Jordan Kim

Honestly and these bundles are just the streaming giants' way of roping you back in with 'savings' that still line their pockets. I switched to one and yeah, saved some cash, but then realized half my guilty pleasures were on the chopping block - goodbye obscure indie flicks. It's like choosing between pizza toppings. you save money but miss out on the weird ones. If your watching habits are as sporadic as mine, maybe rotate services monthly instead. Saves more in the long run, and keeps things fresh without commitment issues.

Thought I was curating art and ended up backing up 600 blurry menu pics and a whole series of my left shoe. The only thing that saved me was making a dumb rule called Five Per Event, everything else gets binned without mercy. Also killed auto save from every chat app and used the Screenshots filter to mass delete that nonsense. Still salty at how many storage nags I get, but this stuck.

I treat notifications with a whitelist and batching approach. Set up DND or Focus schedules for Work, Personal, and Sleep with only family, boss, calendar, and 2FA allowed, and enable repeat callers to break through. Everything else either delivers silently or goes to a summary so the lock screen stays calm while truly urgent stuff still pings. I also mute group chats by default, use mentions only in work chat, and give VIP contacts a distinct tone so I can ignore everything else on autopilot. On iOS, go to Settings then Focus and create Work and Personal, tap Allowed People and Allowed Apps to whitelist, turn on Time Sensitive and Repeated Calls, and add schedules. Sleep Focus lives under Health then Sleep. Then go to Settings then Notifications then Scheduled Summary, pick noisy apps for the summary, and set two or three delivery times. For Mail, make a VIP list in the Mail app and in Settings then Mail then Notifications choose VIP Only, and for Messages or WhatsApp mute group threads or set them to Deliver Quietly from the thread info. On Android, open Settings then Notifications then Do Not Disturb, set People to allow calls and messages from starred contacts, enable Repeat callers, and add work and sleep schedules. Star your key contacts in the Contacts app, then per app go to Settings then Apps then the app then Notifications to turn off unneeded channels or set them to Silent, or long press a notification to demote that channel. Use the Gmail app settings to set Inbox notifications to High priority only, and use Digital Wellbeing Focus mode or the Work profile toggle to pause social apps during work hours.