a Nokia or a second SIM. Almost everything people buy a dumb phone for can be built out of an iPhone in an evening — and undone in ten seconds when life needs the full device back.
Set it up tonight. Judge it by how the first week feels, not by what a landing page told you.
Free · iOS 17 and later · No account, no tracking.