Stepping away from digital media for some time can be incredibly helpful, and even though I realize that, I don’t do it quite often enough. I wrote about taking a #DigitalDetox a while ago, but it wasn’t something that became a regular part of my schedule. Still, stepping away helps with creativity, mindfulness, and introspection. It also helps in making time for off-screen activities, like reading actual books or observing my surroundings. The fact that I found myself “doomscrolling” instead of doing some yearly planning in the early days of 2021 and Taylor Reneau’s recent video “Why You Should Quit Social Media” have given me additional motivation to do this again. So, here’s my plan:

• Unless I have a prescheduled activity at night (which I want to limit to two nights per week), I will turn off any devices at 21:00 and only turn them on again when starting my work, so no phone in bed!
• Once a week, I try to stay offline for at least 24 hours. With my current schedule, doing that from Friday to Saturday afternoon (roughly 15:00 to 15:00) should fit best.

Following this schedule is my monthly goal for January. I’ll let you know how it worked.

Also, I’ll keep the Disable Twitter Feed add-on that I created for Firefox enabled on my computer. By the way, the same add-on is now available as a Chrome extension.