Okay.
I had a good long think. I was doing the ADHD thing to try to fix the ADHD thing.
I was searching online for an alternative and I found a free launcher for android (I have a pixel 6a) called Olauncher. (Olauncher is FOSS btw)
Long story short - my phone is now a Light Phone Pro
Here’s what I did:
1: install Olauncher.
2: color correct my phone to grayscale.
3: delete all of superfluous apps (ie things I can get to from the browser- duckduckgo)
4: use Olauncher to hide all the baked in apps and duplicate apps (apps that show on the home screen/pull-down shortcut and in the applist (mostly system apps))
5: turn off ALL my notifications save for txt and phone (and Instagram - my wife sends me things there, I don’t use it, but I like to see the things she sends me.)
6: installed a matte screen protector
7: Turned on Night Light and Extra Dim, and keep them on always.
After all of that… I have gone from a phone trying to grab my attention from 100 different apps to a distraction free phone black and White eye safe phone with 20 total apps between the home screen and launcher.
So I canceled my Light phone pre-order and bought a new synth module instead.
If this sounds cool or helpful or you want a more detailed write up with screenshots, I’d be happy to detail it further.
Okay bye!
Thanks for this! I preordered a LPIII. Going to try this out and see if this takes care of my needs.
You get to messages and phone by swiping left or right respectively
There are only like 3 other apps in the drawer, I renamed them all put them in sections.
This is where I get to settings and a few other apps I hid.
Other things to note:
You get to the clock / alarm by tapping the clock, same for the calendar.
You get to hidden apps by doing a long press and then tapping Olauncher at the top, but I means, you should try to get rid of as many apps as you can - once you start deleting it gets easy to keep doing it.
Gimmie a few minutes and I will take some photos of how it looks since I can’t screenshot the launcher home page