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Re:Regaining control of your attention by vorotato on Friday January 13, 2017 @02:46PM (#13394079)
I turned of notifications of all kinds 99% of them were not worth clicking. I do periodically abstain, but I when I do use I try to stay self-aware. I mentally keep track of how long I've spent, and what I spent my time doing. I then periodically ask if I thought the previous 15 minutes was spent doing something I was interested in or if I was just on autopilot / guided by clickbait. I still use my phone a LOT, but I definitely am doing more of what I enjoy, and reading things that are more meaningful to me.
Re:Regaining control of your attention by iak8god on Friday January 13, 2017 @04:42PM (#13394955)
All good tips.

I've been using QualityTime (Android only, I think: http://www.qualitytimeapp.com/) to measure and track usage daily. Seeing it quantified was a bit of a shock even though I thought I was doing a good job of mentally monitoring myself.

Re:Regaining control of your attention by kentt on Saturday January 14, 2017 @10:02AM (#13398657)
Thanks for the recommendation. I'm going to try that out. On the Desktop I use RescueTime which has helped a bit.