When using the Apple Watch, I can happily keep my iPhone in my bedroom the whole day. I don’t feel the need to get my phone cause my watch will notify any calendar appointment or important messages (I block or mute most apps/messages).
Before that, I was always with my phone and was always checking it all the time. Either because I got a notification, was worried I missed a notification, was just bored, or just trying to procrastinate others activities.
The Apple Watch is fortunately still really limit device. I think of it as an old dumb phone. So there isn’t much you can do in it. There isn’t even a whatsapp app for example. So it doesn’t grab my attention for long.
Without a smart watch, the flow for all my notifications is "notification -> take out phone -> (probably) use phone". With a smartwatch, the flow for the majority of notifications becomes "notifications -> decide it's not urgent -> leave phone in pocket".
I don't understand, are you saying that having a smart watch allows you to leave your phone at home? How so?
Whenever I see a friend with a smart watch I'm under the impression that they look at their notifications more rather than less than when they didn't have one.