LEAVE YOUR PHONE
Ways to leave your phone and still take the note
Leaving the phone is easy. Keeping the note is the hard part. These are the ways people try.
01
Leave it and trust memory
The thought is gone by the time you pick the phone up again.
02
Record the memo, then pocket it
The phone still had to be in your hand.
03
A speaker in the room
You can leave the phone, and you also have to stay in the room.
04
Say it into the cap
The phone stays in the pocket. Alia has the note on iPhone after.
See the cap
Leave your phone
How to leave it and still trust the note
The phone wins because it is the only place people believe a note is real. To leave it, you need one other place that you will actually check. If you will not check it tonight, you will go back to the phone tomorrow.
Make the rule small. The phone stays pocketed while you are moving. The review happens when you sit. You are not quitting the phone. You are refusing to let one sentence turn into a scroll.
Say the sentence into something already on you. A cap works for that. Alia, on iPhone, keeps the note for the review. No subscription.
Questions people ask
Do you have to stop using your phone? No. You have to stop using it as the capture button while you are trying to stay with the task.
What if you are waiting on a message? Leaving the phone is about the note, not about ignoring a person. If someone needs you, the phone is for that. It does not also have to be the notebook.
Where do you read the note? On the phone, later, when you chose to open it. The point is that opening it was not required to save the sentence.