I got a nice set of wired headphones and a portable music player (Snowsky Echo Mini). It’s been great. I don’t feel the need to have the phone beside my bed as much and I can go out with my phone on me, but switched off.
I’m thinking about what other use I could separate from the phone, but I think for me that music was the main one. Podcasts would be harder because of how frequently they update.
I’ve also found having a Rubik’s cube on me as well as a yo-yo has kept me off my phone even longer.
What do you think would be a substantial use case you could separate from your phone?
I’ve been using smartphone since the first iPhone, btw. It’s just I quickly realized how toxic they were, the huge risks they were for our privacy too, and decided to I needed to maintain as much distance as possible and therefore quickly learned to barely rely on my phone at all, and only for what I have no choice, aka IDs, security and banking, taxis/Uber (those two not being strictly required but a real pain to not have with me for when I need to get one).
The idea for me being to only use for what’s required (in my case: ID, security, passwords, taxis/Uber) and leave all the rest to other tools.