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My newest anti-screen acquisition is just a very cheap, waterproof Casio watch. This thing does a lot with just four buttons: it will tell me the date, has all the days of the week programmed into it, and you can set timers and use it as a stopwatch, too. I like using it enough that if I branch out into a nicer digital watch I'll probably stick with Casio so as to use the same software.

I probably will want a prettier analog watch too, at some point, for special occasions. I want one that shows the moon phase because I think those look so nice!

My justification for purchasing the watch is currently, when I want to know what time it is (I often want to know this) I pick up my phone. Then I see notifications. I remember I made a post somewhere and I want to see how it's doing! I open my phone.

Like my ereader(s), the watch is technically also a screen, but I think we all agree it's not the same.

I've not done too well on reducing my phone time the last week or so because I've been setting things up on my homelab server and needed to look stuff up, or install apps that interacted with my self-hosted programs, and ultimately screen-use begets screen-use. I'm also not actively reading a book at this moment (having just read three in quick succession). But I'm hoping to make that a focus again, maybe add more rules to my Foqos set up. I am hoping the watch helps!

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