This drives me crazy. I'm in a flow, distraction free via the full screen and break it to see what date or time it is. Even on a multi monitor setup. Which usually ends up meaning I get pulled out of that flow because I see a new notification on some other app or because I grabbed my phone to check that info.
Do you never check your phone and realize you are now suddenly doing something completely unrelated?
Phones are focus breaking by design. It takes effort, silencing them.
Yes. Does that invalidate the fact?
> Do you never check your phone and realize you are now suddenly doing something completely unrelated?
How is this relevant? But, no, as it happens, I don’t.
> Phones are focus breaking by design. It takes effort, silencing them.
Maybe your phone. Those who get an addictive phone may get addicted, and it does take effort to break an addiction.
To me it's not about a couple seconds that takes me to look at my phone. It's the inability to have it on all my monitors just like all other DE. And it's not only the time. You can't access your notifications, your app indicator icons or anything you add to that top bar through extensions.