Three tips to cut down on our digital dependence

I found in an article named “Is digital minimalism the answer to our distracted lives?” on Fast Company three tips to reduce digital addiction that could be useful to anyone who is already a bit tired of digital technology...

1. Schedule your internet and email use. You could technically eat all day long, but most people don’t. They eat only a few set times a day. So treat your intake of digital information in all its forms the same way. Rather than answering every buzz or beep the second you hear it, set certain times to check email, social media, etc. To train yourself to overcome this Pavlovian response, try waiting five minutes after a buzz, beep, or ding before reaching for your device. Then increase this to 10 minutes, 15 minutes, and so on.

2. Develop a ranking system for your email. Sort your emails into categories like important and urgent, important but not urgent, and neither urgent nor important. This ranking system ensures that your brain is not overburdened with unnecessary or irrelevant information.

3. Give yourself clear “online hours.” The root of the problem with information overload is that some kind of device is likely always within reach. But that doesn’t mean you have to use them every waking hour. Set an alarm for when you’ll shut down every night (ideally at least an hour before you go to bed so you can decompress).

Palm co. has also begun to communicate its Palm phone on the corporate site and Twitter as a smartphone for kids, and when it comes around and around, it makes sense.

The device itself is thanks to dimensions very well-controlled by kids, fits well into the children’s pocket, is water and dust resistant, and gives parents the ability to track the position of the phone and the time spent on the display.

For me it is ok, perhaps only the price of equipment could be more favorable…

This is why @palm is great for kids: ✅ Fits in tiny pockets ✅ Parental controls (apps, contacts, & web) ✅ Location tracking ✅ Monitor screentime ✅ IP68 pic.twitter.com/yB271Xr3lB

— David Woodland 🌴 (@DavidSven)

May 7, 2019

On the original Palm Pilots PDA, Graffiti was used to write text. The devices did not have touch screens, just a small pad on which you wrote with a plastic pencil letter by letter in a simplified form, which was called graffiti. With the advent of touch screens and keyboards, however, this way of writing has been dropped and perhaps even forgotten.

There is graffiti writing possibility on Palm, and I took it as a link to old times, we have a Fleksy keyboard, right? But I didn't realize that for a lot of people - maybe half the world, it could be by far the most comfortable and fastest way to write ...

Palmなのでこれはやっておく必要があると思った。久しぶりにGraffiti入力したけど意外と覚えてるな pic.twitter.com/0DEn0H0uJM

— おがちょ (@ogacyo) April 29, 2019

A little special review in The Inquirer
Palm makes a comeback with an, er, credit card-sized smartphone,Phones ,smartphones

The Inquirer has released a review of stand-alone Palm and they all like it. But as far as I am concerned, there is something strange in the review:

In terms of storage, the Palm Phone and 32GB of internal storage and also microSD card slot, expandable to 256GB, which is quite impressive for this device. It's powered up via USB-C and includes all Bluetooth connectivity options such as Bluetooth and WiFi.

I don't know, but I wouldn't put the microSD card in there instead of nano sim. There is no way elsewhere!