Offline activity suggestion: try to go as long as it's possible/safe for you without looking at your GPS, next time you're going somewhere. Or, easier mode: try navigating using a physical map and not your phone.

Whoops, already missed the first month 🫠 I'd like to say it's because I was very offline, but that only applied to the first half of February for me, alas.

Use this post for things that for whatever reason you feel don't warrant their own post, like:

• small vents about how every bar know wants you to scan a QR code for the drink list
• quick questions/requests for recs
• all barely on-topic chit chat

Do you have some new year's resolutions that are related to digital minimalism? Here's the post to share them.

I managed to get my hands on a serviceable flip phone, so I'll attempt to daily drive it as much as possible, which I'm hoping will also have the effect of making me finally learn how to get across town. It's still got maps and GPS, so I don't run the risk of getting completely lost, but I can't just follow my me-dot around the screen like I'd normally do with my smartphone.

• The AIR method by Justin Hanagan - Stay Grounded. A five-step resource to help gradually cut your screen time on "bad" apps and replace it with "good" apps, with the final goal of reducing it altogether (but you can just stop at phase IV if you want to be less radical). The rationale being that say, your RSS feed reader doesn't have as much stimulation and gamification built in to keep you glued to the screen as your average Meta app.
• Reclaim your brain: a free Guardian newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone by Catherine Price. Price is the author of How to Break Up With Your Phone, which I didn't love (it was a bit meandering) but I liked these e-mails. The good thing about the newsletter method is that you'll get nudged: it's five emails, sent every Monday for five consecutive weeks, with a task to do to make you think about the way you use your phone and be more mindful about it in the future. The bad is that it'll also send you solicitations for donations to The Guardian, but hey, fair enough, it's a free service.
• The 30-day method from Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, summarized here by Nat Eliason. Not technically a free resource, but this summary gets you most of the main ideas from the book + the step-by-step of evaluating which technologies to cut from your life, starting with a month-long full detox. Also the one not specifically aimed at smartphones, although most of what Newport's case studies wanted to get rid of was their excessive scrolling. I still found reading the full book pretty useful, because it's filled with direct testimonies and progress updates by Newport's followers, and their different needs and consequent solutions helped me better understand my own.