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I used to use it for reading novels. Is that productive? I guess I've finished a word document once when I needed to without access to a pc

My laptop is broken so I run my business on my phone. I use shopify, create advertising posts, buy supplies, etc

All valid uses. I wasn't clear, but I had meant more along the lines of using apps for productivity. For instance, some people use focus or distraction timers. Others use checklist apps or mood apps that track your behavior over time.

I have a fitness app, a sobriety app and a bunch of work stuff like outlook and skype and financial apps. 

The most productive thing I do with my phone is not using it. 

Turncoat said: 

The most productive thing I do with my phone is not using it. 

I tend to agree in most regards. Part of why I made this thread is that I was wondering if there might be some untapped potentials I was unaware of.

Tryptamine said: 

Turncoat said: 

The most productive thing I do with my phone is not using it. 

I tend to agree in most regards. Part of why I made this thread is that I was wondering if there might be some untapped potentials I was unaware of.

I'd see more potential from it if I was stuck with transit on a bus or train for it's room to be used when you might otherwise be doing nothing, but other than the usual status update or game or whatever only ones that really stick to mind are apps for learning languages (Memrise), apps for playing the stock market (Robin Hood), some basic music, art, and notepad apps to get ideas down before they're gone, and those IQ exercise apps people have been peddling (closest I go there nowadays is Wordscapes). 

Everything I'd be using my phone for I could do better on my laptop, and I don't myself have much downtime these days where the phone would otherwise be ideal. I otherwise see my urge to check IMDB at my convenience for example as unhealthy within the same strain as my urge to check my watch every five seconds; outside I'm better off without it. 

My trip to Japan also phone-haunted me a bit, it's worse there than it is here. 

I have this powerful and expensive piece of technology that I barely use, except to make calls and maybe check on the weather. I must be missing out on something, considering I prefer the laptop too out of raw computing power and the physical keyboard.