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Simpler way: just turn off notifications. Look at it when you have time and you want to, not because your phone beeps.

Ideally notifications would only be used when your work colleagues or family members are trying to reach you, not for some random person's comment.

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I have all notifications turned off except for telegram on my phone. That's quite nice. And there's no vibrate or sounds, my phone is always on silent. I check my email plenty enough. I don't need notifications that I have emails. Not looking at Facebook or Twitter anymore, cutting out Reddit, and only looking at hacker news, also helped a lot.

I did this followed later by uninstalling all social media apps. I use their webpages instead but i log out when i don't want to use it anymore, like closing a door. Really effective. I am off Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. I only open Facebook once in a while to see if my kids parent group have written anything.

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