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title: Three months of self inflicted digital pain and how it changed my habits – A review of Siempo Launcher |
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title: A review of Siempo Launcher for Android |
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author: rhnvrm |
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author: rhnvrm |
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date: 2019-03-17T20:13:13+00:00 |
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date: 2019-03-17T20:13:13+00:00 |
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excerpt: "FUCKLast December, I decided to start an experiment and adopt a new launcher called Siempo apart from the OnePlus and Nova launcher that I'm used to since I started using Android. After three months, even though I have stopped using it, I have observed some changes and would like to share it with my readers who are also interested in digital well being. There has been a recent surge in people starting to restart blogging even though on closed platforms like Medium, but I guess it at least that is searchable outside from search engines, and hope to see more self hosted blogs following Hackernoon's recent split. Apart from this, people like me who were active social media users who now realize the downright issues with platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat and their algorithms, and are no longer interested in being driven by them throughout their day. In this article I talk about my experience with it and how it changed my usage habits." |
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excerpt: "Last December, I decided to start an experiment and adopt a new launcher called Siempo apart from the OnePlus and Nova launcher that I'm used to since I started using Android. After three months, even though I have stopped using it, I have observed some changes and would like to share it with my readers who are also interested in digital well being. There has been a recent surge in people starting to restart blogging even though on closed platforms like Medium, but I guess it at least that is searchable outside from search engines, and hope to see more self hosted blogs following Hackernoon's recent split. Apart from this, people like me who were active social media users who now realize the downright issues with platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat and their algorithms, and are no longer interested in being driven by them throughout their day. In this article I talk about my experience with it and how it changed my usage habits." |
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url: blog/2019/03/17/a-review-of-the-siempo-launcher/ |
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url: blog/2019/03/17/a-review-of-the-siempo-launcher/ |
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- notes |
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- notes |
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- android |
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- android |
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- digital wellbeing |
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- digital wellbeing |
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## Three months of self inflicted digital pain and how it changed my habits |
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Last December, I decided to start an experiment and adopt a new launcher called [Siempo][1] apart from the OnePlus and Nova launcher that I’m used to since I started using Android. After three months, even though I have stopped using it, I have observed some changes and would like to share it with my readers who are also interested in digital well being. There has been a recent surge in people starting to restart blogging even though on closed platforms like Medium, but I guess it at least that is searchable outside from search engines, and hope to see more self hosted blogs following Hackernoon’s recent split. Apart from this, people like me who were active social media users who now realize the downright issues with platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat and their algorithms, and are no longer interested in being driven by them throughout their day. In this article I talk about my experience with it and how it changed my usage habits. |
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Last December, I decided to start an experiment and adopt a new launcher called [Siempo][1] apart from the OnePlus and Nova launcher that I’m used to since I started using Android. After three months, even though I have stopped using it, I have observed some changes and would like to share it with my readers who are also interested in digital well being. There has been a recent surge in people starting to restart blogging even though on closed platforms like Medium, but I guess it at least that is searchable outside from search engines, and hope to see more self hosted blogs following Hackernoon’s recent split. Apart from this, people like me who were active social media users who now realize the downright issues with platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat and their algorithms, and are no longer interested in being driven by them throughout their day. In this article I talk about my experience with it and how it changed my usage habits. |
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After surveying all the options, the only fully featured launcher (that was usable) I found was [Siempo][1]. An other notable mention was the Minimal Launcher but it did not have a free dark mode or even proper app search, making it unusable apart from phone calls and messages. I did not want to go to the extreme with this experiment so Siempo seemed to be the best option out there for Android. A few notable features of this app based on my experience are mentioned below. But before that, I must mention what I guess mostly the ideas on which the app is based on. |
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After surveying all the options, the only fully featured launcher (that was usable) I found was [Siempo][1]. An other notable mention was the Minimal Launcher but it did not have a free dark mode or even proper app search, making it unusable apart from phone calls and messages. I did not want to go to the extreme with this experiment so Siempo seemed to be the best option out there for Android. A few notable features of this app based on my experience are mentioned below. But before that, I must mention what I guess mostly the ideas on which the app is based on. |