Screentime

I have a screentime app on my phone that tracks my screentime over the last week. Sadly it doesn't go back further than that, but oh well.

Over the past week here are the screentimes:

• 24th June: 6h 54m
• 23rd June: 8h 02m
• 22nd June: 4h 23m
• 21st June: 4h 45m
• 20th June: 4h 06m
• 19th June: 7h 30m
• 18th June: 2h 35m
• 17th June: 3h 39m

Whoa. The absolute lowest by a good margin was the 18th, and that was still 2h 35m.

The daily average was 5h 28m. I spent a good quarter of my last week on my phone.

I've wanted to reduce screentime for a long while, but it's sort of fallen by the wayside recently, and I haven't been focussing on it. Turns out, I probably should have been! Now, some of it will be valid of course: two hours spent on e-mail, fine. One hour spent on Whatsapp (surprisingly less than email!), fine. One hour spent on my clock, not sure how that happened but fine. One hour spent in notepad writing blog drafts, journalling to myself, also fine. One day five hours in Brave (let's be honestly, mostly on Youtube)? Less fine.

I think it would be good to aim for a low screentime, like say an hour or less per day, where I can.

Funny how much it can creep up, though. I also think I've not been feeling the most fantastic recently, and I imagine the phone doesn't help.