[00:02] of the nokia brick i used when i was in high school these the way we live increasing convenience through useful apps maps texting games and access to information
[00:16] however you probably realized already they're the biggest procrastination tools out there and they take away hours and hours of spending more productively in this video i'll go over a few simple and actionable
[00:29] on how you can turn your smartphone into a productivity machine and allow it to benefit your studies and work rather than hold you back through procrastination the first tip is to maintain simplicity
[00:41] you want to use and actually need this means deleting apps from a long time ago that you haven't used in a very long time and no longer have any need for it you also want to keep your useful apps at
[00:53] and these can include apps like your google maps your phone and your contacts and your messages as well as things like spotify or access to your furthermore i like to keep some apps on the sidebar for easy access as well
[01:07] use every night before i sleep and every morning when i wake up amount of time you have to sit through your phone to look for what you're in a very short amount of time and this compounds every day you use your phone
[01:21] for the apps that are bad and you don't really want to use this can just be things like straightforward deleting procrastination for me this hasn't involved just straight up deleting the facebook app
[01:33] and also the instagram app for my phone so if i ever wanted to access these i'd first have to swipe up and then find my google chrome app and there which is just an additional step to try
[01:46] morning when i wake up for other apps for example snapchat and google searches sometimes will need to talk to friends or just search for important things on uh what i'll do is instead of deleting them right away
[02:00] not from the home page steps before i can actually access it and then i've also just straight up i did want to play a game just because i felt like it and was bored or
[02:15] then i have to re-download the whole game log in again and everything like that to get my progress back and this just stops me from doing that on my phone except for a few puzzles and problem solving games and then again
[02:29] these are also hidden from view the next tip is to reduce distractions off notifications for apps that keep spamming you and also pretty much all your messenger apps except for the very essentials this
[02:41] means i've turned up notifications for everything except for my email and my messenger so for all other apps i've pretty much just turned off because what they do is just spam me and distract me from what i actually want to
[02:54] at that point in time however i do keep notifications on for my gmail because that i need to reply to for example for work but what i do is i'd unsubscribe to these kind of sites are trying to just send to me and
[03:09] spam and unsubscribe so i make sure to stop for apps such as messenger which can be mostly important if someone something urgent has happened and a friend needs to talk to you or
[03:21] something like that there are other times when things aren't very essential so what you do then is make sure you meet those conversations to stop getting all the time that just distracts you from your work or your studies
[03:33] an example of this is just my chat with dinette and because he just sends me all this random useless stuff all the time he's muted indefinitely so those are the steps that i use to turn my phone into the productivity machine that it is
[03:45] hopefully you guys can take something out of this video that you'll implement into a productivity machine as well this means you'll just be spending less time being distracted and just procrastinating
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[04:11] and i hope to see you guys in the next video