Productive: Maps, check the stock market, read non fiction/Wikipedia, pay bills, translate voice or text written in a foreign language, use as a bike computer or GPS tracker, hail a ride/taxi, rent a bike, communicate with people.
Fun: Read books/comics, amateur photography/videography, puzzles, listen to music.
Purposefully left out apps that cause doomscrolling and addiction.
I don’t trust the phone browser anymore after I had it crash during a payment. The money was sent, but the token wasn’t sent back to the website.
Thankfully we now have instant bank transfers, so the state of the browser doesn’t matter.
Anyway, I still prefer to take out the laptop for serious stuff like payments.
Productive: Maps, check the stock market, read non fiction/Wikipedia, pay bills, translate voice or text written in a foreign language, use as a bike computer or GPS tracker, hail a ride/taxi, rent a bike, communicate with people.
Fun: Read books/comics, amateur photography/videography, puzzles, listen to music.
Purposefully left out apps that cause doomscrolling and addiction.
I don’t trust the phone browser anymore after I had it crash during a payment. The money was sent, but the token wasn’t sent back to the website.
Thankfully we now have instant bank transfers, so the state of the browser doesn’t matter.
Anyway, I still prefer to take out the laptop for serious stuff like payments.
Big purchases must happen on big screen.
Yes, addiction is not fun. Reddit is not fun and neither is using drugs.