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Moving to ‘offline’ part 3

Posted on by JTCHlife

Last time I wrote about adiction, focus mode and that I used to control my phone use. Today is the last part and I will write about the objects I use instead of focusing on my phone.

Calendar

The first object I brought myself to try going offline was a calendar and it seems like a easy task for some people but for me then it was hard since I never had one before that was not online. I have tried a few apps as calendars on my phone like Tiimo (ADHD calendar app) and Fantastical to name a few but there was always something wrong so I ended up using the default app as I felt home there. My search made me recall an old app I had on my phone which is an app where you write everything down on some special paper in a book and then you can scan it to your phone. The app still excisted but had stopped selling the books for the writing so I went hunting again and found Bambook. Bambook had an awesome calendar so I had to have it and that too had the ability to scan my notes to my phone. For now I have not scanned much but I feel it is great to have the option plus the writting comes off with water meaning I can reuse it many times. I am still having a bit process of filling it out with the future plans so I can use it completely but just the feeling of writing something in writting instead of keyboard felt magical and I wanna do things again

Life planner

The second object I got was a life planner which I bought together with the calendar since I felt I would need somewhere to plan my less digital life and other parts of my life. I have made 4 goals that I am trying to aim for this year and I will use the life planner to get there.

Whiteboard

I am not sure if I missed it at first ort what happened but aftera few months of trying calendar and life planner I felt I wanted to get a better overview of my things so I went to bambook again and I have now a monthly view on m y freezer together with weekly mealplaner, to-dos and a small whiteboard. So now I am ready to complete my life one month a time while have in all in one place plus they have sticky notes as well so every major plan like my boulders or scouts can now just move without I have to rewrite every detail.

Final conclusion

I will still use them online versions as backup while slowly moving more and more to the offline versions, so my phone, apple watch and other devices will be important tools and to abe able to contact the world but never be my entire life again.

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Moving to ‘offline’ part 2

Posted on by JTCHlife

Last time I wrote about screen time, one sec and forest that I used to control my phone use. Today I will write a bit about addiction since I have learned a bit about on myself.

Addiction

Many apps these days send us millions of notifications to make us check them often and it is one of the things that keeps us at the phone, plus many of those notifications is streaks, meaning they try to make you access the app at least one time a day. I am working on myself to avoid those notications so my phone only will be used on the good stuff. There are in my opion 3 ways to avoid notifactions from annoying apps.

Manuel

You can go inside settings for each app and remove notifications from the apps and that way avoid it more. But at least on iOS you have something else.

Focus mode

On iOS you can use something call focus modes which is a way to block certain notifications from appearing at certain times. I find it really helpful since once it is setup then things works very automatical and once the focus session is up your notifications will appear on your screen.

At the moment I am having normal, sleep, work, fitness, mindfulness, people, scouts and do not disturb. Each mode covers a certain aspect on my life since you can make as many you want and it is easy to switch between them. I highly recomend setting it up since it is an easy way to avoid certain notifications at certain periods of your life and there a lots of cool settings like block all people, some or none… decide if it is certain apps you wanna block or only those apps you wanna hear and other cool stuff.

Deletion

Another thing you can do to avoid notifications is to delete apps as most apps is also able as websites meaning you can avoid the notifications for good and only access the website when you need it. I have done so with my reddit app so these days if I wanna go a reddit I have to open it on the website where one sec I talked about also works,

To make sure I use my phone for the good things I will look at my apps and focus modes at least once a month since there is no need to have lots of unecessary apps on your devices since it is better to have room for your pictures and such. This marks the end of part 2, let us see what my mind have in store for part 3.

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Moving to ‘offline’ part 1

Posted on by JTCHlife

Today I start my series of moving to ‘offline’ that I have been trying to create since the start of January. Let us dig in my past first, I am a very digital minded person since I have never been good socially in person unless in my safe areas like home or work. Secondly, I have also been very bad at writting since I often have spelling mistakes or forget words completely when writting something plus I was very slow. This combi made me use a computer a lot and I recently started to feel ‘dead’ inside the computer world so I decide to try move offline. Don’t worry I will still be here and other places but might cut it down a bit which leads me to my first attempt book calendar and lifeplanner. I got them late last year and I could feel that writing down in them help me wanna do things again and not feel ‘dead’ like before. I will talk more about those in my later parts because today I will start by screentime.

Screen time

Screen time is how much time you use on your device daily and if you have an iPhone, the settings is also called ‘screen time’ and that is where I begun. The screen time allows you to see what and how much you use the phone, guess most people use it to control their kids but I will use it for myself and since I do not have any kids I will ship that part.

Step 1: Control

Before I felt ‘dead’ by online then I have on a longer period felt that I have used way too much time on Reddit so when I found an app named one sec which works by ‘blocking’ the apps and websites you do not want to use a lot I was happy. It ‘blocks’ your apps and website by pausing your action for amount of time to be sure you wanna go there. It helps me a lot but I have been a bit lazy lately so I just ‘unblock’ it. But together with screen control it can become even better since then you can tell yourself that you only want an amount of time inside that app or website. So that is my control.

Step 2: Cut down

Starting today (4. Febuary), I will cut down my reddit use to 30mins a day, and at the moment I will allow myself to use all my apps and such on my phone for 6 hours a day on screen meaning if I do not use 6 hours figuring out what song I wanna hear I can hear unlimited music. if I have freinds online and they wanna chat I will go past that time but other unecessary apps I will avoid. To help me focus on things around me and things I will do I will also use forest app which helps me by planting a tree and block my access to unecessary apps for a period of time while killing the tree if you fail.

Step 3: Goal

My goal for all of this is to return to the ‘offline’ world and be more alive again. So I wanna go down 3 hours of phone use, plant lots of ‘trees’ and be more alive in real life

That was end of part 1, the apps mentioned is some created by other people that I have found and paid for by myself.

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Back

Posted on by JTCHlife

January was a bit too much for me with all kinds of things and including sickness with cold but now I am planing to be back again and will try to be here 3 times a week. The post Wednesday will a post about becoming less digital and more analog. Guess that was all to share.

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Snack

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What snack would you eat right now?

I love foods and to try new ones, so to say something different than normal I would like to try balut the duck egg thing from the Philippines.

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Greatest Gift

Posted on by Ria Kusuma

What is the greatest gift someone could give you?

Jesper: I was thinking a long time for my answer since there are a few good ones like ‘time’ , ‘wealth’ and so on but I ended up picking ‘being understood’. I picked being understood because I feel that to respect and understand people’s differences since none of us is the same person, not even twins. So being understood is very important to me since if you don’t do an effort in understanding the person in front of you, do you really care about the person? I am always trying to understand the person in front of me but sometimes I fails because it is hard for me to ‘read’ everything correctly and sometimes I fail to put the right words together making it seem like I don’t understand things. But I can truly say that in my mind you are unique meaning that I don’t care if that if there are a million people who smoke like you as long you try to understand me then I don’t mind that and I hate to put people in boxes with other people since no one is the same. I know that it might sound like I don’t care but in reality I care a lot as I see you as you and since I try my best to understand you then you know why I am picking ‘ being understood’.

Ria: with no doubt my answer is “time”. Time is very precious. When someone gives you time, for sure you are very important for them. They love you. People wont invest their precious thing to people who arent important for them. When someone has no interest in you, they wont spend time or give their time for you. They will make excuses to meet you or communicate with you. But if they are excited with you, they will appear often in your life, willing to make or spend time with you. If you are their priority, they have lots time for you. If you arent their priority, their presence will be little. So time is the greatest gift someone could give to me.

We also need to give time for people we love. For example parents give time for their kids. A husband or wife gives time for their spouse. We listen to our friend’s problems. We support and visit family members who need help. We pray for people who experience natural disasters, and many more. All of them use time.

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Happy new year

Posted on by JTCHlife

Back to rock 2026 but today I am so tired after New Year’s Eve so I just want to give you a sneak peak telling you that next week, hopefully Monday, maybe Thursday I will post about becoming less digital since my major New Year’s Eve resolution is to become less digital and become more analog.

Jesper

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Eating meat

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What are your feelings about eating meat?

Well I heard that this subject is a little sensitive to some people so let me start by saying I am eating meat and I eat everything else since I am not a picky eater at all. As for my feelings then I have nothing against vegans and many dishes of vegan food taste good so I am not against it at all. I also respect that people can be vegan and guess the main reason I am not vegan myself is because I am so fond of all kinds of food that would not like to miss if I did it. People can eat whatever they want as long it is legal but I have 2 questions I want answered myself?

  1. Why are some vegan going so crazy they try to shame people into stopping eating meat, if you did that to me then it would make me eat more meat.
  2. Why does vegan dishes often look similar to meat version of the dish, I get it is hard to make a burger with meat and without meat look different but why is the dishes so similar? Does it have to be or is it because so many vegans are not vegan by choice but need to ‘force’ it

Guess that my opinion on meat and I have vegan friends and it doesn’t change anything about them.

Bon appetit

Ria : i am a pescovegetarian. But i am ok if my family or friends eat meat. Jj even often cook vegan food. And thats cool. We all free people. Vegan cant force non vegan to be vegan. And non vegan cant force vegan to be non vegan. Just respect each other.

While there are many researches said meat has nutrition needed for our body, i choose to not meat because i love animals. So far my body is still okay and healthy. I feel more healthy because i often felt pain in my back neck when i was still eating meat. But all depends on our own body. Just know our body and choose proper meal and diet style for us.

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